Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV...

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:19 AM

I bought this from a friend that bought it from a guy who bought it from the guy that built it.
I'm in the process of tearing it down to redo everything. I got it last weekend on Saturday February 12th.
Here is what it looked like just before I got it. Nothing at all changed besides the motor and trans being pulled...

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:20 AM

Heres the console. The sides were cardboard covered in tweed, the top was thin pieces of aluminum...

Heres the back of the cab wall. It was cut and dropped down, not welded at all, it has a few screws and pop rivets holding it in place and the same aluminum ducting tape as the floor holding it in place...

Heres the interior fully gutted. I can't wait to grind on it and get ot ready to patch in the spots with rust holes...

Another shot of the interior fully stripped...

Heres a shot of the shock where it was rubbing on the bag...

And where the upper ball joint nut was rubbing on the bag...

Shot from the front of the interior stripped.

DevilDriver · 02-21-2005, 04:21 AM

decent. some work left, but it's a good start.

oldschool55 · 02-21-2005, 04:23 AM

how did that bag not pop?

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:30 AM

Heres the transmission tunnel. It was pieces of thin aluminum pop- rivited in...

I started working on the wiring. I pulled all of the stereo wiring, and got alot of the rest sorted out. Heres a pic of the "fuse box" Notice the bolts in place of fuses???

I got all of the 1/4" thick body filler off and down to the metal on the drivers side and around the stereo surround. I cut my fingers and they started bleeding so I didn't take a pic of the dash where I stopped...

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:30 AM

I got the roof down to the metal minus a few spots. I used paint remover because it had two layers of black, a primer, maroon, blue, the origional white and a primer under that. I started working on the drivers side to see how ther rear was done. I decided to get most of the truck down to the metal to know exactly what I am dealing with so there are no surprises at all. I'm going to get all of the dash down to bare metal and weld up the holes in the top of it, smooth them out and go with straight paint on the dash with no dash pad. I like the shape of it and after scraping the body filler off the roof I found a hidden body line that matches the dash. I plan on grinding the floor down to bare metal to find exactly how much of it is rusted. There is alot of filler on the floor covering rust holes. I'm most likely going to patch in the front half of the cab flooer because most of it is trashed fron rust. The body is in pretty bad shape underneath the filler that ranges from 1/16"- 1/2" thick in some places. The drivers side gas door and taillight fillers need to be redone because they have no strenth to them and were not welded to the outside of the bed so there was about 3" of filler and dynaglass built up to make the shape on the back corner. and about 1/2" filling in the gas door. I have not got to the door yet,b ut I'm sure it is tacked in only a few places like the gas and taillight fillers. The body was pretty straight on the outside and the body work was done pretty good but the seams on the rear were starting to crack so I decided to see exactly what was done. I should have the roof done and laot of the drivers side of the bed and some of the rear of the bed done tomorrow to get ready to be welded up. I'm going to get the floor ready as well so alot of the welding can be done at one time. I'll post progress pics in the next couple days after I have something I want to show. Posting pics of big dips and poor patch jobs in the body is not something everyone wants to see.

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:33 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Punk0Rama

decent. some work left, but it's a good start.

I'm tearing it down to redo pretty much everything minus some of the work that was done to body drop it. I'm leaving the rear etup like it is munus the upper link bars until last because it is halfway decent and I want to drive/ show it as soon as possible. I will be going back with a stock motor, redoing all of the interior, taking the entire body down to the metal and straightening it, redoing everything that was shaved. Putting an entire new front end on it from another truck when I do the motor. Redoing the bedfloor.

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:34 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by oldschool55

how did that bag not pop?

It has a couple spots where it was being rubbed pretty hard. It was not driven at all in the past year or so. I have no idea how much it was driven after being built. I only know of one show it was at and have no idea if it was driven there.

DevilDriver · 02-21-2005, 04:36 AM

shit, after looking at the rest of that, there's a LOT of work there. looks like some ghetto fab.

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:42 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Punk0Rama

shit, after looking at the rest of that, there's a LOT of work there. looks like some ghetto fab.

I'm ridding it of all of the Ghetto. There is no way I'm driving it without going over everything on the truck down to the bare metal. I'll be posting alot of progress pics of it.

