Droopy gets a Makeover!

[Darrin Tosh]

SWEEET Ron, cant wait to hear it! Glad the headers were correct, The first set that I got last year were for a 5.0, but not for a truck. Figure if you gotta replace cracked manifolds, may as well install a set of headers!

Got any pics yet?,...

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

truck ****!

Wow, I've had Droopy almost 4 months!
Ugh, time to get crackin.

Well I did this weekend with a few days off for shop clean out and some Droopy time.

Spent the most part of Saturday buzzing the old paint off and made it 2/3 of the way done when I decided to call it a night and give the air compressor a rest. The little 5 hp 33 gallon isn't really quite set up for the demand of the DA sander.
So I started back in Sunday after church and was going all to well till the air compressor shut off and made a god awful loud noise.

Yup as I feared, I grenaded the cooling fan for the compessor so now I can only run it for short periods unless I can rig up a fan by it to keep the head cool while I finish sanding and getting on to the body prep and priming.

My goal is this week to get him back into some color.
So knock on wood and say a few prayers I can limp the compressor thru to the end of the job.

And now for a little nekkid truck ****.

 

[Darrin Tosh]

Truck ****,..Droopy NAKED,.. Real Nice!

Lookin Great RON! That is going to be the best looking Plow Truck in GR for sure! cant wait to see the finished product, especially with the new rims,...

 

[argve]

HEY!!! What happened to the PINK motor!!!!

Or are you keeping that one for yourself there Ron..... ;p

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

Yeah Darrin I know. He's gonna look sweet for sure. I'm anxious to get some color on him as well.
Yup gotta invoke the "you can't sell it" clause on the contract tho.

Trav, I was saving it fto put it in the rolling **** out back for you.

While waiting for the parts to put my air compressor back together to finish Droopy, I'm tinkering with a hot little 283 with some serious get up and go.

Not much of the bowtie gassers but this this is a 13.5:1 motor and I'm kinda curious to see how the test drive is gonna go this weekend.

 

[argve]

yeowza 13 to 1 man that thing should be great on gas should be snuggling right up next to the double digits.....


;p


you'll be lucky if it gets one digit mileage....


what's the mouser in?

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

yeowza 13 to 1 man that thing should be great on gas should be snuggling right up next to the double digits.....


;p


you'll be lucky if it gets one digit mileage....


what's the mouser in?

Yup, dome pistons and the heads had to be milled to accomodate them.

I do believe it's a 1978 Z-28.
I told him that HE was bringing me the race fuel and I that wasn't gonna go buy it.
It's running like 7 something a gallon for 112 octane.

 

[argve]

that is why when I use to build gassers I always built them to run on pump gas - didn't want that high priced fuel cost....

so he's making a racer huh.... I always did like the body style of the 70's maros.... they just looked mean - I liked the later 80's style little better - had me an 89 RS tee topper with a slop monster 6 cyl with a 5 speed - was decent on gas but still had a little punch to her - not as much as a v8 would but the manual made up for it sort of....

 

[Darrin Tosh]

Rumor has it...., Droopy is Painted,...!

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

Rumor has it...., Droopy is Painted,...!

Really?

Ok so here's the outcome to the blue boogers are tasty myth.

Yup, Droopy got some fresh paint this weekend.
I gotta give my youngest props for helping me yesterday as she was out in her flip flops and night gown helping me tape off the lower body lines to prep for the rock guard.

I think I ended up with 26 hours on him this weekend alone on the body and paint work. That doesn't include the forgotten hours on sanding the old paint off.

I still have a long list of small things to finish before I hand the keys back over to the resident goat smuggler.

If ya didn't notice, his left headlight still has a bit of a tilt.

So here's a few teasers of the new and improved Droopy.
Here's some more pics.

Oh and the last pic is for the ones that aren't aware that yes these 3 trucks are the products of the "Dog Catcher Garage."

 

[argve]

Ron,

Ya do good work my friend.

 

[Darrin Tosh]

Ron,

Ya do good work my friend.

AGREED!

WOOT WOOT,..Looks great Ron. When can I come and get it,..?

Now I gotta get the new rims ready, and order the parts for the lighted Lund Visor.

With the truck looking that good I should have the plow sand blasted and repainted.

cant wait to see it, keep me posted and I will start planning my trip down to pick it up, and drop off your next project

 

[argve]

Heck yeah get the plow blasted and painted... only bad thing is you'll have to have someone else paint it though.....



- Ron...

 

[Dsl_Dog_Treat]

AGREED!

WOOT WOOT,..Looks great Ron. When can I come and get it,..?

Now I gotta get the new rims ready, and order the parts for the lighted Lund Visor.

With the truck looking that good I should have the plow sand blasted and repainted.

cant wait to see it, keep me posted and I will start planning my trip down to pick it up, and drop off your next project

My goal is to have it done by this weekend. Now if people would just leave me alone when I get home at night.

Oh well, 1 step closer to getting that bowtie outta the yard...... Finally!

Heck yeah get the plow blasted and painted... only bad thing is you'll have to have someone else paint it though.....

Trav you do yer gonna have to answer for that one of these days.
But did you find the picture of what Darrin and I discovered in BG this year?

 

[argve]

well he'll want it painted yellow or something....

No I haven't - I'll go look right now...