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So about 10 years ago my dad and I decided we needed a truck to pull our skid steer/trailer with....we found this old blue flat bed turd. 1979 Chevy C30 Custom Deluxe. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20130509_193138_zps30f6291c.jpg Years later we found the dump truck which works way better for the job, but the old chevy had new tires just installed and has always been handy for going to Lowes to get building materials or whatever. So, we decided to keep it. It only costs a couple hundred bucks a year to keep it insured and licensed, so it is a cheap convenience. When we bought it, it had new paint and a freshly rebuilt engine. The only things I have done to it in 10 years is replace the tires and front rubber brake lines and the grill and headlight bezels and the front bumper, and add the stainless wheel covers. Fast forward to the present.. So, the years sitting in the sun hadn't been kind to the super cheap paint job and the roof and hood started peeling. I got some cheap paint and primer and figured I could just sand it down and shoot it over Easter weekend, since I was going to have a 4 day weekend. Well I got home that Weds. night and began stripping it down and started sanding on the roof. It should have been easy...the paint was already peeling....and I was using 40 grit sand paper on my air sander....NOPE. 4 hours later I had the roof sanded. and it was dark out. I started estimating the time it would take to finish and the $ I would spend on sand paper and or paint stripper and decided the next morning to call one of the local mobile blasting services to get a quote. I did just that and the quote was reasonable, compared to 3 days of sanding on this dang truck and spending a large chunk of money on sandpaper and stripper. So, they came right out that after noon and I thought...."Great, I will spend a little money here, but I will be painting tomorrow! Wrong again! When I came out to see their finished work, I realized that the guy who had done the bodywork and painting before, should probably be selling his bondo sculptures to museums, because he is a true artist. I couldn't believe the sins that he had hidden under this old paint job. The guys who blasted it, were in disbelief also, as they both thought it just looked like a solid old truck that needed a strip down and paint. To say it had some dents and dings is an understatement. It was dented from the windows down on both doors and had patches welded to the outside of the doors for the towing mirrors to bolt up too, and rust holes in the bottoms of both doors. The fenders were in very similar shape, dented from end to end and top to bottom with rust holes in the lower areas. So here are what the doors and fenders looked like after they were done. now understand that they have sat outside since Easter so they have started to scale over with rust. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150515_115129_zpsyaxtjrwm.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150515_115157_zpsdlv6zgnx.jpg So, I was dejected. Now what??? Replacement panels were in the $600-$700 range for all of them, and I just didn't want to spend that $ on this truck. I was going to spend weeks doing bodywork to patch it back together and probably be embarrassed by the outcome, as I can do metal work, but I am not much of a body man. Then it hit me...Screw the paint job. This old truck isn't worth a decent paint job anyway....it is a work truck and should look like one. So, I set to rough bodyworking the rust holes up and filling them in and sanding them as best I could and ordered up some Spray bed liner. Well, while I waited for the spray in bedliner to come in, my compressor had some issues and I had to wait to get it fixed before I could spray the truck. and parts. Good thing....The Carolina Auto fair came to town and me and my buddy Joel headed out there as we always do and wouldn't you know it...I found 2 brand new fenders for $100 for the pair....and then stumbled upon 2 new doors for $100 each. $300 and I had all new metal...WOOT! So I bought them and some new weather stripping for the doors and windows and set to fitting it all up. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150416_174012_zpscedbkmsa.jpg I got the panels all fit up and sanded down for the bedliner to be sprayed and got my compressor fixed and was ready to go.... I spent some time last week and this week spraying it all. Here is the progress so far. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150507_154209_zpsqr1fudib.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150515_105703_zpstidkgsai.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150515_105640_zpsbgel5fhj.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150515_105603_zpst3egc0nl.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150507_154105_zpso5yizpcl.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150507_154033_zpss76s9gip.jpg http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt93/BC_99/Other%20vehicles/20150507_154011_zpsvjmid1zs.jpg So that is where it sits now. Everyone says the pictures look like the coating is black, but it is a very dark blue. I will post up some pictures as I get it put back together and ready for the road, I have some repairs and black bedliner coating for the flatbed before I put it back on. What do you guys think? BC_99