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 04:58 AM

The dash...

Here is how thick the filler was where the glove box was removed...

Never did post a pic of the hacked up Radiatior support...

Rear setup before...

Fuel cell removed and bed floor showing once again. I traded the 3 gallon shown here for a 6 gallon today...

***sdime98*** · 02-21-2005, 08:23 AM

looks pretty cool man

***Wicked Mayhem*** · 02-21-2005, 08:32 AM

mm bodydropped luv.. mmm... looks like the same shifter i got.. and a couple of those gauges look the same as mine... gonna be bad ass when ur done!

***98layinframe*** · 02-21-2005, 10:13 AM

wow that thing needs alot of work! but looks like your well on your way :thumbup: Im sure it will be real nice when your all done with it.

2kS10 · 02-21-2005, 10:35 AM

looks like you have a lot of work on your hands...good luck.

Champ189WS · 02-21-2005, 10:35 AM

omg someone definatly rigged that thing. Could someone do me a favor? If i ever put cheetah print on my dash, someone shoot me in the face please.

get to work. It can only get better from here. I wanna see some progress.

baggedime · 02-21-2005, 11:04 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Champ189WS

omg someone definatly rigged that thing. Could someone do me a favor? If i ever put cheetah print on my dash, someone shoot me in the face please.

I got ya covered buddy lol. That looks like one hell of a project, should be bad ass though. I love old school rides bd'd. Got any plans for interior, paint, stuff like that?

flyinfinn · 02-21-2005, 11:28 AM

nice. how the hell do you get your doors open from the inside? a remote? i'm likin the interior. nice and clean

mrshaft696 · 02-21-2005, 12:12 PM

someone apparently did not own a welder

86sdime · 02-21-2005, 12:14 PM

good luck man, should look bad@$$

racer50 · 02-21-2005, 12:52 PM

Man what a hack, but its good to see that someone that knows what they're doing is going to redo the thing.

downtoearth · 02-21-2005, 01:01 PM

Atleast it had a V8.

Baggd · 02-21-2005, 02:44 PM

wow! what a pos! you got your work cut out for ya!! hope it didnt cost ya too much for the truck, cause it needs a whole lotta LUV! props to you for bringin it back to life, but man.. i hope ya got some serious freetime! :thumbup:

LUV = s10s father

T Baggin S10 · 02-21-2005, 11:53 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Wicked Mayhem

mm bodydropped luv.. mmm... looks like the same shifter i got.. and a couple of those gauges look the same as mine... gonna be bad ass when ur done!

I do not plan on using the guages. I may go back with the factory guages.

Quote: Originally Posted by Champ189WS

omg someone definatly rigged that thing. Could someone do me a favor? If i ever put cheetah print on my dash, someone shoot me in the face please.

get to work. It can only get better from here. I wanna see some progress.

All of the cheeta and tweed was removed. I hate tweed so there will be none of it going back in. I am goign to weld in the holes in the top or the dash and smooth it out. and paint it to match the exterior along with the back of the cab wall and the door panels. I'll post progress pics when I get stuff done. Which should be nearly every day for a little while until it is all down to bare metal and welded up.

T Baggin S10 · 02-22-2005, 12:00 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by flyinfinn

nice. how the hell do you get your doors open from the inside? a remote? i'm likin the interior. nice and clean

There are switches on the inside that were on the console and there is a remote to open them from the outside.

Quote: Originally Posted by downtoearth

Atleast it had a V8.

I'm going back with a factory motor for right now. I want to drive it and not have to spend alot for gas. I want it to be reliable somewhat so I do not have to trailer it to shows.

Quote: Originally Posted by Baggd2DaXtreeme

wow! what a pos! you got your work cut out for ya!! hope it didnt cost ya too much for the truck, cause it needs a whole lotta LUV! props to you for bringin it back to life, but man.. i hope ya got some serious freetime!

