Gear Head's 82 Pickup Build

Subbed!

 

I'm in greensboro. Gonna b in ws for the fight tonight at ljvm. I'm in ws at least once a week.

 

Awesome build! Subbed

 

Oh nice! I just moved from Greensboro to Winston. We'll have to get up sometime!

 

Made one of my ballistic joint hangars. Round cuts with a cutoff and grinder suck but I got it done. Don't worry, I'll plate the ends





Also, decided on a color.. desert tan!! Going to do a fender and see how I feel about it before buying like 15 cans haha. Was going to do OD green but wanted to try something different.

 

Here is some inspiration. I think it is rustoleum roll-on paint. Not quite desert tan but close.

 

Sounds like a plan!

 

Nice! Yeah that's almost white. Should I even bother with primer? I'm going to do a little of the rust converter primer for the pitted areas that a flap disc wont get but would regular primer even be worth my time? I'm not worried about getting the body perfect, just want good adhesion.

 

These are some of the pics that have me liking desert tan:







Normally I like a full bodied truck but this flatbed is sweet!

 

Oh yeah, this one too

 

You should do a combo of these two!

 

The lighter tan with the bedlined rockers?? I can dig it

 

Well, that too... Haha

But I was talking about the tubing on the first one combined with the flat bed on the second one.

 

I agree the exo on the first one is pure awesome

 

I see what you're talking about, that exo with that flat bed would be tits!! If I can pick up a welder and bender I might see what I can do.

I started sanding today. Just going to do one body panel at a time as I get time but here's my dilemma..



I went to the store to pick up some more paint and they have two tans and I couldn't decide so I bought one of each just to try. Left is "Sand" and right is "Khaki". I'm not sure which one I like better

 

I like the left one.

I bought my wheels from a guy with a desert sand colored sac'd pre taco. That thing looked awesome! The color choice will come out awesome I'm sure.

 

Desert sand is the way to go.

 

Desert sand it is

 

Since raw spray paint is an absolute bitch to keep clean, I think I'm going to flat clear the entire thing.