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Dates go on each chapter as it publishes. Where a render turned out wrong, the chapter says so rather than quietly replacing the image.
Started with a straight-enough short bed and stripped it to the shell. Every panel came off so the chassis work could happen without fighting the body. The floor was better than expected. The cab corners were not, and that set the first three weeks of the schedule.
Tubular front end in, coilovers front and rear. The target was wheels inside the fender line with the truck sitting down, not a bagged truck that only looks right parked. Ride height got set three times before it was right.
The rear tubs are hand-formed, not a bolt-on kit. That decision cost weeks and it is the reason the truck does not read as a catalogue build. Getting the tub line to follow the bed line took more time than the metalwork itself.
Holley EFI with a 105mm throttle body, orange block, fabricated polished valve covers made in-house. Single alternator, standard accessory drive. The EFI went on for the tuning support, not the badge on the intake.
Cage bolted through the floor and tied into the chassis. Black fixed-back race seats. The interior is deliberately spare — this is not a truck that is getting a stereo.
Satin charcoal. Not matte black, which is the thing everyone gets wrong when they describe it. Satin holds a highlight along the body line where matte kills it, and on a truck this wide that highlight is doing most of the work.
Every part number off this truck. One email when it goes up.