LUV = s10s father

I traded my ext cab 96 S10 that had the motor and trans out and nothing at all in the engine bay for it. I got my moneys worth out of the S10 because I bought it really cheap and took everything off of it that I put on it minus the rollpan. I have alot of serious free time don't worry about that. I have a Blazer so I'm still an s-series owner. And I plan on keeping it for a while.

zsimp · 02-22-2005, 12:06 AM

i love the radiator support... its totally ghetto gangster fabulous. i wonder if youll find the guys spinner tooth cap in the cab somewhere.

BlizzardofOzz · 02-22-2005, 12:11 AM

im likin that truck bro keep it uop cant wait to see it finished

BlazerPimp · 02-22-2005, 12:18 AM

looks like fun

pOrk · 02-22-2005, 12:41 AM

I love Luvs

T Baggin S10 · 02-22-2005, 12:52 AM

Time for pics of todays progress...
In the middle of removing the thick filler on the drivers side of the bed. And the door handle down to the metal...

Front view of the same thing as above...

The bedside most of the way down to the metal. Minus a few extremely low spots where it looks like someone took a ball pin hammer to it...

bedside done pretty much and showing the taillight fillers that are 4-5 pieces of thin strips welded together instead of making real fillers...

Roof down to bare metal...

Showing the Radiator support where it was chopped up...

Showing how thick the filler was on the back corner...

This is how thick it was...

***orangesonoma*** · 02-22-2005, 12:57 AM

HOLY SHIT what the ****!

oldschool55 · 02-22-2005, 01:16 AM

holy hell thats a shit load of bondo

Low99Sonoma · 02-22-2005, 04:22 AM

Mann o man, What a fukin HACK whoever built that shit before.

Glad to see somebody who knows WTF they are doing got ahold of it. Good luck, and great pics.

sdime90v8 · 02-22-2005, 08:37 AM

wow that some work there but its a better start then most stuff but cant wate to see it looks bad ass

***orangesonoma*** · 02-22-2005, 08:40 AM

i look at it again...looks like a 5 year old did that body work...lol...

iLLblazer · 02-22-2005, 12:02 PM

good luck dude. glad to see someone is taking the time to save one of those trucks.

cain · 02-22-2005, 12:29 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by orangesonoma

HOLY SHIT what the ****!

coming from you that means something...lol..considering the hackjob..that you got being redone..your going to have the sickest trucks together next year

alteredobsessions · 02-22-2005, 02:53 PM

thats awesome...good luck fixing it

mrshaft696 · 02-22-2005, 03:01 PM

wow was the truck in a wreck before or something.. did you expect to see all that shit when you took the paint off?

pOrk · 02-22-2005, 03:05 PM

Holy ****

SLAMnoma95 · 02-22-2005, 03:32 PM

4.3Xtreme · 02-22-2005, 04:38 PM

ummm im thinking WOW is just about the only word to discribe how much work its gonna take to smooth all the out

nice01s10 · 02-22-2005, 04:41 PM

nice man, keep up the good work

s10mike · 02-22-2005, 06:20 PM

Wow.... Good Luck. Ha. Your gonna get pissed at that pos. But hopefully it will look good in the end.

T Baggin S10 · 02-22-2005, 08:42 PM

A pin gun and dolly and hammer will be used and abused on the bedside.

BlazerPimp · 02-22-2005, 09:14 PM

you know if you work out most of the large "shit" spots you can float a thin layer of duragalss over the deep spots...I just did that when i fixed my tailgate...that shit is stronger than metal and its water proof, so its ok if you have to fill over holes...just my .02 you have some work ahead of ya :thumbup:

G2 Racer · 02-22-2005, 09:16 PM

Wow.....I never never seen any vechile done as shade tree and half asked as that. You've certainly got some work ahead of you man.

Good luck!

T Baggin S10 · 02-23-2005, 05:44 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by BlazerPimp

you know if you work out most of the large "shit" spots you can float a thin layer of duragalss over the deep spots...I just did that when i fixed my tailgate...that shit is stronger than metal and its water proof, so its ok if you have to fill over holes...just my .02 you have some work ahead of ya :thumbup:

I plan on getting all of the extremely low spots out. I do not want to do more than a thin glaze over it so when I paint it the next time I can take it back down to bare metal. I'd feel alot better knowing that I'm not going to get cracks in my paint. The dynaglass is a good idea. I planned on using it over all of the areas I'm shaving anyway. I do not trust body filler.

