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Steve's 81 Toyota "angelo" build

sixstringsteve

sixstringsteve

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Got a little more done today. Removed the tank and started grinding off the old spring hangers. It took FOREVER to grind those. I spent an hour on one and it still isn't ground down all the way.

I'm shooting for 110- 112" wheelbase.

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sixstringsteve

sixstringsteve

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swashbuckler said:
I kinda liked that blue color... :(
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The original greenish/teal color looks awesome in the pictures, but terrible in person. They did a terrible job painting it. Plus I'm going to a long bed now, and I don't have any of the paint left. So I pretty much have no choice but to paint it.

I have decided on flat sky blue. It's easy, cheap, and available.
 
zukijames

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not moab anymore
i think the 60 grit flap disc are faster even the 120 maybe not faster then holding a grinding wheel sideways and pushing hard and just using the edge but idk everyones differant i guess
 
Kevin B.

Kevin B.

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bigzuki said:
The original greenish/teal color looks awesome in the pictures, but terrible in person. They did a terrible job painting it. Plus I'm going to a long bed now, and I don't have any of the paint left. So I pretty much have no choice but to paint it.

I have decided on flat sky blue. It's easy, cheap, and available.
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Was it that nasty? That sucks.

If I ever put paint I care about on my Runner, I may go with that color. It looked great in the pics.
 
sixstringsteve

sixstringsteve

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swashbuckler said:
If I ever put paint I care about on my Runner, I may go with that color. It looked great in the pics.
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I agree, it does look great in the pics. It's not a horrible color, but it has drip marks all over it and he left a lot of crucial parts red. I like the sky blue better. I really love the look of it in the pictures, but it doesn't look that color in real life.
 
sixstringsteve

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I found a local guy parting out his long-bed, so I'll have a new bed, fenders, doors, and hood. I'll finally be able to get some half-doors going on.
 
sixstringsteve

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Picked up a few parts last night. And by a "few" I mean I stuffed my truck to the brim to fit it all in:

Long Bed, doors, fenders, dash, hood, most of an A/C system, interior pieces, and a ton more. The cool part is that these parts were from a truck that's been garaged for 15 years, and it came from AZ before then. So that means ZERO rust. i'm pretty excited about that.
 
sixstringsteve

sixstringsteve

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nah, it's a different one. It's a 1st gen. I felt bad stripping all those parts off it, but the guy needed money and that rig hadn't sold in forever. I hope you get it Rick, the frame and body are super clean. I should have bought the whole truck and built it up instead of mine, it would have saved me a lot of time and work and looked a lot cleaner. It'd be the perfect donor for your double-cab. I would have snagged the whole thing if I'd had room to store it.
 
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