I got the Ranger back from paint

[Shoeboy]

I got the Ranger back from paint (56k warning)

Well, about a month and a half ago, the truck went in for some rust repair, body work, and paint. I got it back about an hour and a half ago. Now, a quick history of its past.

A few days after I bought it and got the explorer rims on it.

I broke a leaf about a month after I got it, so I decided to do the shackle flip at that time, since I had it on the hoist anyways. I'll eventually get around to the front

When I bought the truck, the interior was in really bland shape

The interior got redone, sorry, its a little messy, and a little dark

I replaced the grill with one off of an Explorer Limited "sport", I have never seen one on another Ranger.

I got rid of the canopy and the box, the box was rusting out quite bad on the underside of it. Without the canopy, and the old box

Now with the "new" box, believe it or not, it was in way better condition.

I got bored of the smoke stained head liner (previous owner was a smoker), so I got ambitious and put in a new map light set up, and black velvet for the liner.

Next is lighting. A friend and I got bored and decided to make some LEDs for it. The rears are done, the fronts are still being worked on, they've been put on hold for a wile.

Now, in for the body. After I dropped it off, thats after 2 days.

There are a lot of build shots, but thats to much effort to put them all up, and really, they all look the same. Summing it up, the only original metal on the truck, is the majority of the cab and inner fender supports, and most of the core support. The box is off of a 1992 Ranger, and all the rest of the parts, doors, hood, fenders cab corners, ect. are from ACP. I am still in need of a tail gait as I don't want to go after market because I like the raised "FORD" on the inlayed section, and I've also heard more bad then good about after market tail gaits. There are sill some minor things to work out, but its going to stay like this for some time now.

 

[PaleBlue90]

looks very nice, same color as mine

 

[Shoeboy]

Oh, for the record, the colour is the one off the new Mustang and is called Windveil Blue, the trim (bumper, grill, headlight doors, door handles) are painted in Black Pearl. Ya, forgot to mention that.

 

[danger88ranger]

i like it, how much did the bedliner run ya?

 

[RobbieD]

That's a really good looking truck- customized without being tacky. Outstanding! I like it.

 

[compleckz]

looks good!, what happened to the explorer lower valance? you should get (another) one of those painted blue to match

 

[Shoeboy]

He originally told me one price, and we ended up going over that price by about $800. I don't know exactly what I payed for the bedliner, but it was a lot less then what I would have payed elsewhere.

As for the Explorer lower valance. I was driving to work a few days before I brought my truck in, and some asshole talking on a cell phone wandering around on the road ended up hitting a pylon and it flipped it in front of my truck. The metal base of the pylon ripped the valance off and then it and the pylon got stuck under my truck. The face got chewed up quite bad from the road, one end melted on my exhaust, and the other end was mulched up from my drive shaft, and the pylon I ended up folding the metal base in half and ended up flipping up the passenger side of my truck off the road. I was doing 80km at the time, and couldn't chase after the guy, who was to involved in his/hers fucking conversation to stop or realize that he/she just hit a 2 foot pylon, and in the early morning driving without headlights on, so the license plate lights weren't on, so I couldn't even get the plate number, stupid Honda drivers. That one took me 8 months to track down, and I didn't fell like putting another one on. I may eventually, but for now, I want to keep it "stock" looking.

 

[kunar]

it looks pretty good. you planning on keeping the cap off or will it be painted to match?

 

[Shoeboy]

No, the canopy is staying off. I just don't need it, and its not a part of the look I want. If anyone around Calgary wants it, make me an offer, its just sitting outside of the shop getting dirty as time goes on, it's still in good shape.

 

[zainyD]]

Nice job on the mini resto.

 

[DesertStorm]

looks good

 

[Seabiscuit]

Looks good. What company did the paint job?

 

[Shoeboy]

It was a private company here in Calgary named Janett's Auto Body Services, one of the few in Calgary that deals with rust. His shop is in a back alley in a residential area, but he is by no means a back yarder. He has his house, a storage garage, and his shop all there. Some of the things he was working on where just partial restoratons, like fixing up a '67 Camaro, all the way to a ground up rebuild and customization like what he was doing to the 34' Chevy 2 door convertable. He also does accident repair. A guy had his 64' Volvo T-boned, Janett's basically cut the car in two from the firewall back and welded in a whole new side to the car. I saw it pre-rebuild, and it was pretty bad, the drivers door was caved in almost to the center console. He is no where near being the cheapest person in Calgary for body work, and I had a lot of rust to deal with. I paid $6300 for the work, including parts and labour. I decided, that I know I'm keeping this truck, and that I mays well try to make it last as long as possible. There are still a few little things that need to be looked at, 2 little paint bubbles that are very small, and then I need the doors refitted (after market doors, never an exact fit), and just a few small things that are to be expected for such a major project.

 

[Chic N Stew]

looking good, what else do you plan to do to it?

 

[Shoeboy]

Probably for this year, I'm going go get the tailgait done, the front LED corner/signal lights, and a HID headlight upgrade. There are going to be afew small things that will happen now, but thats about all I have planned so far.