G2 Racer · 02-23-2005, 05:57 PM

I gotta ask, what other filler products are there besides Bondo?
I've never looked at other ones.

02-23-2005, 05:59 PM

Thats fuggin tight, keep us updated on all progress mang!

02-21-2005, 04:19 AM	#1
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... I bought this from a friend that bought it from a guy who bought it from the guy that built it. I'm in the process of tearing it down to redo everything. I got it last weekend on Saturday February 12th. Here is what it looked like just before I got it. Nothing at all changed besides the motor and trans being pulled... Last edited by T Baggin S10 : 02-21-2005 at 11:46 PM.
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02-21-2005, 04:20 AM	#2
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Heres the console. The sides were cardboard covered in tweed, the top was thin pieces of aluminum... Heres the back of the cab wall. It was cut and dropped down, not welded at all, it has a few screws and pop rivets holding it in place and the same aluminum ducting tape as the floor holding it in place... Heres the interior fully gutted. I can't wait to grind on it and get ot ready to patch in the spots with rust holes... Another shot of the interior fully stripped... Heres a shot of the shock where it was rubbing on the bag... And where the upper ball joint nut was rubbing on the bag... Shot from the front of the interior stripped.
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02-21-2005, 04:21 AM	#3
DevilDriver Inspired Soundwave Age: 23 Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 12,178 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... decent. some work left, but it's a good start.
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02-21-2005, 04:23 AM	#4
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02-21-2005, 04:30 AM	#5
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Heres the transmission tunnel. It was pieces of thin aluminum pop- rivited in... I started working on the wiring. I pulled all of the stereo wiring, and got alot of the rest sorted out. Heres a pic of the "fuse box" Notice the bolts in place of fuses??? I got all of the 1/4" thick body filler off and down to the metal on the drivers side and around the stereo surround. I cut my fingers and they started bleeding so I didn't take a pic of the dash where I stopped...
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02-21-2005, 04:30 AM	#6
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... I got the roof down to the metal minus a few spots. I used paint remover because it had two layers of black, a primer, maroon, blue, the origional white and a primer under that. I started working on the drivers side to see how ther rear was done. I decided to get most of the truck down to the metal to know exactly what I am dealing with so there are no surprises at all. I'm going to get all of the dash down to bare metal and weld up the holes in the top of it, smooth them out and go with straight paint on the dash with no dash pad. I like the shape of it and after scraping the body filler off the roof I found a hidden body line that matches the dash. I plan on grinding the floor down to bare metal to find exactly how much of it is rusted. There is alot of filler on the floor covering rust holes. I'm most likely going to patch in the front half of the cab flooer because most of it is trashed fron rust. The body is in pretty bad shape underneath the filler that ranges from 1/16"- 1/2" thick in some places. The drivers side gas door and taillight fillers need to be redone because they have no strenth to them and were not welded to the outside of the bed so there was about 3" of filler and dynaglass built up to make the shape on the back corner. and about 1/2" filling in the gas door. I have not got to the door yet,b ut I'm sure it is tacked in only a few places like the gas and taillight fillers. The body was pretty straight on the outside and the body work was done pretty good but the seams on the rear were starting to crack so I decided to see exactly what was done. I should have the roof done and laot of the drivers side of the bed and some of the rear of the bed done tomorrow to get ready to be welded up. I'm going to get the floor ready as well so alot of the welding can be done at one time. I'll post progress pics in the next couple days after I have something I want to show. Posting pics of big dips and poor patch jobs in the body is not something everyone wants to see.
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02-21-2005, 04:33 AM	#7
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Quote: Originally Posted by Punk0Rama decent. some work left, but it's a good start. I'm tearing it down to redo pretty much everything minus some of the work that was done to body drop it. I'm leaving the rear etup like it is munus the upper link bars until last because it is halfway decent and I want to drive/ show it as soon as possible. I will be going back with a stock motor, redoing all of the interior, taking the entire body down to the metal and straightening it, redoing everything that was shaved. Putting an entire new front end on it from another truck when I do the motor. Redoing the bedfloor.
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02-21-2005, 04:34 AM	#8
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Quote: Originally Posted by oldschool55 how did that bag not pop? It has a couple spots where it was being rubbed pretty hard. It was not driven at all in the past year or so. I have no idea how much it was driven after being built. I only know of one show it was at and have no idea if it was driven there.
