turbo V8, ultimate b2200 conversion, "Stranger". Final pics

Agreed emjay, it is a beauty!

I just spent the last, I don't know how long, reading through all of this. I must admit the mark to make your b truck impressive was surpassed thousands of mods ago! This is a very thoroughly built and thought out little truck. And to think when I started reading this I was suppose to be finding myself a new hood for my truck.... lmao Keep up the amazing work.

Thanks guys, and I really mean that. The support really mean a lot when you tend to get bogged down in finishing a project.

We dodged another bullet last night as a tornado went just over our house in almost the same exact path as it did on Apr 27.

I really hope for the good weather of spring so that I can finish painting the bed, and pull this thing out so you can see it in its entirety.

Good to hear about that tornado jumping you. Im in Chattanooga and we had lots of debris from Alabama on our property from the April 27 storms.

I'm north of Atlanta, we got a lot of heavy wind and rain, I had tree sized branches to move on the yard, but dodged heavy damage.

Glad to see both of you guys checking in as I was wondering how you fared in the bad weather.

It looks like Birmingham took some really bad damage in that storm.

If this is a preview for this spring we had all better batten down the hatches.

Man did I have a time with paint today.

The temp went over 60 deg, so I decided to finish up clear coating the cab. All I had to do was the passenger side door, and the roof.

I took my tack cloth, and cleaned around the drip guards as I was finishing tacking off the surface's.

I got the paint gun set up, and started to paint. When I got to the drip guards, well, you guessed it, crap flew everywhere.

Lucky that I had only made about three passes when it happened. I got the thinner, and some brown paper towels, and cleaned the paint back off.

Then started over with no real issues except for about three suicidal bugs that seemed to be everywhere today.

Part of the reason I hate painting - it's always something. Dust were it shouldn't be, water were it should not exist, and bugs that hate life all drive me crazy.

Man your not kidding about the water issue.

I have in the past washed the car the day before painting. Blew all of the cracks and crevice's out with my air chuck.

Then come back the next day, blow it all out again, and a little river of water run out from between a door jam when I start painting.

I used to wet sand everything and hit it with the pressure washer before paint and it was a royal pain. Been dry sanding everything for the past few years and it's so much nicer not to have water coming out of the cracks.