BFA's "Back From The Grave" Resurrection build

Linex/herculiner or some sort of bedliner lol

 

speedway blue or white

 

if not bedliner, go with red or blue

 

I would do silver so you don't have to do the jams on the cab.

 

Should just throw on the bad from the parts truck as well if you do that. That would probably be the easiest way to do it and probably cheapest too since you wouldn't have to pay for paint/someone to paint it depending on how you were going to do it.

 

The problem with swapping beds is my tire carrier is welded in so that it makes it impossible to pull that off withough cutting the mounts I made.. plus I kinda like the damage on the bed corner. It gives it character lol so I'm. Going to do a cheap paint job and I've been toying with the idea of a satin or semigloss black and just rattlecan it up.. beats the shit out of my fingers but I'm pretty decent at spraypainting that I think I could pull this off.

 

I like the idea of a satin black... Or silver. Not blue or red. Blah.

 

I like blue and red. take it back

 

Black would look good but would the rattle can paint job start to chip and peel off?

 

Saw your build/accident!! nuts!!! hope all goes well!! by the way, your back sticker is awesome!!!!!

 

I don't think I could find/do a good job with a red or blue rattlecan.. but as far as it chipping sure it will eventually chip... but the nice thing is I can touch it up anytime with more spraypaint

I would rather keep ther silver but its kind of a hassle to try to get that tire carrier off.. ill figure it out I'm still 50/50 on painting or complete swap

 

Thanks! Lol talk to sockmonkey and get one too

 

I think swapping over both the bed and the cab would be easiest/cheapest in the long run even though you have to cut off the tire carrier. Also you wouldn't have to worry about sanding/prepping the entire truck.

 

ive got it all planned out...... yall will see lol

 

Hey just got caught up on your reconstruction. I wanted to suggest the whole copart thing if you have a broker it is really easy to buy a truck off there. I recently bought a 05 double cab TRD Sport with all the bells and whistles for $6,500. Until I bought the 05 I had always want to convert a first generation double cab to a 5 speed manual! Looks like you got a good truck though.

I sold my old 2000 tacome because I needed the 4 doors since my wife just had our first son. Buying my new truck off copart has really been a huge success.

My old Truck



My new truck, it actually looks a little better than this now but this is my most recent picture. You can look at my gallery to see what it looked like when I got it from copart.



I like to keep excel sheets of my total cost of my projects. I am just about through with restoring my 2005 with just some paint work and a driver wheel airbag to replace. I sold my old truck for $8,100 and I will be into this truck about $10,500. So not a straight across trade but it keeps me out of a car payment and now I have a back seat, not to mention my old truck had 175K miles this one only has 83K.

My point is though that you are on the right track. Once you complete this project you will probably never go back to buying a car the normal way. At least that's what has happen to me.

If I may suggest though instead of rattle caning your truck why not invest in a low end paint gun. Harbor freight sales them for $40~$60 and they are always on sale, also they don't require a 80 gal compressor since they are high pressure low volume. The benefit is you can buy some decent paint and you learn something new. It is bound to look better than rattle caning and it will last longer. Basically you have the perfect canvas to practice on and once you learn to paint you can really have fun with your projects.

Good luck with this project though I would not mind being in your shoes.

 

I have decided to replace the entire body of mine and stick with silver but ill draw up some more accurate plans and let you all know what's up

 

Sweet. Updates of everything you do. Pics!!

 

Well since I'm pretty much broke and stuff still I didn't do much today except napped after work hung out with a lady friend and finally got around to finishing that tent that has been taking forever to put up but I wanted to wait till the sun was below the roofline of my garage so I didn't get fried but now that's finished ill be picking up a nice bigass industrial fan and work on pulling off my bed tomorrow.. unless my friend comes through and gets this deal with the steel yard rolling and then ill be over there picking up myself 300ft of 1 3/4 .120 wall dom tubing for cheap.. hell yeah.

 

Then can i just buy what I need from you?