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The Paint Job - |
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The images
below are of my new two-tone color scheme
with silver pinstriping
and airbrush work. The photo below is
a sunset shot I took at Sandy Neck Beach in
Barnstable. My wife and I were
there on my 57th birthday and I shot this with
my Nikon D80 Digital SLR. I didn't realize that
I had captured the seagull until the
pictures were transferred to my PC at home. Anyway, that
picture kind of represents what it's like
camping on the beach so I used that as the
background for the new rear quarter artwork on my truck. I removed Ford's "4X4 Offroad" stickers,
scuffed the surface for adhesion and
then airbrushed the sunset scene (pictured left)
onto the rear quarters. I then had some new custom vinyl lettering cut
at Signs by Tomorrow in Norton, MA to
replace the original Ford stickers. |
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"As the Sun Sets on my 57th Year" |
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The Two-tone Paint is DONE - Black
Cherry panels offset by 1/4" silver pinstriping... |
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The
"Black Cherry Mica" stripe turns a deep sparkling
maroon when in the sun! |
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New N-Fab Nerf Steps
are on... |
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My airbrush still
works after many, many years... |
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...Metallic Silver Vinyl
lettering by "Signs by Tomorrow" in Norton, MA... |
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...matches the silver
pinstriping and my airbrushed dragon nicely. Thanks Melanie! |
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HornBlasters 228VX Train Horn Kit - |
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How About
Some NOISE? |
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A new set of HornBlasters 228VX Train
Horns were ordered and have been mounted. The VIAIR 400C
Fast-Fill air compressor and Horn-Air 2 gallon tank are mounted
in the bed. It's all wired, plumbed and powered up. During a New
England Patriot's game just before I had the compressor wired, I
brought my garage air compressor up to 80lbs and used a blow gun
to pump some air into the manifold when the Patriots scored...
HOLY S@#T! These babies make some NOISE! |
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My
new
set of Hornblasters 228VX Train Horns... |
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...mounted on both
sides of a 3/8" aluminum plate... |
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...and
are now securely mounted under the truck. |
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Compressor and Air
Tank are mounted in the bed... |
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View looking forward
under the bed from the |
Mounted on Left side
due to right side camper |
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right rear wheel
well. |
interference
limitations... |
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It's be finished and
ready to... MAKE SOME NOISE! |
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- New Winch
Bumper - |
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The
Nose with it's NEW LOOK
below - It consists of a
Road Armor
Stealth Bumper with Pre-runner Bar and
Smittybilt XRC 12 Winch
from
Top Gun Customz
of Alcoa, TN.
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Two PIAA '5164' - 4 inch Driving Lights
and two PIAA "5161" - 4
inch Fog Lights, both from eBay are installed in the Road Armor
light pods. I then installed two KC Rally 800 -
8 inch Long Range lights on the
Pre-runner Bar... more on them below! |
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Mounted, wired and ready
for Beach Work! |
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UFO or USD? You be the
judge... here's the light array on the new bumper! |
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Same place - picture of
actual light output with NO FLASH! |
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Yes, unfortunately, the KC lights
have been stolen off the truck right in my
driveway. Not once but twice - After about a
month, I ordered another set and put them on. About three weeks
later, they struck again - now there's a pair of empty mounting
holes. |
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"Congratulations" to all the
"Scumbags" who prey on other peoples' hard work! |
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