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twomanymontes


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what I did last weekend
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Or How bad do you want your truck back Dad?

Let's go back 3 weeks ago. I had a customer of mine buy a used car and was deciding what to do with his 1996 Dodge Dakota.
Well, he ended up selling it to Matt for $300.



I have been servicing the truck since 2000, when he came back from the Marines, So I knew the truck very well. I
just needed to do a brake job, fix some lights, get the passenger door to open and get tires. 

Matt picked it up 3 weeks ago, No sooner did we get it home, did a former Co worker call and he swung by.
Well, He too bought new car, and offered Matt his truck, a 1995 Dodge Dakota, for $200. it had a rotted
frame so it wasn't worth keeping anymore.


So This weekend, Matt, his friends Sean and Jack and myself completely stripped the parts truck
and I mean stripped! bed, hood, wiper cowl, wiper arms, right front fender, left rocker panel, door handles,
latches, grille, lights, rear window, trim pieces, radio, Tilt steering column, and the list goes on!



Gee! Can anyone guess what Matt ordered for Lunch?






Monday they came and picked up the remains, Matt got $150. for the scrap! Only my son could buy two trucks for
$500, strip over $700 in parts, build one truck and get $150 back!

Somethings got swapped over already:
The woodgrain trim pieces and the radio

The bed, hood and wiper cowl have been swapped over as well, But it was too dark to get any pics.
Saturday We'll take it to get new tires.

We got it on the road today and he loves it and I get my truck back!



-- Edited by twomanymontes on Tuesday 22nd of December 2009 09:40:09 PM

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Forget about those trucks...I tou I saw buried treasure in that garage? Be that a Goat or a chevelle?

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twomanymontes wrote:

We got it on the road today and he loves it and I get my truck back!




Woo hoo!

 

I was wondering how this had progressed, Dave. :)

 

 

 

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cool Dave
hey some of those pics look like a bed you sleep in and not your car covered up...lol

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intimadatorsquizz wrote:

cool Dave
hey some of those pics look like a bed you sleep in and not your car covered up...lol


Once Diana found two more trucks in the driveway after one day at work, I think thats where Dave is sleeping now lol!!!!

Man that looks like a lot of fun!!!!  you should have called me, we could have played guess how many people we can put in the bed of a Dakota before the leaf springs give out lol!!!!

Wow, great deal on getting rid of the junker!!!  Either you know a guy or the price of steel went up cause I only got $100 for the Caravan bleh

Oh and Tell Matt his new name is Twomanydakotas

 



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Man You guys have the funnest projects, good thing I don't live closer, or I surely woulda stopped by to help (Or at least provide some comic relief! lol)

Joe

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WOW great deal and a great job

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Bob and Joe, you guys are welcome to join us anytime! We'll be doing it again really soon, LOL!

Cort, I told ya I was working, LOL!

Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!!! Tim, you have no idea what I had to put up with this past weekend! But she did it for her baby. Yeah her 18 year old baby, LOL!
And I thought about calling you, but I didn't get home from work until 2:30 Saturday and I didn't have a whole lot of time on Sunday. You would have been a great help when it came to swapping the beds! those things are heavy!!! LOL!

Jim, it always seems the SS becomes a shelf over the winter, So one year, I stopped at Walmart and target and bought a few cheap flannel sheets, plus I bought us some new blankets for our room and took the old ones for the car. there are about 3 layers there.

Anthony, Sorry it's just my 86 SS, It's my treasure, but thats about it, LOL!

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Well, Matt finally had enough of the truck looking like a junkyard refugee, and since he can't afford anything on the SS right now, he decided to start using up what he has laying around and trying to get the truck back up to snuff.

When we went to PA in March, Matt picked up a solid Driver's fender. Just needed a little surface rust repair.

Then took on the bigger rust issue with the passenger side that was off the parts truck.

Hi!!!! LOL!

While the primer was drying, he cleaned up and painted the flares

After

then on to the bed sides

Hopefully he will keep the momentum going and get it done before Summer's end



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awesome Matt... Hey when you get done with that, I have a project for ya.... let me just say I hate metalic silver disbelief

-- Edited by Donutboy97 on Sunday 6th of June 2010 05:23:29 PM

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Matt says maybe next month Tim, LOL!

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looking good Matt keep up the great work.

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