Slick 60's

Looking great. Bumper flows very nicely with the truck. Great idea.

Here is some photos of the tailgate bottom i made and the male and female dies that i used. The sides are left long and I will trim to fit when i weld it back together.

thanks 6ftdwn57 !! I also have an original painted front bumper that will replace the aftermarket one that is on the truck now, both bumpers will be the same color as the grill.

Here are some pics of the tailgate repair pieces I made being installed and the finished gate ready for epoxy primer and a skim coat of filler.

Wow, that's nice work! And now I know how to fix my Merc tail gate.

Very nice!

I really like the look overall. Flake and flames are outrageous AND the mellowed out just right.

Thanks for the nice comments guys! I'm considering making some of the tailgate patches to sell if anybody is interested let me know. They would be a trim to fit weld on repair for your rusted out tailgate and would fit 64-66 and the 67-72 like the one I'm using .

wow you do some good work

What size wheel and tire combo are you running? That is really a gorgeous truck.

The fronts are 15x6 with 205/70/15 and the rears are 15x8 with 255/70/15. I tried 3 different front tire sizes till i found ones that had the look I wanted. I also had the rear narrowed on the drivers side I think 2.5 inches in order to run those 8 inch wide rims with very little backspacing. I already had the wheels and was dead set on fitting them up in there.

Correction the front tires are actually 215/70/15

I had a real photographer at my shop to shoot a bike and he snapped a pic of my truck. His camera probably cost more than my engine. And I also fit the a stock Ford front bumper and got it ready to paint. I didnt realize how bad the aftermarket one fit till i put the OEM one on. The bumper will be painted the satin gray to match the grill.

After a long winter of working on paying projects for customers I finally got time to get the bed painted and put it on. Now I still gotta shoot the gate and finish a few other things and its ready to drive . I thought I would never see this day!!HA!

Finally got it all together and got about 400 miles on it in 2 weekends.

Great truck, thanks for sharing.

Love the flake panels and back bumper treatment.

SPark

There's a lot of work on that truck. It came out well, it shows the love of the thing.
Congrats

Looks awesome!

Love the results. That's a Cool truck....

That truck would look MUCH better if it was in MY driveway.......

That's SO cool