Purchased 2 trucks here on the board so far, and dealing on more, but the higher transport/shipping/gas costs these days are killing the feasability of many deals.
Medium Green(?) 69 D200 Camper Special 440/4-Speed from Colorado. (Ad has since been purged from the board.)
Desert Turquoise 69 D200 Camper Special 383/Auto from Wyoming. Link to Ad here on board with some before pic's: http://www.sweptline.org/modules.php?na ... pic&t=9314
Originally bought the Wyoming truck as a parts truck, but it is in better shape than the Colorado truck.
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Polished the rusty chrome wheels on the Colorado truck, turned out surprisingly well. Thought they were hopeless. Am in the middle of transferring the chrome wheels and new lugnuts onto the freshly painted brake drums of the Wyoming truck.
Brake drum before:
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/181247/BrakeDrumBeforePaintRevised.jpg)
Brake drum after Duplicolor Semi-Gloss Black High Temp Engine Paint. Wanted some good paint that could stand some heat. Some Harley motorocycle guys taught me about using black to set off chrome well:
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Here is the rusty chrome wheel while still on the Colorado truck. This is before polishing, and before the bald bias ply tire was dis-mounted:
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Chrome wheel after polishing, installed with new chrome lug nuts (old ones were junk), and one of 2 out of production Cooper 16.5 tires I bought locally on Craigslist, $75 for the pair.
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![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/181354/PolishedChromeWheelFromColoradoTruckAfter_Instal.jpg)
I have also been working on the heavily oxidized paint with Turtle Wax Rubbing Compound. Would like to touch up the paint, if I could get some touch up paint that matched. Front half is as found farm truck, painted rim and untouched paint. Back half (bed) is after polishing, and polished chrome wheel install, may get to a local show yet:
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Another shot of progress. Thinking of repainting the rear bumper and mirror brackets, just to get by for now, with Rustoleum White spray paint (any thoughts on that?):
![Image](http://upload2.postimage.org/181434/HalfDoneDriverSideBedPolished_1ChromeWheelInstal.jpg)
It has been a lot of work, hand polishing and prepping stuff for paint, but the results have been encouraging. Need the exercise anyway......LOL.
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