1965 Chevy Pickup & Hemi Hydro combo

Moving along to some chassis work. I started by painting the frame rails semi-gloss black.....



A bit of semi-gloss black on the front and rear suspension....





And the suspension parts glued in place on the chassis.



I painted the disc brake rotors with some Metalizer Steel, the calipers with Tamiya Clear Green, and pronounced them good! Once the shocks are installed, we'll have a nearly completed chassis!

I got the roof panel repair cleaned up, and so far, it's looking great!

A shot of the underside, it's not really gonna be seen once it's in place, but I still wanted it to look good!



From above, nice and even with the drip rail!



A bit of careful sanding will be needed here, but it's not too bad!



Once it was sanded, a tiny bit of filler was needed for some pinholes....



All sanded down, we'll see how it looks with a bit of primer thrown at it!

The roof panel wearing some primer/sealer...I've got one tiny bit of filler to sand down at the back edge of the filler piece, but otherwise it's perfect!



Next up is getting started on the bed. I glued some angle strip on the side of the bed, two pieces were used. I'll have slats on the top and bottom of this bed, unlike the '50 Chevy which had one solid piece of basswood on the bottom and slats on the top. I'm also going to have a piece of .030 sheet styrene between the pieces of basswood this time around, mainly to have something to glue the retaining straps between the pieces of wood to.





If you look closely at the angle styrene glued to the bed, you'll see that it has a ripple in it...the bed wall is still not flat, even after all that sanding! I'll sand the angle piece to straighten it out once the glue has fully set, maybe it'll satisfy my OCD over things like that!

A quick mock-up with two pieces of basswood and some .030 strip, it fits between the angle retainers perfectly!





I added the top angle strip to the other side of the bed, but not the bottom yet, I was waiting for the two pieces of .030 strip to dry on the bottom edge. Since it was recessed there, the lower strip would end up too far away from the basswood slat to hold it, so I brought the bottom edge out to the level of the rest of the bed sides.



And a shot from above, that's all for the bed tonight, gotta make sure the glue is good and dry before I do the rest of the work on it!

Changing gears again, we're back on the hood now. I got the filler sanded down on the passenger side and shot it with some primer, and it looks good. I still have a slight problem though, the hood is either down fully on the passenger side, or sticking up on the driver's side front corner. It's the hood for sure, it's just slightly warped, but I'm gonna live with it, since I can display it with the hood up...the kit hinges actually hold the hood up beautifully!