Here is my official unveiling of the work I've been doing on the truck lately. It took 3 1/2 weeks to complete, but it turned out pretty dang good I think. The flames are a nice silver, with blue tips. I put blue pearl over them, but it doesn't really show up. The rocker panels are sprayed with Rattleguard spray in bedliner, as well as the bed. New hoopsters are 315/75/R16 Pro Comp mud terrains on 16x10 Eagle Alloy 058s. I also added a set of D25 coil springs. I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking.


I went from this:

 

To this after a long winter of plowing and abuse:

 

Then after getting hit by a drunk driver I dicided it was time to renovate it after another winter, and here she is...

 

And this is what it does

 

And finally this is my HS graduation picture...

 

Looks great...congrats Matt

 

Looks Good! I like all that black smoke.

 

Wow- that looks wonderful! Nice work- you did it all yourself?

 

Yup, did it all myself, a buddy helped me with the bedliner though. It took 5 hours just to tape the flames and mask off the rest of the truck. It took a day to rip everything off, bumpers, lights, grill, mirrors and all the other extras, then another week of body work, followed by a week of primer and prepping (didn't have much free time then), then another 2 days of painting, flames and clear coat, then a night of spraying the bedliner. It took a week to get most of the bedliner off my skin...

~$500 for paint & supplies
$190 for 2.5 gallons of bedliner

Knowing that I'll never have to worry about rust again.... Priceless

Thanks for all the positive comments, guys!!!

 

Good job Matt!!!!!!!!!

 

Thats AWESOME!!!!!!!!!! That looks great. Im usually not that much on flames but those look awesome on there. Maybe some day i can paint mine. Its not to bad yet, but it does have a nasty rust spot under the door and stuff. Wish i knew a lot about body work, or i would paint it myself. The rims and tires helped out a lot with looks too. Congrats on the new paint tires and wheels, and nice work! Did you have like an auto body class or what? Looks great!

Eric

 

WOW!!!! That's a beautiful truck. Especially the pic with the smoke coming out of the stacks.

 

Your blowing that much smoke with just a #10? btw VERY nice truck.

 

Matt - did you spray that rocker liner on or did you paint it on?? What brand is it? and how is it working? I need to do something to cover the small rock chips

 

Nice work!