Custom 66 F100
Finished for now
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New FDM Speedometer Dash Panel
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- Still on the FDM machine
- FDM speedometer panel just off the FDM machine
- Front and back panels of the FDM speedometer panel
- FDM speedometer test fitting together
- Custom FDM Dash panel installed
Custom 66 Dash Insert
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Custom touches
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- 1970 mustang 22 gal. gas tank
- Custom made 2″ tow hitch
- 66 custom F100 Hidden tow hitch behind license plate
- Cut the hole for the gas door in Bed
- Gas door finished in bed
- Gas door “lifted up”
- I designed and made a custom FDM collar on the Stratasys Fortus 400MC machine at Rapid PSI.
- FDM Collar
- FDM collar installed on the 1979 F150 column
- Custom made FDM tail light housing on the Stratasys Fortus 400MC machine at Rapid PSI
- Custom FDM tail light housing out of White Polycarbonate
- Stratasys Fortus 400MC machine is one of the machines used to make FDM parts at Rapid PSI.
- Relocate brake pedal for the power brake booster
- Smoothed out the recessed hood emblem location on the front of hood
- Used Faro arm to reverse engineer dash and door panel
- 1966 custom F100 Lowered the back 4 inches
- 66 custom F100 Front lowered 3 inches with drop I beams
- 79 F150 speedometer in a test FDM housing
Start the Painting
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- Hood painted
- inner fenders painted
- Fender repainted
- repainted fender
- small bolts painted
- Wheels painted
- Painted oil pan and valve covers
- Power brake booster
- Front view of a 66 custom, loading up truck on trailer
- loading up custom F100 truck after getting some of the paint done.
- loading up a 66 custom F100 truck
- 66 custom F100 Bed and Cab after being painted
- Nov 2010 painted 66 f100
- Bed painted for a 66 custom F100
- Sanding the fenders back down to fix waves
- Driver fender painted
- Doors painted
- Doors with the orange
- Two tone 66 F100 cab
- Missed a dent on cab corner…fixing it now
- Cab painted
- Cab gets the orange
- Cab top is white now
- Started with the white top
- All Primed
- Doors are now ready for the orange paint
- Lizard skin in the doors too
- Lizard skin sprayed in the cab
- Cab primered… Ready for the white top
- Nov 2010 Cab getting ready for primer
- Driver Door getting primer
- Bed is getting smoother
- More body work on Bed
- Working out the waves on the bed
- Bed getting read for some body work
How it all started
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- Bought this 65 F100 for the hood and tailgate
- Test mounted front radiator support
- Cab and bed on frame
- Cab mounted on finished frame
- Used POR 15 to paint under finished cab
- Painted engine
- Engine is Painted
- Started cleaning the motor to get ready for paint
- Donor 400M engine, 53K miles
- 53K miles on Donor truck 400M, C6 Trans, Front power disk brakes
- Sandblasted hood hinges
- Sandblasted head light rings
- Fixing inner fender well rusty spots
- New metal on radiator support welded in on pass side
- New metal on radiator support welded in
- Replacing rusted corner on the radiator support
- Done with the metal work on Cab
- Pass side cab corner fixed
- New Cab corner welded in
- Cab corner cut out… lots of dirt and sand!
- Gas tank hole welded in
- Gas tank hole metal getting worked on english wheel
- English wheel working the metal
- Filling in gas tank hole in cab
- Cab floor done being welded
- Front view of pass side floor welded in
- Pass floor inside welded in
- Pass side rusty floor pan ready to be cut out
- Pass side floor before cutting out
- Side view of new floor on driver side
- Donor Floor pan and cab mount welded in on driver side
- Driver floor welded in
- Old floor next to the Donor floor
- Front view of floor board cut out
- Donor floor board
- Driver Floor cut out
- Floor board before cutting it out
- Bracing the door frame before cutting the floor out
- Cab mount done…now ready to be welded in to the floor of the blue cab
- Finished Cab mount
- Cab mount inner layer welded in
- Repaired cab mount on donor floor
- Rebuilding the bottom of the cab mount from the donor cab
- Donor 66 F100 for floor pans
- Painted the frame with POR 15
- Frame is ready for paint now
- Got the bed back from sand blasting
- Not the smartest way to take a cab off, but it worked
- Taking off Bed
- Tearing it apart
- Front end off
- How it looked when I got it
How it all started. From a old blue 66 F100 to a custom 66 F100