55’ Chevrolet 3100

Interesting life you have American trucks , beer and errrrrr ...Grindr😎 nice truck looking forward to seeing it evolve

Best looking American truck IMO.
Interested to watch this come along

Update time...

Even though I’m going back a while now and struggling for pictures, as I change my phone more than my knickers. Mainly because I’m dopey and drop them 😶

Decided to leave the exterior of the truck as it is, for many reasons. It really suits the car, and it’s all ‘natural’ wear and tear.
Also because it’s so much work and I really struggle for spare time and being in the right headspace at the time.

But I wanted to do something to it, to improve it and put my touch on it so to speak. So set on the interior of the truck, there was loads of redundant screw holes, bolts, speaker holes etc.

First of stripping the interior of any insulation, padding, old paint, etc knocking everything back to bare metal.
Found out that someone had cut the sun visor holes with either a chainsaw or an uzi. So they got repaired.

The dash was destroyed, and had this masterpiece created and installed in deepest, darkest California. Wasn’t actually welded in, unless filler counts?
The dash was absolutely mangled, but luckily managed to bribe Dez with favours in kind, so he came and repaired it for me.


Finished results from sanding, grinding session looked a little like this. Whilst the top half was all stripped and repaired I put some epoxy on it to protect from any damp etc, although I’m fortunate enough to have a heated workshop.






Epoxy applied, mixed up in a purple.. this was to try out an idea before I took it too far. Luckily because it’s only an epoxy primer, it’s not too late to go back and change my idea.
Note the nice mooneye wheel found on FleaBay, and the inside was starting to look a-bit more complete.
Even though it was bare and I still didn’t have a seat 😬

I’m just amazed this sentence isn’t referring to me 😂

And it was actually only 3 months we cohabited although I agree it seems like way longer. At least all those language lessons means you can understand what your other half is saying...

After all welding work was complete and epoxy primer... it was time for some high build primer.
So a mask up, and away we go.
Nice few coats of Mipas 4+1 2k Akrifiller primer for the job, it’s my go to for every job.
Nice and easy to sand, and no shrink back.

Pictures attached are after I’d sanded the primer, 320 > 500 grit ready for solvent base coat.




So after all the preparation was complete, the primer sanded and the truck wiped down it was time for some colour.
I’d been on the fence on purple for a long long time. Even trying out the epoxy I couldn’t decide.
Black was a no for me, but I also didn’t want to just do it in a direct gloss and regret it not being ‘enough’ to please me.

So decision made, full retard activated and this was the result.




So purple metalflake happened.
I tried out a new lacquer kit on my personal car before using it on any paying customers work.
Turns out it’s pretty curse word, so will have to flow coat it in my go to clear in a week or so.

But overall comparing it to how it was, I’m happy with it. I’ll always be my biggest critic, and never satisfied, but it’s received a lot of positive feedback to date.