Threesome - me, my truck and ...

...removal of the dreaded rust. It has been a while since I have had time to work on Cornholio. But the drama has passed. I miss my pop, but he is in a better place and there are many things to remember him by. I took his wedding ring in to get re-sized. Funny thing though, the jeweler called and wondered where the diamond had come from because they haven't cut diamonds like that in over 100 years. My mom then reminded me that it was my great great grandmothers diamond out of her wedding ring, she was married in 1861. It thought that was cool, it is a beautiful and large stone, even more so when he told me it was worth 30K. Now that causes a delima, $500 to insure it per year and its now too valuable to wear it. I don't know what to do, I was so looking forward to sporting it around.

For the last 2-3 weeks, weekends and nights I have been stripping the cab. About 50 hours of paint stripper, grinding wheels and finally the sandblaster, I have finished with the rough part of the cab. Will someone please take me out and shoot me if I ever spend $1200 bucks on a vehicle again. If there is one thing I have learned from the project is spend the money upfront and find something in better shape. Realistically after sitting under a tree for 35 years its not too bad.

There are a couple of spots in the floor board that will require creative metalwork and some welding. But that is why I took this on was to learn.

But after grinding and sandblasting out all of the rust I find that there is much more daylight peaking into the cab that I am speculating what might have come from the factory. Imagine that. I could have sent it off to someone to strip, but what fun is that. So saving some money and doing it myself I can splurge and spend it on something much more exciting like an custom original wiring harness. Now doesn't that just wet your chops.

Well its good to be back and I promise to continue to update my progress on a much more frequent basis.