Well I finished up the restoration.

[67Beast]

Yesturday I finished up the last of the pieces needed to complete the restoration of my 67' M35a2 that I bought this fall. I'm just getting ready to head out the door to head to a Christmas parade with it and my 67' M715. My big goals were to have the truck finished for the parades, and I just made it. I had the truck basicly done for last weeks parade except for the troop seat which I finished up this week. Anyway enjoy a few of the pics.

Last weeks night parade

 

[Boatcarpenter]

Very nice looking, especially all decked out for the season!!

 

[clinto]

man, you work fast.

 

[M35guy]

nice lookin truck.

 

[M1075]

Great looking truck! What is the item under the bed in place of the spare tire?

 

[G744]

Nice job in the old 24087 color. And I know what you went thru!

dg

 

[67Beast]

Great looking truck! What is the item under the bed in place of the spare tire?

The truck has a dump bed convertion on it and the air tanks have been moved outboard on the frame. It does make it nice and easy to drain the tanks.

 

[Adamlee]

Deuce resto/dump conversion

Deuce looks great!

Practical, yet discrete dump bed.

Good work!

 

[lacoda56]

Nice lookin Christmas tree, but where's the truck? Just kidding, great looking trucks you have there!

 

[Recovry4x4]

Looka great! Man I miss snow!

 

[OD_Coyote]

That is one fine looking rig!

 

[colyork]

looks great!

 

[Hookin1]

Sweeeeeet Good looking ride Can't wait to get mine looking like that

 

[Ugg013]

Lookin Good! Enjoy the parade work.

Later
Ugg

 

[Desert Rat]

Wow! Nice work! What everyone says is true. You do work fast! I wish I had the ability to do it like that! Ah well. I'm always working on projects that need my truck's help.

 

[67Beast]

Thanks for the comments everyone. It was a quick resto job being that I started 10/14/05 and finished 12/2/05. Towards the end it started to feel like a bad episode of American Choppers or American Hotrod, were the deadline is closing in fast and parts haven't shown up yet. I really had to push my sand blast guy to work at my pace, not his own. And bodyman who owed me favors had the hood for 3 weeks while he knocked out some dents in it. I had to keep the presure on him so that he would get it done in time. But luckily everything came back in time for me to get it all painted and together. It is nice having the facilities here at work for me to do all of my resto work during the work day. It's good to be the BOSS!!!!!

On another note, the deuce ran great yesturday down and back to the parade which was 35 miles south of me. I was able to hold 55 across the flats on the highway and only slowed to 45 on big hills while pulling the trailer with my 67' M715 on it.

 

[Desert Rat]

Dave,

Sounds like you now need to work on small modifications to the fuel system to keep the top end up going over the hills. Ken and I did that with my Deuce this summer. I can verify there is a BIG difference in performance and an improvement in fuel milage too. I've gone from an average of 7.5 mpg to 8.3 at 55 mph. Plus I've gone from 10.3 to 11.6 mpg at 45 mph with her too. After I finish a few more modifications I believe I can see an average of 13+mpg at 45 mph. This is better than the '91 F-150 I had before the Deuce.

 

[67Beast]

I plan on turning up the fuel on it now that I have the truck done. With the body done it will give me the time to tinker with the mechanicals.

Before

After

 

[baja_power]

Dave,

Sounds like you now need to work on small modifications to the fuel system to keep the top end up going over the hills. Ken and I did that with my Deuce this summer. I can verify there is a BIG difference in performance and an improvement in fuel milage too. I've gone from an average of 7.5 mpg to 8.3 at 55 mph. Plus I've gone from 10.3 to 11.6 mpg at 45 mph with her too. After I finish a few more modifications I believe I can see an average of 13+mpg at 45 mph. This is better than the '91 F-150 I had before the Deuce.

what work did you do?

 

[gringeltaube]

Desert Rat,

wouldn't that be worth a new topic like fuel system: small mods, big improvements. Sure everybody wants to know details of how to get better fuel milage and performance!

Gerhard