1965 Chevy Pickup & Hemi Hydro combo

Thanks Wayne, it's pretty far along right now, so it'll look like I'm building at a light-speed pace...that's definitely an illusion!

Next up was the clean-up of the frame, only two hours of sanding stick work to get all the little problems fixed! There were amazingly few sink marks to deal with, but lots of excess plastic where parts come off the frame, and of course the regular flash that an old kit like this will have.

I still don't know why this was there, but it was on both sides of the frame....


It's hard to see in this pic, but there is a very large piece of excess plastic along the inside edge of the frame rail...again, the same on both sides


More weird excess plastic for no apparent reason...


This was probably the hardest part to clean up, the diagonal line on the inside of the frame rails. Again, both sides, and it really doesn't serve any purpose that I can think of!

The area around the A-frames was fun, lots of time was spent on this area to get it flattened back out. I really hope it's just my kit that's this bad, or maybe I just can't stand it not being right...who knows!


Out at the back end of the frame, another messy area. It wasn't nearly as hard as the front end to clean up though.


The left side is how it comes out of the box, the right side is all cleaned up and ready to go. Big difference once it's all cleaned up!


This time the left side is all cleaned up, and the right side is waiting it's turn...

Whether or not what I'm doing is 100% accurate to the 1:1 doesn't matter to me, I just can't stand seeing all that garbage on a chassis, so I make it look the way I want it to, accuracy be damned!

The front end all cleaned up, I'm much happier with this now!


Center section all cleaned up....


And the back end, all ready for some primer!

RIP to your friend.

The 65 Chevy step side is my dream truck. Real truck.

This is coming along, is the first picture the final of your build, or his final build?

Dennis, the first pic is Toney's build, and it was his last Forum Project, but not his last build.

Next, I drilled out the spare tire rim's lug holes. I'm still trying to find a better tire to use that the one that comes with the kit, I don't think a skinny whitewall would look good as my spare tire!





And here's the cool part, my buddy Sam shipped this Hemi Hydro kit out on the 8th, and it arrived here on the 10th! Two days from Wyoming to North Carolina, the USPS is starting to impress me! I cracked a part of the filler Sam had done test-fitting the interior piece, so it's looking like I'm gonna have to strip some filler off of it and replace it with some fresh filler.