Man I’m getting old… shopping for my kid’s first vehicle! Project in the making…

[Pullstart 64,776]

 

[Pullstart 64,776]

 

[Pullstart 64,776]

This weekend is Prom and Jada is driving her date 

 

We did a quick spray bomb last night.  It’s better than it was.  It’s nowhere near perfect!

[Pullstart 64,776]

Here is some of what we went through to pull that quarter panel out.  The bondo in one area was 3/4” thick!  It mostly popped off that initial bare spot by itself.

 

I sent Jada to work with a hammer and a puddy knife to pop the rest of the big stuff off.  Then, we cleaned up some with a roloc disc, then wet sanded 220 grit.  This is not the final product, just clean enough for the weekend date night.

 

 

[8ntruck 7,424]

What did you pull on the nails with?

[Pullstart 64,776]

25 minutes ago, 8ntruck said:

What did you pull on the nails with?

slide hammer on vice grips 

[Tractorhead 9,099]

Great father daughter Project bro !

 

I‘m also still on my Ford Boogievan Project and it becomes slowly but steady again a closed skin..

about the dent‘s i be honest, the Boogievan is made in 1983 and it has a live since.

 

so one or another small dent‘s be ok.

it tell‘s the Truck‘s history.

 

nothing to shame for in my opinion, just a real story about it’s life

and with an age of 26 now - it can start „talk about of it’s own history“.

 

👍

 

 

[HyperPete 588]

The doctor & nurse kits probably outsold Mr and Mrs potato head by a large margin!!

 

"Nudge-Nudge, wink - wink. A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind person, eh? Say no more, say no more!"

[adsm08 2,740]

17 minutes ago, HyperPete said:

 

 

"Nudge-Nudge, wink - wink. A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind person, eh? Say no more, say no more!"

 

 

 

[kpinnc 13,860]

On 4/24/2025 at 8:01 AM, Pullstart said:

Here is some of what we went through to pull that quarter panel out.

 

I think it's awesome that you involve your children in this stuff. They need to know how things work and how they get fixed. Definitely makes them more self sufficient as adults! 

 

 

[Pullstart 64,776]

Apparently, this whole working on your own vehicles thing is really getting somewhere with the kids.  I’ll start another thread for Rylee’s project, but Jada has been involved in this truck, her pickup, and now last night she bought another Suburban, for winter use!  

 

She changed her oil and helped me do her front brakes, before getting ready for prom last weekend.

 

 

[Pullstart 64,776]

Then she made an offer to this seller a bit under asking price and he didn’t blink an eye about it.  She now has a clean summer truck and a little bit rusty winter truck!  

[953 nut 58,176]

32 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

She changed her oil and helped me do her front brakes, before getting ready for prom last weekend.

                                   Guys dig chicks with grease under their fingernails.                                   

[Pullstart 64,776]

We also got the gloss black spray bombed onto the quarter on one of the nice afternoons last week, then set a little electric heater fan up underneath in the shop for the night.

 

 

[Pullstart 64,776]

Just now, 953 nut said:

                                   Guys dig chicks with grease under their fingernails.                                   

That’s my daughter you’re talking about!    Aaaaand…. that might have been one of the things that attracted me to her mother once upon a time…

[WHX?? 50,816]

1 hour ago, 953 nut said:

Guys dig chicks with grease under their fingernails. 

She's got a beau who ain't afraid to get dirty either.

Nice kid I didn't even have to put the fear of God in him... 

Kinda funny watching them wrench on their rides ... apple didn't fall far from the tree for sure.. lots of 10mm getting lost fer sure. 

We were just yakin about it the other day. Good kids ... don't smoke don't drink don't sit in front of the boob tube don't do any of the stupid crap we did back then aside from getting trucks stuck in the mud. 

 

[Handy Don 13,381]

I've spent a lot of years working with teenagers and two things I try to remember:

1. “It’s just hair” (i.e. be careful not to overreact to stuff that is primarily external like hair color/style or clothing--look for what’s inside)

2. Teens are far more closely attuned to what adults do than to what adults say. We must be who we want them see. 

 

Yer doin’ good, @Pullstart

Edited May 1 by Handy Don

[PWL216 980]

5 hours ago, Handy Don said:

2. Teens are far more closely attuned to what adults do than to what adults say. We must be who we want them see. 

Something I heard years ago stuck with me - “Kids follow your example, not your advice”.

[Pullstart 64,776]

I don’t understand where she gets it.. 

[adsm08 2,740]

5 hours ago, Pullstart said:

I don’t understand where she gets it.. 

 

You mean the gas money?

[Pullstart 64,776]

53 minutes ago, adsm08 said:

 

You mean the gas money?

Oh she hustles.  Babysitting, can returns, house cleaning, and high school to boot.  The tires on Black Betty she just paid cash for.  Mean Green she just paid cash for.  I can’t argue with that.  She’s making money and she’s got clean vehicles with full solid frames to keep her safe.  Gas money she savors.  She accelerates slow, she times out lights when possible, she’s easy on the brakes.  All good stuff.

[adsm08 2,740]

11 minutes ago, Pullstart said:

Oh she hustles.  Babysitting, can returns, house cleaning, and high school to boot.  The tires on Black Betty she just paid cash for.  Mean Green she just paid cash for.  I can’t argue with that.  She’s making money and she’s got clean vehicles with full solid frames to keep her safe.  Gas money she savors.  She accelerates slow, she times out lights when possible, she’s easy on the brakes.  All good stuff.

 

 

Can she come teach my wife to drive? In the 20 years I've know her she has never had a vehicle that didn't have warped rotors. She'll run 40+, with her foot still in the gas, until the last few hundred feet to a stop and then try to decelerate all at once, and can't understand what she is doing wrong.

 

She used to try and argue with me that she was "coasting" until we bought an Explorer with a drive-side pinion whine. Can't hide it when the gears sing when you drive and are silent when you coast.