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I agree with the others, you can learn to weld yourself with practice and a few pointers from someone who knows. However, if you are only 16 you should take a class at your high school (assuming they still have shop classes). Take advantage of the resources you have while you have them. You...

We finally managed to get the dents in the fenders and grill cleaned up. I spent most of this weekend wet sanding primer but we finally managed to get some color on the fenders. The tailgate and dash made it in for the first coat too. Hopefully we can get the rest of the panels through in the...

My son and I built this one. I had the whole rig assembled last summer before we started paint and these are plenty loud. The wiring runs inside the passenger side leg of the front hoop.

The VIN is stamped into the top of the passenger frame rail in two places on all of the frames I have. One just in front of the firewall and one just behind. The only place I ever lived where the inspector had to confirm both was California. That shouldn't surprise anybody. Marti Auto Works...

It's not uncommon for the screws in the post to be rusted in place. The back tire basically throws all of the moisture it picks up off of the road right at the back of the adjuster plate that those screws go in. After 40+ years they are usually stuck right where they are. First, I would...

The really cool part of this move is that I have my son living with me for the first time in 8 years. I missed the mark with the schedule on this build and he's now about twice as big as I am and working as diesel mechanic out here. Here's a pic of him and my daughter getting ready to work on...

It's a little smoky today from the Yosemite fires, but this picture gives the view more justice.

I have to agree with others here. I used the SEM Rock-it kits on our build and I was plesantly surprised at how good the product is. I had a friend use the Pro-tex and tint it to match his olive drab on an M37 build and it was as good as any professional job I have ever seen. I think the gun...

It's 40 x 60 with a 12' eave height. It's literally 3 times bigger than what I moved from. Future plans are to add a 12000 pound 2 post lift right about where the bronco is sitting in those pictures. There's another 3 acres behind the shop for storage of future projects too. All in all, this...

I'm glad I'm back at it too. I have to admit, this shop is awesome. It has a nice big pellet stove in the corner with room for a couple of couches and end tables....and my beer fridge. I'm not sure how hard we will really be back at it! ;D

I would vote for the liner. IMHO it will be more durable than paint ever will. You can get pretty good DIY 2-part kits now as well if you are inclined to shoot it yourself. The SEM stuff in the quart cans worked well for us and it is really easy to apply. The 1 gallon kit even comes with the...

New Digs! Winter hit and we got some tough weather in Salt Lake after the last set of pictures I posted so we slowed down a bit in January. Then the company I was working for started to take a big downward turn so I ended up looking for a new job. The short story is that I ended up relocating...

I started color sanding this afternoon. The left side of the tub is done and it definately looks better. Hopefully I will get the other side done sometime this week and move on to some of the other body parts.

Bedliner We had the chance to mask off the body and shoot the bedliner over the weekend. We used 2 gallons of SEM Rock It liner on the interior, engine compartment and bottom of the tub. This stuff is a lot easier than I thought it would be to apply. It is a little hard to see if you get...

Thanks for the encouragement, I'm still a little disappointed with my paint gun setting skills skills but it's definately gotten better since the camper trailer. It's my son's truck and he picked the color but I wasn't sure about it until I shot it. It is MUCH darker than the pictures would...

Some Color On Friday after work I pushed the tub out of the booth and gave it a good washing in the driveway. Good thing I did because it snowed a couple of inches over night and I'm not sure I could push the rotisserie around in the snow by myself. I let it dry overnight and shot another...

So I won't bore all of you with 50 pictures of me applying body filler just to grind 95% of it back off and then reapply. You will all just have to trust that I'm slowly getting the hang of it. These pictures are from last weekend. After the seam sealer disaster I bought a few more tubes of 2...

I did a satin finish.

The seam sealer finally firmed up enough to get started back up. I may still have to peel it out of the outer seams but it should be fine under the tub. I warned everyone in post #1 that I wasn't real strong on the body work. Luckily, there aren't too many big problems on this tub. Here's...

Very cool project. I'm looking forward to seeing you get it finished.