Started the chop today!!!!!!!!

[PORKCHOP]

im looking forward to more progress pics.

 

[bob w]

Gonna be a fine looking cab when you're done.

 

[harleyboy]

OK. Here we go again

I got a little more work done. It's shaping up real good.
From this

To this

 

[harleyboy]

 

[Bonehead]

It is really coming around, it is going to have a great look to it.

 

[harleyboy]

One door top finished

Finished one door top with a piece from a doner door. The other one will have to be pieced with the pieces of my door.

 

[harleyboy]

Plenty of this.

 

[chopper tom]

lookin good !!!

 

[harleyboy]

Well, I got a chance to work on the truck a little more yesterday. I pulled the radio out and there was a big ugly hole left so I welded a piece of 18 ga. behind it and filled it with fiberglass. Ive got some good ideas for the dash and I think it will look real good. I'm going to go with some 4" gauges that I got out of a lowrider S10 that I bought for parts (pics later) and fill in the 6" holes where the regular gauges went. I'm going to put 4 2" gauges where the speaker hole was on the dash. I got all the fiberglass on the top and then put the skim coat of bondo over the whole top. It's really starting to take shape now.

 

[sakustoms]

looking real good HB. Sanding bondo is so much better than grinding metal. I hate going home with metal dust all over me.

Keep posting pics for us to enjoy.

Eric

 

[chopper tom]

lookin real good man ,almost got your firt chop done !!!gota fill good about that!!!

 

[bob w]

I wish I would have seen your nice chop job before I did my Grandson's '38 GMC. I ain't never posting pics of my first chop! Keep up the great work.

 

[Gastrick]

The chop is coming out real nice harleyboy. I like the look a lot.

 

[Tripper]

Lookin' GOOD!!!

HB,
Man... that is really lookin' good. Congrats... that's gonna make a *nice* rod!

BoB

 

[tiny1]

The chop is looking real nice harleyboy!!

 

[monzadood]

harleyboy. was the glass good in your stock gauges? i need one peice if its available. chop is looking killer.

 

[harleyboy]

Did most of the sanding tonight. I've got just a few low spots to fill and fix a place over the drivers door and maybe I'll be able to primer it the first of the week. We're going to try to do the top to match the rest of the truck and leave the paint (or lack of) just the way it is. I was going to try to completely blast all the sheetmetal and paint base coat clear coat, but I think I'll be more satisfied with the original signs on the doors and the original paint. After all I'm a RATBOY. HB

 

[Gastrick]

Looks good HB. I like the idea of leaving the bottom like it is. Especially with the history behind the truck.

 

[rustywrench]

wow your chop turned out good harley. i too would leave the door paint alone. old lettering is cool.

 

[chopper tom]

harleyboy. was the glass good in your stock gauges? i need one peice if its available. chop is looking killer.

if your talking about the round glass for the gauges ,i may have one?