1981 K20 "Custom Deluxe"

[81_Chevy]

And my two personal favorites. 

[81_Chevy]

Been working in the beast a lot recently... Got it stripped of all the extras like my light rack and everything 

Got it all stripped down and started welding in patch panels.

[81_Chevy]

Got the passenger side patch panel welded in.. Going to start grinding and laying mud tomorrow.

Driver side is pretty much ready for primer, just waiting in the patch panel for above the wheel well. Where all the mud is, is where we had to weld in some new metal since it was pretty rusted out.

On the inside of the pass wheel we sandblasted it and used plasti-dip to seal her all up.

More pics up tomorrow.

-Nic

[81_Chevy]

Here's the plasti-dip and then the patched welded in.

Plans for tomorrow are to finish body work on the drivers side and passenger side and either prep it for primer or start to put primer on it.

-Nic

[81_Chevy]

Body work mostly done on the pass side. Drivers side patch panel should be in wed or thurs.

[twosocks90]

Awesome truck. Keep the posts coming!

[81_Chevy]

got alot done lately, got the drivers side patch panel welded in and layed with mud. body work is about 85-90% complete. just got to do some final sanding and it will be ready for primer! dont have any recent pics, but tomorrow we will be working on it and hopefully primering! so i will get some pics then!

-Nic

[bake74]

     Nice progress, gotta hand it to ya for the amount of time you have to put into it, keep the updates coming.

[81_Chevy]

ill upload some pics today after school!

we had a pit of a set back before we started to prime, i was taking the bumper off and i was using a grinder to cut the bolts off the bumper hitch since were taking it off and they were pretty rusty. the blade got jammed and shot back against the bumper (inside) and the blade shattered and the grinder came out of my hands and fell on my leg just below the knee.. ended up going to the hosptial and had to get 6 stitches. cut my leg open pretty good.

luckily tho we got the truck in primer! 

[Irish_Alley]

had about the same thing happen to me but luckily i was using a soft wheel. kicked back top my thigh and grabbed my pants (work pants polyester) and it just eat them um and melted some to my thigh where it also eat some flesh not bad just enough to take a layer of skin off. after cleaning the melted crap off my skinned leg i got back to work with melted pants lol

[81_Chevy]

howdy y'all! ive gotten a lot done in the past couple weeks! we got everything wet sanded down two weekends ago and last weekend we got paint on er'. painted the charcoal grey on saturday and painted the white on sunday. ive got lots of pics from different angles, just havent had time to upload them yet. been insanely busy with work and school!

started putting on the mirrors and stuff back on as well. this weekend we are hoping to put the rest of everything back on like the hood, tailgate, cowl, tool box, etc. then we still have to finish making my new back bumper, then paint that, my headache rack, and front bumper the charcoal grey to match the lower half of my truck. pics will be up later tonight!!

-Nic

[81_Chevy]

Didn't get a chance to post pics up last night, i was having some problems with my network. ill try again later today!

-Nic

[81_Chevy]

Been owing some updates to my thread, so here they are!! The truck has been in paint for about three weeks now, it cured up really good. Here's the pics of when we were taping it off to paint the charcoal grey.

[81_Chevy]

Here's the pics of the rock guard and charcoal grey.

[81_Chevy]

Another charcoal grey pic, and then the prep for painting the white. All the painting was done in our driveway, outside.