Progress -Summer 2025

Not much has been done this year but I will update everyone with what I have done. Its been a combination of prep work for some reconfiguration and a different front suspension setup. I will be deciding on a different setup since what I had purchased did not work out. It is pretty disappointing that a company I thought had good products and good customer service did not come though. I have removed all the previous front in setup and am going to try and sell and recoup some of the expense. I will outline this ordeal in another post. This post is about the front bumper work I have started.

The bumper looks good from the front. First a little suspected history. This bumper is not original, I can tell as you will see in the pictures below it has some rust on the backside, but its not what an original ’69 bumper would have. So I cleaned up some of the loose rust and treated, meaning converted the rust with a treatment that converts it to an inert material, which will not continue to get worse.

These pictures where shot at night so they are a little dark. but this shows the rust before treatment. I have taken of the loose rust with a scrub pad. I have some pictures off it after the rust treatment, but I can’t find them right now. I will post the finished product later. Just trying to get the rust taken care of.

Speaking of rust I am also trying to work on plans to get the cab either fixed up….rust repairs or find a replacement cab with a lot less rust. This is going to take some time and also a good shape ’69 cab is kind a becoming a unicorn hunt. I have lined up a body shop that will do the cab repairs but that is a lot of money and I will have to see what I can do there.

I will update here soon.