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Dedeye Mike, Did you know Danny from you tube? his username was Dedeye1, he had a lot of followers on there while building his rat rod truck, he was my best friend,like a brother,he talked me into building this truck because he had one,, then he up and died before I got it done!

Its alive,, put about 45 to 50 miles on it Saturday,, nothing broke[cl

A couple more pics Owls head transportation museum

first real trip and first car show this weekend It runs drives and stops,, turns a lot of heads,, rattles quite a bit but it was a fun time on Saturday!

A little update We had a heck of a winter so I didn't spend a lot of time on the truck but Im back at it, I will add a bunch more pics in the next couple days, I have a lot of vids on the build on my you tube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs6XBlFuTXMK17vNhY3QTiA

This weeks work Well it dont look like much but there were many hours put in this weekend, finishing up the windshield post, got one door top cut and fit, I got my wife to take a couple pics with me in it on the end

Welder Has the jacket been pinched or run over,,if its welding inside the feed mechanism then center is going to ground

Time to chop the top I decided on a 4" chop in the back with a 1/2 " slant, and instead of adding into the roof I laid the post back,,I haven't done a chop in about 8 years,,I forgot about how much work it is! I figured I would have it done this weekend but with a list of honey-doos I got going...

hood sides Well after I got the grill laid back like I wanted I had to re-shape the ends to match the slant![;)

hanging the hood and nose I did some experimenting with how much of a lean I wanted to put on the grill, I knew I didn't want it strait up like stock,,my grill had 2 bars broke out when I got it so I shortened the grill 2'' then took the extra bars from the good side and put them on the other...

shortening the bed 36 ford pickup bed,,craigslist find! took 14'' out of the middle

steering box -drag link still working away! she steers[;)

floors done! lots of hours

A little more flooring Made a drive shaft tunnel and a trans hump, got drivers side floor done, hopefully tomorrow I will finish the floor completely[;)

Yessa I know where your coming from Mike, I used to work at a hot rod shop and on more than one project a customer would spend in access of 120 k building a car with all the newest and coolest fiddle faddles and wiz bangs just to find out it sucked to drive because the chop amount (that they...