Well the twisted wreckage that was the old one left the driveway today.

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So with a fat $36.50 in my pocket in scrap value I prepped the driveway for its new occupant. That required pulling in the possesed 79 and stripping it out. Once that was out of the way I swept the driveway, hosed it off and drove the new one into its spot.

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The good news is that it fired right up and ran like a champ after sitting for 2 weeks.

The digi2 swapped 8V seems nice and strong.

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So lets look over the work ahead of me. First is the color. I kinda hate it with a burning passion. The next is this badass dent in the side of the bed

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Thats gonna take some work.

Above that dent is a dissapointing discovery of rust through the panel. Some cutting and welding is in order

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The interior is a little bijou. Spartan maybe?

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That is pretty easy though.

the hole in the roof. Already taken care of

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a Nasty hole in the bed

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here is probably the worst part. Behind the core support that is nasty and needs to go is this.

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Thinking about shaved bay options that would hide these sins.

Tomorrow I start in hardcore. Hope to get the swap to single round core support done. Fingers crossed. It seems like alot of work.

I did manage to pick up the reducer and hardener for the paint today. I want to grab a gravity feed HVLP paint gun for this job.