1987 V-10 Wooden Flat Bed

[87_Rado]

How yah doin guys, fairly new to the site here I've posted a few times and got some awesome help and feed back so I'm just trying to post up my truck to see if I can figure out how to get these pictures up so you guys can have an idea what I'm working on and how the project comes along I'll give some more info if I can get these pics up!

[zieg85]

Look for the attachments and other options button below the text box and click on that.  If it says your picture is to large you will need to resize it down to under 256K, I use the resizing feature in Paint and a 800x600 picture usually is under that size

[87_Rado]

Awesome thanks for the quick response! I just read the how-to on this in the tech section and I think I figured it out now, I'm uploading off of my cell phone so I'm using a bit different resizing method but I think I'll get it to work, I'm gonna gather up some pictures off the progress I've made since the first day last year and see if I can get some up!

[87_Rado]

Alright so here we go, here's my progress since the first day I picked it up right around this time last year. From New york, 1987 Chevy V-10 5.7 350, bought it from a local guy for 500 bucks not running. Says he was original owner and he strated working on it in later years (messed it up more than anything) then he gave it to his son and It sat for years before I got it as his son was supposed to be working on it now and that never worked out. So I got it in pretty rough shape and have spent any free time I've had all summer on it, here's how it was the first night I got it home and a few days after

[87_Rado]

Had some nice days and began to strip the frame down with a wire wheel and clean everything up and get ready for paint

[87_Rado]

Frame all painted up and ready to go, my intentions on this truck were to get it looking decent for as cheap as possible, frame was painted with a rust converter, several coat, and black rusto enamel rattle canned on several costs.

[87_Rado]

Next I started framing out for some kind of flat bed, bought pressure treated 2x4's and 4x4's and got to work, I also mocked up this "road warrior's" bumper the guy threw In with the truck. I took some measurments for some brackets to mount it permanent since I only had the bumper and no mounting hardware or brackets lol I got the measurments and had my buddy mill some bracket out of half inch steel, while he was getting the brackets done for me I decided to clean up the bumper and paint that with the same method as the frame, looks good, cheap and has held up well so far.

[87_Rado]

After that was finished up I began to cut the wood I would use the top or deck of the flat bed. I milled all the wood out of some red oak we dropped a few seasons back, this during was the milling process. Then let them sit a few days on saw horses and then coated them with a urethane. I used helmsman spar urethane 3 coats.

[87_Rado]

With the the boards all finished drying it was ready to start sanding and getting the cab ready for paint.

[87_Rado]

After many, many, hours of sanding with a cheapo walmart sander, the true colors started to show! Next was time time for a coat of primer, I did the infamous 50 dollar paint job on this truck and was very pleased with the results. I sprayed it with rusto rusty metal primer mixed with mineral spirits through a cheapo harbor freight gun.

[87_Rado]

Primer all sprayed on, starting to look a bit better!

[87_Rado]

After primer cured up it was time for the final color, the color selections at my local walmart was pretty slim. My options were like a smurf blue, smoke grey which looked like primer, school bus yellow, leather brown, or sunrise red. So...  I chose the sun rise red, sketchy at first but after it was sprayed on I really like it. It grows more and more each day and I was very pleased with the way the rustoleum sprayed on and covered!

[87_Rado]

And that's pretty much the state that I'm at fellas! The inteior is a work in progress, I'll try to get pics up later, but this is just a brief story of what I've done so far! There's a lot of stuff I didn't include and still a lot more to come so if there are any questions for me or anybody has any suggestions they think would be cool or help me out just let me know! I'm always open for suggestions and any help is ALWAYS appreciated! Thanks fellas!

[LTZ C20]

Looks good so far. The red looks pretty good.

[87_Rado]

Thanks man I appreciate it, first compliment on the truck haha its a work in progress, Now that I have the post started I'll try to keep posted here as I make progress.