What started as a 50 F3
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Figured I’d post some pics of this 50 Ford Pu.
My boss took this on as a favor job for a buddy of his.
Truck started out as an F3 longbed. The owner built a frame for it (his son owns a late model stockcar chassis shop) and tried his best at doing a bunch of body mods. Chopped the 8′ bed down to a 6′ bed. Took a few inches out of the height and width as well. Added the fancy Ford script for the tailamps in the roll pan. Added a bunch of metal to the bottom of all the fenders, and made a tilt front end.
This is how he brought the truck to us.
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After 3 months of welding, hacking, grinding, reshaping, filler, priming and blocking I had this..
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It sat around the shop for a few months then at the first of this month our painter started doing a few batches of parts a week. The trucks owner showed up today with the powdercoated chassis and we’re supposed to have it assembled and on the trailer by the end of the week.
The cab is still sitting in the booth. Running Boards, Bed and Hood still need to be painted…
Here’s what we had today.
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Off the gun finish….
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looks really nice, i like the natural lit shop too a lot like my shop
Looks like great work. The painter did a great job (especially if all the batches match).
Bodywork looks great too, kinda interesting based on what you had to start with. What is that front bumper made out of?
Can’t imagine working on something for so long. I can hardly stand jobs that sit for a week.
Keep us posted as you get it finished up
Awesome work Barry,looks great :cheers Your painter has his it together,very nice finish :cheers
:agree Very nice work is there much bog in it? mud ,bondo?? Thats gonna be a nice truck when its all together :rock
looks good barry :cheers
wow. im impressed. great work
Wow barry you guys really brought that thing to life! great job holmes!
Great work. That’s beautiful :clappy
Yes that looks real nice, very impressed I like it a lot
Must take a lot of patience to do that’s kind of work, once again great work :clappy
Fantastic!
Thanks fellas.
Got the Cab and doors on it today, but I forgot to take my camera to the shop.
We’ve managed to swamp the paint shop with collison jobs this week while they’ve been pushing to get the rest of this thing in color. Be interesting to see if they get this thing ready by xmas or not. At last count we had 18 collision jobs waiting on paint that are supposed to be delivered friday. :unsure:
Love the truck. Can’t wait to see it finished. I have to show this to my stepdad. He also has a ’50 Ford that he has had for a very long time that he will be restoring at some point.
looks nice 2 me blove sure gonna be one bright old ford when its all done hammertone on the frame looks good 2 :clappy
Very nice Barry…looking forward to seeing her done! :cheers
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