72 Swb update, new paint!

[fomocoguy]

Well, I just got my truck back from the body shop. The paint looks great; the only bad parts are a couple where my amature body work showed through I spent over 100 hours prepping it, so that was a little dissapointing but I just couldn't see the flaws until the paint was layed down. Still, it turned out quite nice for a first attempt at prepping for paint. I've been doing lots of firsts on this truck. It's great! Anyhow, here's a reminder of before and some from today.

Oh yeah, it's Wimbledon White.

Also, I installed new bumpers and fixed the pieces that were cut out of the grill (after stripping all the primer off it). I just riveted some in that I got from a smashed junkyard grill, but you can hardly tell.

[fomocoguy]

More pics

[ltteg]

Nice looking Truck

[SteveC]

hope mine looks that nice when i am done

[TheEskimo]

That really looks great

[seattle67]

Looks great!

[fomocoguy]

Thanks! Now it's time to start on the interior...

[1971ford]

wow! the beauty a paint job, grill stripping, and new wheels can do (well theres body work and all that too)

so you just did all the body work yourself and took it to a painter to paint? where did you get it painted?

[fomocoguy]

wow! the beauty a paint job, grill stripping, and new wheels can do (well theres body work and all that too)

so you just did all the body work yourself and took it to a painter to paint? where did you get it painted?

I took it down to the local Maaco. They had thier $500 paint job on sale for $250, so I upgraded and got the $700 paint job for $450, paid $100 for clear coat and another $100 to fix a couple spots that I had a hard time with, so the paint was $650 total. They get a bad rap, but if you spend a little extra $$$ and upgrade to a better package you can come out with a really slick paint job. The expensive part is the prep, which is why I did it myself. Wet sanding the entire truck by hand with 320 grit turned out perfect.

[basketcase0302]

fomocoguy,

Awesome outcome on the paint job man.
Couldn't agree more about maaco, (although I've never had any work done by them).
It's all in the prep work.

What kind of wheels?

Basketcase

[fomocoguy]

fomocoguy,

Awesome outcome on the paint job man.
Couldn't agree more about maaco, (although I've never had any work done by them).
It's all in the prep work.

What kind of wheels?

Basketcase

Thanks! Those would be 17" Torque Thrusts, by American racing. I had them on a 78 T-Bird, but took them off when I sold it. I used some billet aluminum adapters to make them fit, as they are 5 x 4.5" lug pattern compared to the trucks 5 x 5.5" pattern. They are not available in the larger lug pattern.

[19FORD67]

sharp little truck man!

[72stepside]

Looks good !

[Nausea]

That looks great! Gratz!

[F100builder]

Wow! The difference is like black and white! Ok, not funny. Seriously fomocoguy, your truck is looking great!!! Good job man and sweet looking rollers too! One classy lookin' ride for sure!