I bought this truck 20 years ago from a wrecking yard. It was a running beater then and I figured it always would be.

She was purchased new in Spokane as a vehicle for a utility company and since then has acquired a lot of "makeup" over time. Came from the factory kind of a pale yellow. At some point it was repainted an orange-y school bus yellow. The wrecking yard, I think, did some spot repairs with that horrible old red oxide lacquer primer before spraying the whole thing yet again with yellow lacquer.



So, out comes the paint stripper. The old re-finishes almost fell off leaving a good factory base in places. We coaxed it to bare metal where it counts. Chemical burns were a bonus.

We'll get some epoxy on the outside and more yellow in the inside.