Hoarder Special!

[RCP57]

Well I played hooky from customer jobs today and took a shop day for myself. I have been wanting to work on Scrappy( my nickname for this truck since it's chassis is a pile of hoarded spare parts) for a few days but just haven't had the time. I figured today was Sunday and my shop is my church so here's what I got into.

I started out by making a front bumper and mount.




The front of the cab was too wide and the space between the windows too large. I hummed and hawed about cutting the cab or living with it but in the end sad the "F" word followed by "it" and chucked it in the saw. I split it down the middle and carefully removed about 1/8".



I then stitched it back up.





Once I was happy enough with that I got back on with what I had intended to accomplish which was welding up the bumper and fenders.

Here's one fender welded up and the other still in pieces.





This took some time and patience but they turned out OK.




Once they were welded up I could figure out roughly where they needed to be placed. I made some adjustments and welded on the mounts. It's starting to look like a truck now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w2C7EG1iRY