Working on my girls truck(lots of pics)

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Stangshcky12

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She bought the truck off her dad a month or two after we started "dating". He was offered $9600 for trade on a 2009 2500, she offered him $9601.
124k miles at the time and plenty of dings dents and rust from being a farm/work truck. (July 2009)
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First investment was 35x12.5x17 mastercraft courser ct (september 2009)
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I got her a 60" rampage light bar for her birthday
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For our one year anniversary I got her an HBS 2" leveling kit, for her birthday i installed it and also straight piped her exhaust. She bought 1.75" wheel spacers and a set of 3ft dual whips, I had a uniden 510xl radio I found in my garage. How it sat as of September 2010
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Christmas 2010 I put together an air horn kit. Can't afford a compressor yet so I just picked up a craftsman portable tank, a set of dual trumpet horns, some fittings, a relay, fuse and momentary switch. Less then $75 bucks and...
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A piece of one of my broken hockey sticks for a mount=no extra holes
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Relay and inline fuse
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With the leveling kit and 145k miles on the stock shocks it road like a lumber wagon. Installed a set of pro comp es9000 shocks, made the mistake of telling her she could get pink shock boots (July 2011)
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With a the help of my brother and friend I also started to tackle some of the body work on the truck if you haven't noticed most of the pictures are of the drivers side cause...)
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My buddy forgot his stud gun at work so the door and back corner are still on the list
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That same day
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Some of you may have seen this in Jim's fantasy graphic thread
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The passenger side took a little longer to get cleaned up and bed linered
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While I was waiting bed linering her pocket flares I tinted her cab lights
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Her truck her bike
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Finally got her flares on and before our first snowfall
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Thats looks great. Just by taken time and adding/ fixing things one by one is a good way to go
 

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This looks familiar lol ;) lookin good
 
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This looks familiar lol ;) lookin good

Absolutely no idea where you would have seen them before :confused: hahaha
Not sure what will be the next mod, in starting to run out of inexpensive mods for presents! LED tails might be up next since the drivers side is cracked and the passenger side is actually being held in with caulk :banghead: and maybe redo the exhaust
 

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Seen it on the other ram forum.
 

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Oh haha my b I didn't pick up on it lol u made me doubt myself and I thought I was drunk or something haha the front badge is painted but the rear Is plasti dipped. Still not sure I like the rear one though...
 

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Very nice work
 

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Lookin real good! It's fun to start a project like that and see it coming along.
 
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Got it lookin good

Thanks guys! Miss matched paint might look stupid but its better then rust. Hopefully in the spring I can pull out the door and the back corner and try to blend them a little bit better then the Massey ferguson grey I used on the fender haha
 
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A few more random pictures. Made the mistake of showing her this one on ebay:Grenade:
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Cant beat wal marts parking lot
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