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02-21-2005, 04:36 AM	#9
DevilDriver Inspired Soundwave Age: 23 Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 12,178 Location: Regina, Saskatchewan User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... shit, after looking at the rest of that, there's a LOT of work there. looks like some ghetto fab.
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02-21-2005, 04:42 AM	#10
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Quote: Originally Posted by Punk0Rama shit, after looking at the rest of that, there's a LOT of work there. looks like some ghetto fab. I'm ridding it of all of the Ghetto. There is no way I'm driving it without going over everything on the truck down to the bare metal. I'll be posting alot of progress pics of it.
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02-21-2005, 04:58 AM	#11
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... The dash... Here is how thick the filler was where the glove box was removed... Never did post a pic of the hacked up Radiatior support... Rear setup before... Fuel cell removed and bed floor showing once again. I traded the 3 gallon shown here for a 6 gallon today...
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02-21-2005, 08:23 AM	#12
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02-21-2005, 08:32 AM	#13
*Wicked Mayhem* Doin' Tha Dew Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 15,367 Location: League City, Texas User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... mm bodydropped luv.. mmm... looks like the same shifter i got.. and a couple of those gauges look the same as mine... gonna be bad ass when ur done!
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02-21-2005, 10:35 AM	#15
2kS10 i <3 my truck Age: 27 Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 2,455 Location: JN,dleifnialP htuoS User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... looks like you have a lot of work on your hands...good luck.
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02-21-2005, 10:35 AM	#16
Champ189WS UnDeR CoNsTrUcTiOn!! Age: 22 Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 1,037 Location: NC User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... omg someone definatly rigged that thing. Could someone do me a favor? If i ever put cheetah print on my dash, someone shoot me in the face please. get to work. It can only get better from here. I wanna see some progress.
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02-21-2005, 11:04 AM	#17
baggedime The Beast Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,831 Location: Phoenix, AZ User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Quote: Originally Posted by Champ189WS omg someone definatly rigged that thing. Could someone do me a favor? If i ever put cheetah print on my dash, someone shoot me in the face please. I got ya covered buddy lol. That looks like one hell of a project, should be bad ass though. I love old school rides bd'd. Got any plans for interior, paint, stuff like that?
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02-21-2005, 11:28 AM	#18
flyinfinn MPG is overrated Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 2,408 Location: User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... nice. how the hell do you get your doors open from the inside? a remote? i'm likin the interior. nice and clean
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02-21-2005, 12:12 PM	#19
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02-21-2005, 12:14 PM	#20
86sdime Lay Low, Drive Slow Age: 23 Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,024 Location: Middle TN User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... good luck man, should look bad@$$
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02-21-2005, 12:52 PM	#21
racer50 King of the Swing Age: 21 Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,344 Location: Tacoma, WA User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Man what a hack, but its good to see that someone that knows what they're doing is going to redo the thing.
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02-21-2005, 01:01 PM	#22
downtoearth PPG sprayin' member Age: 21 Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 3,672 Location: Minden, La User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Atleast it had a V8.
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02-21-2005, 02:44 PM	#23
Baggd un banned Age: 27 Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 9,118 Location: north jersey User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... wow! what a pos! you got your work cut out for ya!! hope it didnt cost ya too much for the truck, cause it needs a whole lotta LUV! props to you for bringin it back to life, but man.. i hope ya got some serious freetime! :thumbup: LUV = s10s father
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02-21-2005, 11:53 PM	#24
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Quote: Originally Posted by Wicked Mayhem mm bodydropped luv.. mmm... looks like the same shifter i got.. and a couple of those gauges look the same as mine... gonna be bad ass when ur done! I do not plan on using the guages. I may go back with the factory guages. Quote: Originally Posted by Champ189WS omg someone definatly rigged that thing. Could someone do me a favor? If i ever put cheetah print on my dash, someone shoot me in the face please. get to work. It can only get better from here. I wanna see some progress. All of the cheeta and tweed was removed. I hate tweed so there will be none of it going back in. I am goign to weld in the holes in the top or the dash and smooth it out. and paint it to match the exterior along with the back of the cab wall and the door panels. I'll post progress pics when I get stuff done. Which should be nearly every day for a little while until it is all down to bare metal and welded up.
