Info needed: Chevrolet grill badge

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Paul

I did mine with a flat bronze in a metal spray can........ I always assumed that originally they all got sprayed with the same factory base color...... hard to tell from the factory B/W photos.......

While I have your attention did you raise your seats with a wooden spacer? and if so how high. My issue right now is that both seats are flat on the steel floor.....and on rough roads the sliding mechanism of the seat rails slips and with my long legs they go all the way back....... and it has becomed a "PAIN" in the back because when the seat is fully back the back rest fits underneath the angle iron of the back wall and really chews up the old backbone......

I will fix the sliders some how ......but lifting the seat and the back rest would be safer even if only one inch........ could also install a solid non-folding CMP seat frame from an early CMP.....

Sadly the good days are coming to an end and will have to moth ball the truck in the sea can in the next few days....

Still have some fitting to do on the repro 2B1 box..... fenders/flaps, lights and fuel can boxes....... found water had accumulated in the drop side top panels..... may take them off..... drill hole in the top reinforcement panels and saturate the inside with anti rust coating then reseal.... better now then rusting later.

PS the Chev emblem, black light gauge steel, was actually used in civilian trucks mid 30s....engine side panels.... and they do come up as repro on Ebay once in a while......