Update on my Torino framed 65 shorty

CMenard · Post by **CMenard** » January 23, 2007, 12:45 pm

Well, some more progress has been made so I thought I would post this thread. I've almost got the bed floor and wheel wells finished. The bed now only needs the center section fabbed up and it will be ready to media blast. My chinese break wants no part of a 48" piece of 18 gauge. So this weekend I'm going to visit my dad in Ohio and we'll make it at his sheetmetal shop.

I cut out the bad upper bed corner to replace it with the one off the crusty bed.

While doing this I learned a very valuable lesson. Strip everything before cutting. Notice in this picture the old weld repair below the tail light. If I had stripped everything first I could have taken more out of the other truck. It's nothing that filler won't hide again.

I also replaced the lower bedside with a piece off of the blue bomb. It turned out much better than I thought. This piece had 1/8"+ of bondo on it hiding a crease. I've almost got the crease hammered out so primer alone should hide it.

Unfortunately, I'm still in need of some lower bed corners to replace the crunched units on my bed. The ones on the other truck are too rusty. I've thought about cutting them off and hammering them on a bag. Then using a planishing hammer to smooth them back out. Niether of which are tools that I own or feel that I could keep them the same shape to put them back on. So the search for replacements continues.

Next up is putting a repop 64 core support and inner fenders out of the blue 66 on the truck and mounting them up to the Torino Chassis.

I almost forgot. There's a rear bumper on the truck now. '66 bumper brackets and a '73+ rear bumper worked out perfect for the rear frame section I built.

Thanks for looking,
Curtis

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » January 23, 2007, 1:21 pm

Very cool. Nice work so far, is that last pic the truck mounted on the frame?

nice ride ht,

if it is.

Ps. Whats a Georgia Newton? That like a fig newton?

ICEMAN6166 · Post by **ICEMAN6166** » January 23, 2007, 1:32 pm

Johnny Canuck wrote:Ps. Whats a Georgia Newton? That like a fig newton?

if its Georgia, has to be either a peach or pecan newton.

truck is looking good.

CMenard · Post by **CMenard** » January 23, 2007, 1:35 pm

It's on the frame. Here's a pick of it before I took it apart.

I bought it off of Ebay last year and this is what it looked like then:

Slowly I'm making progress on it.

Johnny Canuck · Post by **Johnny Canuck** » January 23, 2007, 1:45 pm

Whoa that was one hideous hood. Good to see you ditched that thing.

jakdad · Post by **jakdad** » January 23, 2007, 2:09 pm

Nice Work. Somthing you can be proud of. Does the rear frame have Torino Suspension? I like the coils in the rear.

CMenard · Post by **CMenard** » January 23, 2007, 2:17 pm

It's all Torino suspension. I like the coils as well and the thing rides nice. It has the Torino steering column also. I'll get some pics of that beauty and post them. There will be a nice aftermarket column in it before spring with a stock truck wheel.

The truck has potential and I got it cheaper than a truck and Torino or CV to do my own swap.

That hood was pretty gross. That was the first thing to go. I didn't even want my neighbors to see it.

jakdad · Post by **jakdad** » January 23, 2007, 4:39 pm

What year Torino chassis is that?

CMenard · Post by **CMenard** » January 23, 2007, 4:50 pm

What year Torino chassis is that?

It's a '73 2 door chassis.

Uncle Skip · Post by **Uncle Skip** » January 23, 2007, 8:20 pm

What a beautiful piece of "work in progress".
The craftsmanship of our members is incredible.
You guys make me proud to be a member of this group.
U@ss

MadMaxetc · Post by **MadMaxetc** » January 23, 2007, 9:26 pm

Liiks real good!

I too like the springs in back.

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » January 24, 2007, 6:30 am

Looks great! Keep updating.
Charlie

Truckfarmer · Post by **Truckfarmer** » January 24, 2007, 6:57 am

Looks great! Keep up the good work and by all means, keep updating us to your progress. That truck is wicked.
I was told that the rear quarters of the bed are the same as the patch panels available for a 1966-77 Bronco. Might be an avenue to check for the bed repair.

CMenard · Post by **CMenard** » January 24, 2007, 7:10 am

Holy crap!!! Truckfarmer you are a genius!!!

Found these:

http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-141 ... __left.htm

They look like they are exactly what I need to fix the bottoms of my bed corners.

They also have these:

http://broncograveyard.com/bronco/i-141 ... ousing.htm

Which would have been much better than all the work I did to cut the old ones out of the '66 bed and then replace the rusty metal on them.