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SILVER Star
A few months ago, I was innocuously texting @joekatana and telling him much I was enjoying driving the HZJ80 poverty pack I had bought from him. He asked me what my plans for my next Cruiser project were, and I told him that I was pretty happy with the 80, sprucing it up while driving it daily. I did mention that I really dug @Spallet ‘s HDJ79 and @Mr Cimarron ’s Cummins/75/80 build, and that @c2dfj45 ‘s 79 builds were awesome.
I think my exact words were, “if you ever found a 79 pickup body, I’d love to build one.
And Joe texts me this:
I mean, it didn’t even take him 10 seconds.
And then this:
followed by:
And I had just bought a 1HDFT and H151 transmission from him, with intentions to upgrade the 80...well, that got derailed in about two seconds.
I immediately called Joe and we hashed out a plan. Joe volunteered to do the heavy lifting, i.e. all of the frame and body fabrication, and then turn everything over to me like a big pile of adult Legos. He had enough parts to make a complete wide nose 79 body, brand new, an old-style dash (which I prefer), and column, and brand new seats. Add to that a clean, Texas-titled, rust free 80 frame with factory locked axles... now we were getting somewhere.
For the past couple of months, Joe has been working on all of the fabrication, and he delivered her as a rolling chassis today.
Time to get to work.
I think my exact words were, “if you ever found a 79 pickup body, I’d love to build one.
And Joe texts me this:
I mean, it didn’t even take him 10 seconds.
And then this:
followed by:
And I had just bought a 1HDFT and H151 transmission from him, with intentions to upgrade the 80...well, that got derailed in about two seconds.
I immediately called Joe and we hashed out a plan. Joe volunteered to do the heavy lifting, i.e. all of the frame and body fabrication, and then turn everything over to me like a big pile of adult Legos. He had enough parts to make a complete wide nose 79 body, brand new, an old-style dash (which I prefer), and column, and brand new seats. Add to that a clean, Texas-titled, rust free 80 frame with factory locked axles... now we were getting somewhere.
For the past couple of months, Joe has been working on all of the fabrication, and he delivered her as a rolling chassis today.
Time to get to work.