1951 GMC Pickup

[Rockinridgeline]

Love it. Want same thing with a 68 (ish) body.

First truck that I took her to look at was a 68 chevy. Guy had a brute of a big block in it. He thought that it would impress her to jump in, fire it up, and jam the throttle a couple of times. She said it was too loud and too shiny and lost interest, LOL. I wanted the big block!!! I like all the old truck body styles from the 40's all the way through until about 1972 on a couple of styles. I like the 70's era C-10's too!

[astrochex]

What a fantastic truck!

Your wife has great taste in classic vehicles. I love all the choices you both made.

That is truly a badass cruiser.

[Rockinridgeline]

I like to think her taste in men is outstanding as well

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[BigAl205]

I like to think her taste in men is outstanding as well

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Champagne taste, but beer budget?

[Rockinridgeline]

Rough and rusty on the surface but solid and dependable underneath, Lol.

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[cajunner]

damn you all.. don't repaint it, leave as is.. gives it more character.. Nice Ride..

or, someone really talented could convert all that fine surface rust into a primer then repaint it with the exact duplicate "rust color" paint, so the metal is preserved along with the 'tina.

might take a skilled airbrush operator, but I've seen tail gates all painted up with various scenes, I think it would be even more arresting than going with show car polish, as a build target.

I'm not sure if there's a club or whatever, but in a perfect world, I think there's a place for preserving the character of something like that, that could be the new retro or fad or something.

Like, people are used to builds that have 3 cans deep hand rubbed lacquer, flawless-ness, on display but something authentic yet not in active oxidation, sort of like when people artificially age furniture, you see that in Ethan Allen furnishings a lot....


maybe I'm just rambling because I like this thread, it's aspiration- but without the pretensions that can sometimes leak through the various veneers...

or rambling just to ramble, not really sure?

anyways, nice work and thanks for the introspective tweak, then.

[Rockinridgeline]

I've had people suggest that we clear over everything to prevent further rust, but I've seen some people in the interwebz say that the rust would continue even if it were cleared? Seems to me like oxidation can't continue if oxygen isn't getting to the bare metal? Beyond my pay grade.

I need to get a couple of good pictures of the current state. We have made some changes to the exterior to honor my wife's grandfather. I'll just leave it at that until I can get it out of the pole barn and take a few pictures.

[Babs]

That truck rocks!


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[cajunner]

you can't glaze over the real surface, it'll just continue rusting and make blistering a nightmare.

there's rust converters that work pretty darn well, if you want to retain that texture but they turn everything blackish purple.

stopping further oxidation, creating a blank canvas of thin primer, then refinishing with a skilled "forgery" of the real patina, seems like something interesting and authentic, maybe sort of homogenizing the various actual knocks and deeper scoring into the finish with a slightly more aesthetic refurbish.

it'd have to be a real work of art, though. That particular shading of sun fade isn't for the amateur hand, and incorporating that sandpaper texture into the relief, would have to be an optical illusion, like I say, a real work of art.

[BigAl205]

People who use old rusty gates and other stuff for home art us a rust neutralizer to stop the growth but not remove it. They than cover it with a sealer of some sort.