bikinkawboy
Well-Known Member
Here's some before and after photos of what I've been working for a little over a year now. First a little background. During the fall of 2011, a mountain lion killed about $8,000 worth of sheep. Without lambs to sell, I needed money for the farm payment so I started hauling off a bunch of old scrap cars. My already rusty '77 D150 had set unused for 16 years (getting even more rusty) and I considered hauling it off too, but I just couldn't bring myself to do so. It was my first 4 wheeled vehicle (already had a motorcycle), my (ex) wife and I had dated in it, brought the babies home from the hospital in it, hauled the kids around in as they grew up while buying Christmas trees and such plus countless other things. In the spring of 2013 my son (then 25) and I went to a Mopar show and there were some rusty, very ratty looking old Dodge pickups there. That got me to thinking about rebuilding the old Dodge. The same boy had taken a very well used '77 W100 in trade for a tranny job, which he gave to me. Somewhere along the way, I decided to rebuild the 1`50 and convert it to 4 wheel drive, which was the start of the very labor intensive build.
By winter I hope to have everything together and functioning except for the bed, which is in really bad shape. By the time it's all said and done, about the only thing I won't have replaced, reconstructed or repaired will be the title. I've kept a list of the stuff I've done and l already have 3 full pages. I think the donor vehicles list is up to 14 now. What I've had to do is far too detailed to even start on. The only thing I have not done myself was to reinstall a different windshield. Even the manual says it's a 2 man job and I didn't want to risk busting the only uncracked windshield I had. I've done all of the body work, assembled a 360 4 barrel from 4 different engines, reworked the front hubs, electrical, everything. Incidentally, the paint is Van Sickle farm equipment paint and clear coat. Black and Ferguson gray. Actually pretty decent paint. The photos are low quality due to having dial up.
By winter I hope to have everything together and functioning except for the bed, which is in really bad shape. By the time it's all said and done, about the only thing I won't have replaced, reconstructed or repaired will be the title. I've kept a list of the stuff I've done and l already have 3 full pages. I think the donor vehicles list is up to 14 now. What I've had to do is far too detailed to even start on. The only thing I have not done myself was to reinstall a different windshield. Even the manual says it's a 2 man job and I didn't want to risk busting the only uncracked windshield I had. I've done all of the body work, assembled a 360 4 barrel from 4 different engines, reworked the front hubs, electrical, everything. Incidentally, the paint is Van Sickle farm equipment paint and clear coat. Black and Ferguson gray. Actually pretty decent paint. The photos are low quality due to having dial up.
