'72 Ford body onto 2002 F-150 chassis

[OldCracker29]

Sweet!
It looks like somebody got more than their moneys worth out of those tires in the bed.

 

[Zembonez]

Pulled out the 36 grit sanding disc and went to town on the passenger side and got it all striped down to bare metal. Then mixed up some filler and started coating it. Yep the dreaded "B" word "Bondo " lol but hey I'm a realist, I know I'll never get this old bed straight without it and I've already filled in with metal filler. So all the bondo is for is to find the lows and fill them in.... hmmm... isn't that what body filler was for??? oh yeah it is...lol Anyway started to knock it down today and you can see that I have a lot of sanding to do but most of the filler is sanding off and should only be a skim coat in most places by the time I'm done.

Over all not perfect but working on it, the body line is starting to show, just a few more hundred hours of blocking ...lol

MEH. Every new car on the road has filler on it somewhere.

This thing is really starting to take shape!

 

[66nova]

Pulled out the 36 grit sanding disc and went to town on the passenger side and got it all striped down to bare metal. Then mixed up some filler and started coating it. Yep the dreaded "B" word "Bondo " lol but hey I'm a realist, I know I'll never get this old bed straight without it and I've already filled in with metal filler. So all the bondo is for is to find the lows and fill them in.... hmmm... isn't that what body filler was for??? oh yeah it is...lol Anyway started to knock it down today and you can see that I have a lot of sanding to do but most of the filler is sanding off and should only be a skim coat in most places by the time I'm done.

Over all not perfect but working on it, the body line is starting to show, just a few more hundred hours of blocking ...lol

MEH. Every new car on the road has filler on it somewhere.

This thing is really starting to take shape!

I promise you all of Chip Foose rides have it. To get shit perfectly smooth you have to.

Looking great!


Sent from Ft. Worth TX

 

[FoPAR]

Finally made up my mind about the bed stake holes on my truck. I've seen other guys weld them up and I really liked the look but I still plan on using it as a truck when it's done so just wasn't sure about it. The 2002 bed had bolt in tie downs, so I'm going to use them. So I got to work cutting out little plates to fit each hole.

Labled them all (because I found out that eventhough they all look the same they are not)
Then flipped them over and sprayed them with weldable primer on the bottom.

Then put them back in place and started tacking them down.

With that done I got out the grinder and smoothed it all out

Nice and flush with the top of the bed.

 

[buRRp]

Very nice.

 

[RedRider]

Nice work.

 

[Zembonez]

Nice work. I like the idea of filling the stake pockets. Beds look really slick without them.

 

[66nova]

Great work


Sent from Ft. Worth TX

 

[Alljackedup408]

awesome job bud... you are doing a great home build on this truck!!!

 

[BHB]

Awesome project!