well,,,,,,finally drove the truck today,,,,,only thing left is to put on the fender emblems and wipers,,,and wait on the custom plates,,,,Ric will luv the plates "77 440" Aloha

another pic

bed shot

very nice, and wrapped in my favorite color. nice.

will do big bro!!

I take it that the rear bumper brackets worked out ok. nice looking truck there Joe!!!!

Smokin the truck is lookin good, love the inside of the bed, and looking foward to seeing my custom plates! Rico, doing the yard is the only thing the keeps me sane,and a no brainer, grab a beer and hop on the mower. lol

LOL I got ya!

the brackets worked out great Sam,,,,,,straitened up nice and painted body color,,,,,,but putting the **###%%**&&@@@ fender emblems on was a real pain

what was such a pain about the fender emblems?? didn't your fenders already have the holes in them???

they just dont conform to the body real well,,,,put some push clips on back,,,still not suckin in good,,,,,i had mine rechromed and one of the se parts broke off later,,so i found another set,,,,,,ready to counter sink some tiny screws rigght thru the front

nnnnooooooooooooooo!

well,,so far the silicone saved em

smokin.....
if you look on ebay, there is a guy that sells NOS adventurer SE nameplates from time to time. I am wondering if the set that you have is "warped" or something. I will look to see if I can find his ebay "name".

Smokin, go to Firestone Collectibles on e-bay,they have an e-bay store, they have adventurer se 100 emblems, plenty of them,you can still buy the 150 inserts, don't screw them on!

thanks Sam and Ric,,,,,,,I'll check it out,and no worry,,i wont screw em on

By the way ,Sam that guy you told me about on the other site, 76 lwb,with similar options, didn't love it that much, he sold it.

Been a while since I've logged on, mainly because I've moved back to BC from Phoenix and now use a dial-up instead of cable.

Anyhoo, I logged on hoping to find someone who could tell me about Warlock wooden bedrails, if they were a factory option and where I could get a template to make a set for my '78 Adventurer SE. I am currently replacing the oak bed that got warped silly in the Phoenix sun and thought the wood rails would look good on the truck. Hoping to sell it soon to better my downpayment on a home.

Some of you may remember the truck from my previous sig pics but for those of you who don't, here it is. It was originally a 400/727 combo but I replaced it with a '68 440 punched .030 over, TRW forged 6-pak replacement pistons, forged crank, 284/484 purple shaft, worked 906 heads with stainless valves and topped off with a dual quad propane system sitting on a low rise Offy intake. Had the trans built by John Cope of Cope Racing transmissions. Currently sporting a set of 2.7 gears in the rear but have a set of 3.9s... just haven't had the inclination to kill my fuel economy! (Plus it's fun to pull down to first at 55 MPH and tromp on the load pedal!!! Scares fart-piped Hondas!)

The interior has the woodgrain dash without tach or vac/volt, has buddy seat buckets, tilt column, all in black.
Kind of a rare bird based on the VIN and production date having the last 6 digits being 500001 built Sep/77 (1st truck, second line).

Check out the attachment...

And an engine pic...maybe a little more than "slightly" modified!!!