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Good to know on the recess. I will call Vintage tomorrow, but I looked at their catalog and didn't see any replacement parts for the lower windshield frame. Only thing I saw on there was that the lower portion was hard to come by and usually not in stock, and to me that means you will need to give us not one but both of your nuggets.
It's cold here too, I'm glad I finally got my shop built last spring, the last 2 winters I was working on the race truck inside two garage in a boxes setup lengthwise, not the warmest environment during out winters here in Oklahoma where the wind never seems to stop. With the new shop and 4" of open cell foam on the roof and walls, I've been able to keep it between 40 to 50 degrees with just two little electric oil radiators on when I'm out there. It will really be nice when I get my permament heat solution installed.
Thanks for the compliments on the projects. I just can't stand to not do something. Even when I'm sitting there watching TV, I'm doing something else. Work caught up with me today and I've been working on my real job issues all day with just an hour break for the drive home. With the progress I've made today, I'm hoping to get to spend quite a bit of time tomorrow out in the shop and will start figuring out what I'm going to do with the window channel.
I really don't want to make it stuck to the cab. I have a working window crank for it and after most of my runs, I can't see out of the front windshield, so I end up hanging out of the drivers side door so I can see.
I won't be putting glass back into the windshield, it will be a sheet of lexan. Right now I plan on starting the repairs in sections on the lower portion and just start tackling the repairs and I have dead time waiting on other things.
The paint bay will work that I'm building, I've built one like it before when I was renting a house with a 2 car garage when I was working out in Charleston, SC. I sand blasted my 69 Camaro on a pvc pipe/plastic box and then rebuilt it with new plastic and the filter/fan supports and sprayed a coat of epoxy on all the parts before I moved back home. It worked very well keeping out debris.
I checked my shipment tracking tonight and with luck, my fenders and my steering column parts will arrive here tomorrow before the 4 to 8 inches of snow does. I'm not going to hold my breath though.
I do need to get some more lead supplies ordered for the truck so that I can get the body work on the cab done once I get it sand blasted. But I have to finish getting the truck test fitted/rough assembled before I can tear it back apart and blast it. Then I will put the cab back on and steering and haul it to my brothers shop where we will put the roll cage into the truck. Once the welding is done, then I can paint the cab and then all the other body parts as pieces. Once that's done I plan on getting all the mud out of the inside of the frame, then filling it with spray foam and then brushing por15 on the frame.
Glad people are enjoying the build, to me that's the best part of it all, all the problems that need to be solved and figured out.
It's cold here too, I'm glad I finally got my shop built last spring, the last 2 winters I was working on the race truck inside two garage in a boxes setup lengthwise, not the warmest environment during out winters here in Oklahoma where the wind never seems to stop. With the new shop and 4" of open cell foam on the roof and walls, I've been able to keep it between 40 to 50 degrees with just two little electric oil radiators on when I'm out there. It will really be nice when I get my permament heat solution installed.
Thanks for the compliments on the projects. I just can't stand to not do something. Even when I'm sitting there watching TV, I'm doing something else. Work caught up with me today and I've been working on my real job issues all day with just an hour break for the drive home. With the progress I've made today, I'm hoping to get to spend quite a bit of time tomorrow out in the shop and will start figuring out what I'm going to do with the window channel.
I really don't want to make it stuck to the cab. I have a working window crank for it and after most of my runs, I can't see out of the front windshield, so I end up hanging out of the drivers side door so I can see.
I won't be putting glass back into the windshield, it will be a sheet of lexan. Right now I plan on starting the repairs in sections on the lower portion and just start tackling the repairs and I have dead time waiting on other things.
The paint bay will work that I'm building, I've built one like it before when I was renting a house with a 2 car garage when I was working out in Charleston, SC. I sand blasted my 69 Camaro on a pvc pipe/plastic box and then rebuilt it with new plastic and the filter/fan supports and sprayed a coat of epoxy on all the parts before I moved back home. It worked very well keeping out debris.
I checked my shipment tracking tonight and with luck, my fenders and my steering column parts will arrive here tomorrow before the 4 to 8 inches of snow does. I'm not going to hold my breath though.
I do need to get some more lead supplies ordered for the truck so that I can get the body work on the cab done once I get it sand blasted. But I have to finish getting the truck test fitted/rough assembled before I can tear it back apart and blast it. Then I will put the cab back on and steering and haul it to my brothers shop where we will put the roll cage into the truck. Once the welding is done, then I can paint the cab and then all the other body parts as pieces. Once that's done I plan on getting all the mud out of the inside of the frame, then filling it with spray foam and then brushing por15 on the frame.
Glad people are enjoying the build, to me that's the best part of it all, all the problems that need to be solved and figured out.
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