Another Little Red Express with a twist!! Updates 5/6/15

Thanks, took me about a month and my daughter helped me. I tried to use this as a baseline for my truck. Not the same hue of blue but close. The truck gets two tone treatment as well. Maybe in a week or two I can get some paint on the body of the truck? I screwed up with this model and others I have. I posted them on here so now I cant use them any for contests ( like I would stand a chance anyhow ) but I have others I have never posted so maybe one of those will make one of the contests this year?

Thanks for the console pics (I kinda had a feeling what ya had done, I was just wonderin' if ya had any spec type pics of when ya were doin' it....

Not that mine is gonna be anywhere near that way, but its a damn good idea to make it so, on another build!

Good Morning, had some time this morning to start making the exhaust. The head pipes are LRE stock pipes. I trimmed them down to the size I needed. Then I heated them up with using a candle and holding the pipes over the flame and going back and forth fitting and bending. The mufflers are from an AMT Road Runner. I cut the pipes off the ends of the mufflers. Then I drilled out the holes for the pipes to fit into each end. The tail pipes are scratch built from one long pieces of plastic sprue. I also drilled out the head pipes to fit on the little tabs on the manifolds. As of right now these parts have all been sanded and painted and are drying up. Next will be to figure out what kind of ends are going on the tail pipes as they will exit on the lower sides of the bed body just in front of the tires.

So, what I did not post was some heartache. I was fitting the exhaust and I dropped the chassis on the floor. The engine popped off and a motor mount came off with the engine. The rear end is one of them solid ones with the 1/8th inch nubs sticking out on bothe ends for the wheels to mount to. One of them broke off and the piece was in still in one of the wheels. The chassis also got a few scratches on it. Brought out the paint and touched it up. As for the motor mount it broke clean so I was able to put it back on without having to make a new one. As for the rear end I did not want to have to hunt all over for a replacement so I took a 1/16th inch drill bit, stuck it in the pin vise and drilled out the rear end so I could fit a metal axle through it. Then I snipped off the nub that did not break off and glued it into the other wheel. I sanded the ends of the wheels down, drilled them with the 1/16th bit and the wheels now are back on the rear end good as new. Everything that came off is back on the chassis good as new. Im going to mount the headpipes and mufflers Sunday and leave the tail pipes til I figure out what ends will be used. Next will be the driveshaft, firewall, and core support / radiator them I will be tying up any little details left over on the interior, motor, and chassis then its on to painting the body and detailing it and putting a period to the end of this build.

Up early today. wanted to get the repairs completed and mount the exhaust. Painted it all up last night and it was ready this morning. Finished all the repairs and the front part of the exhaust is now mounted. I will leave the back part off until I pick out what I want on the ends of the pipes and where the holes will be drilled for the routing through the body.

Looks great nice job on repairs on this one

Had a little time today so it was small items getting done. This bed was a long bed picked from a swapmeet and I had to sand off the trim and cut it down to fit. I lost the bulkhead and found an old Monster truck that got trashed last year and the bed was still good so I used the piece from that one. Filed it all down and rounded off any rough edges and when its painted it will look good.

Looks better than the stock dash , I like it

NICE work on the dash! I only would change one part of it if it were me, the dash is missing simply 2 "gauges" the engine heat gauge and a fuel gauge. I'd add in those decals as you did the speedo and tack, other then that it looks GREAT! Those gauges would be the smaller ones from the speedo and tack however, and centered between the 2 larger ones.

NICE change tho!

If you got OCD, I can't imagine what it be called with me! smileyCASHS601_zps1c54a9c5

Thats PERFECT John, thanks. I will be ordering afer work on Tuesday. On the dash my plan was to put the two guages in the place they are and running four small ones in between them. Anyhow that is what was in my head. I thought it would look different and kind of cool. I drew a rough sketch and I liked it. I think the dash looks much cleaner like this. I am drilling out all the places the little knobs are on the dash and adding straight pins. I think that will make the dash look even better. Also the two stalks on the column for the turn signals and tilt wheel still have to be added. This truck is a test platform for future builds where I will use custom interior touches. This is fun!

and it shows. that 4X4 is awesome

That interior has turned out just SUPERB mate, great work, and just enough of each color too.

-Don't ya LOVE not being able to make up your mind...... impatient-smiley-emoticon

I at times, have that same issue with different builds....

That dash looks really cool nice job , the whole interior is great well done