Chevy pick up restoration

[tech69]

I should have gotten more pics of this white one in the repair process but it's just bodywork and prime and block once. We specialize in these pickups.









I'm currently doing another one and it's an out of stater and has to be perfect. It's going red. I'll take some pics before we prime it and after paint and will post in this thread.

[Len]

Did you have much rust damage? Over headlamps or door bottoms or cab corners?

[tech69]

Did you have much rust damage? Over headlamps or door bottoms or cab corners?

cab corners and an after market door due to rust. Common on those I see. Headlamp area was fine. The one I'm working on now had both cab rear corners replaced and welded into place with being welded in wrong and it enlarged the door gap so I gotta run a bead down the door

Those fricken cab corners are a pain to work with filler, especially the top section!

[another2centsworth]

try welding 1/4" square stock on the door edges to tighten the gap up.

[tech69]

it's just a driver resto. We did some welding for this one though.



this back was mangled. Lots of metal work just to get it manageable.




This door needed a little work after primer. should be good next round.





All in all I learned for the 1955 the UPPER rear cab end is a b*%&! A thin layer of epoxy is not enough to block on it and determine where the body line is cause it's so round as opposed to the door that butts up to it. You have to mud/and/or primer it and block on it before you prime the whole cab n doors to get a good read. Too many dull non defined bodylines and different angles going on to get a good look at it with filler. It needs primer on it to really tell what's going on with it.

This was the first 55 I've done in bare metal and so the upper rear cab end got me and I didn't like what it looked like in primer and it bothered me last night. Without hesitation today I went straight for that cab end and got both sides looking really sharp and matching the door body lines. I'll post a pic of that and I'll take it tomorrow. I bet it'll look kind of cool cause the pic shows clearly what's involved...tape! Cause you can see the guidecoat traces on edges which will make a cool pic and good to show what's involved with those buggy bastards.

[MARTINSR]

The fit and finish you got out of those doors looks TOP KNOTCH! They fit like CRAP when new, you did a fine job on them.

Brian