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02-22-2005, 12:00 AM	#25
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Quote: Originally Posted by flyinfinn nice. how the hell do you get your doors open from the inside? a remote? i'm likin the interior. nice and clean There are switches on the inside that were on the console and there is a remote to open them from the outside. Quote: Originally Posted by downtoearth Atleast it had a V8. I'm going back with a factory motor for right now. I want to drive it and not have to spend alot for gas. I want it to be reliable somewhat so I do not have to trailer it to shows. Quote: Originally Posted by Baggd2DaXtreeme wow! what a pos! you got your work cut out for ya!! hope it didnt cost ya too much for the truck, cause it needs a whole lotta LUV! props to you for bringin it back to life, but man.. i hope ya got some serious freetime! LUV = s10s father I traded my ext cab 96 S10 that had the motor and trans out and nothing at all in the engine bay for it. I got my moneys worth out of the S10 because I bought it really cheap and took everything off of it that I put on it minus the rollpan. I have alot of serious free time don't worry about that. I have a Blazer so I'm still an s-series owner. And I plan on keeping it for a while.
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02-22-2005, 12:06 AM	#26
zsimp on my way to pimpin Age: 20 Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 1,600 Location: wisconsin User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... i love the radiator support... its totally ghetto gangster fabulous. i wonder if youll find the guys spinner tooth cap in the cab somewhere.
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02-22-2005, 12:11 AM	#27
BlizzardofOzz Static Dropped Dime Age: 25 Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,324 Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... im likin that truck bro keep it uop cant wait to see it finished
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02-22-2005, 12:18 AM	#28
BlazerPimp Supa Fly Age: 32 Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 6,005 Location: Seattle User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... looks like fun
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02-22-2005, 12:41 AM	#29
pOrk I like MINE with NO shine Age: 24 Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 6,612 Location: Milwaukee, Wi User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... I love Luvs
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02-22-2005, 12:52 AM	#30
T Baggin S10 mytruckputsitsnutsonya Age: 26 Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Mesquite TX User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Time for pics of todays progress... In the middle of removing the thick filler on the drivers side of the bed. And the door handle down to the metal... Front view of the same thing as above... The bedside most of the way down to the metal. Minus a few extremely low spots where it looks like someone took a ball pin hammer to it... bedside done pretty much and showing the taillight fillers that are 4-5 pieces of thin strips welded together instead of making real fillers... Roof down to bare metal... Showing the Radiator support where it was chopped up... Showing how thick the filler was on the back corner... This is how thick it was...
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02-22-2005, 12:57 AM	#31
*orangesonoma* forum idiot Age: 31 Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 44,232 Location: Indian Trail, NC User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... HOLY SHIT what the ****!
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02-22-2005, 01:16 AM	#32
oldschool55 Registered User Age: 21 Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 197 Location: User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... holy hell thats a shit load of bondo
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02-22-2005, 04:22 AM	#33
Low99Sonoma Registered Asshole Age: 26 Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 5,796 Location: Chicago, IL User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... Mann o man, What a fukin HACK whoever built that shit before. Glad to see somebody who knows WTF they are doing got ahold of it. Good luck, and great pics.
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02-22-2005, 08:37 AM	#34
sdime90v8 Registered User Age: 20 Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 1,536 Location: User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... wow that some work there but its a better start then most stuff but cant wate to see it looks bad ass
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02-22-2005, 08:40 AM	#35
*orangesonoma* forum idiot Age: 31 Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 44,232 Location: Indian Trail, NC User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... i look at it again...looks like a 5 year old did that body work...lol...
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02-22-2005, 12:02 PM	#36
iLLblazer 2legit2quit Age: 24 Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 3,766 Location: Winnipeg, Canada User is: OffLine	Re: Bodydropped 78 Chevy LUV... good luck dude. glad to see someone is taking the time to save one of those trucks.
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