How would you make this truck less ugly??

[JamesSam]

Yeah make it pretty and get new metal, or do the easy stuff. Either way it will be a great truck, just depends how much you want to work for it.

 

[1lejohn]

The color is my favorite part for sure. It had a long hard life as a farm truck so it’s all rusty. Front fender dent is from a tractor. Who knows why the bumper is crooked. I redid the interior completely because it smelled like the mice that lived there.

I did my interior also. It makes it much better to drive if it's nice.

 

[Broken85]

Option A- win the lottery
Option B- add more rust to it and put a 600 hours 454 under the hood. It will be a panty dropper.

Don’t kid yourself into thinking you can touching one bolt on that body without without it turning into a disaster. All you are going to do is snap heads or strip carriages out. Nothing is coming off that truck without a fight and it will never go back together with the same parts. Wheel flares, dent puller and some Bondo. Buy a new stripe and trim for it and take it to Macco. Bio con dios!

“It all starts with the manifold and before you know it you are looking through the block”

 

[SquareRoot]

Park it next to AuroraGirl's truck.

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Help me make my square less ugly lol. I don’t want to do any patching/painting body work as I like the rusty farm truck look. But I want it to look rusty in a cool way not just a scrap pile way.

I need to get rid of the oxidation on the paint, but will probably have to polish by hand due to the rust spots.

Replace missing trim or get rid of all the trim and add stripes?

New rear bumper that isn’t bent and rusty?

What would you do??

 

[Grit dog]

Looks about as good as it can without a lot of help.
Like you said, get rid of the trim mounts. Polish it up. It’s got actual patina so that’s cool. Not 4 coats of half flaking off paint.
Find some used trim, toss the rear bumper. New ones are dime a dozen. And drive it.
I’d also use this opportunity to do some legit wheel well cutouts. Not like you’re ruining good sheetmetal. Then run some big mud tires on some freshly painted white wheels.
One of my favorite colors. Had a 75 that color. And it looked as bad as your truck. But that was in 1988! lol. Fckin rust!

 

[mlsceo]

Vaya con Dios.

 

[SquareRoot]

Vaya con Dios.

If you do, please clean it up.

 

[mlsceo]

If you do, please clean it up.

Not sure what that means. I was simply correcting the spelling in post #18

 

[Grit dog]

You could park it next to this bucket of rust…that would make it look much better!
Proof that not all PNW vehicles are rust free! Lol. If you let them sit next to the beach for 40 years they get a little salty!

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[DoubleDingo]

Not sure what that means. I was simply correcting the spelling in post #18

Not all of us speak multiple languages, you could have simply wrote Go with God. Assuming that is what the actual meaning is, it is what it translates to using google translate

 

[Rusty Nail]

I like it. Green ones might be the best!

 

[mlsceo]

Not all of us speak multiple languages, you could have simply wrote Go with God. Assuming that is what the actual meaning is, it is what it translates to using google translate

Yes, Go with God. So often folks will use a word or phrase in Spanish and not get it right. Just trying to be helpful. A perfect example that I hear all the time "mano y mano"
It's actually "mano a mano". Means "hand to hand" as in fighting, competing, etc. When a "y" is used rather than an "a" it means " hand and hand".

On the other hand, I remember "Pulu si bagoomba!" as meaning, "Release the prisoners!" That's my reference to Gilligan's Island. No idea what language that is but according to the Professor the natives would get it.

 

[DoubleDingo]

Yes, Go with God. So often folks will use a word or phrase in Spanish and not get it right. Just trying to be helpful. A perfect example that I hear all the time "mano y mano"
It's actually "mano a mano". Means "hand to hand" as in fighting, competing, etc. When a "y" is used rather than an "a" it means " hand and hand".

On the other hand, I remember "Pulu si bagoomba!" as meaning, "Release the prisoners!" That's my reference to Gilligan's Island. No idea what language that is but according to the Professor the natives would get it.

I just copied that into google translate, the language detected is "Wolof", and the translation is More of the Bagomba

 

[mlsceo]

I just copied that into google translate, the language detected is "Wolof", and the translation is More of the Bagomba

So the screen writers on Gilligan's Island were pulling our legs the whole time!!

 

[Ricko1966]

Finally found the pics I wanted you to see of nicely cut fender wells. You will need to cut fronts and rears.

https://www.gmsquarebody.com/media/712-jpg.712/