here's what the hood looks like

on the bright side, all is not lost. glad to start with a new clean body and a buddy at work contacted his friend who paints at a autobody shop. he will do for free.
and now I have a body to practice cutting and filling!

I can cut the light boxes off and fill in the fenders. then I want to try cutting doors and come up with a hinge. ( opening doors or atleast one door would really help on a day cab I figure. )
so the crackle cab is now a chop and learn cab.
Id love to build a cab out of aluminum Reg but the money spent to get the tooling required could buy me a new 4200 excavator or Wedico 345 !
Mario