To celebrate hitting the first 100K in my '97, I decided to see what I could do to give her a make-over with a $1,000 budget...

This included...
- removing & carpet-cleaning seats
- pulling out old gross carpeting (won't scare you with details of what I found under my kids' seats)
- removing interior trim,
- scrubbing clean, degreasing, priming, and rubberizing interior floor,
- adding new seat cover for front bench,
- scrubbing & sometimes sanding clean all interior vinyl & plastic
- removing, cleaning, degreasing, prepping, priming, and painting all exterior trim pieces,
- cleaning, degreasing, sanding, preppring, priming, & painting door jams,
- ditto tailgate jam,
- paying for exterior paint job,
- sanding, scrubbing, degreasing, prepping, priming & painting old rims with metallic silver along outer rim,
- painting interior of rims black
- replacing old rusted lug nuts with new chrome locking nuts
- spraying rubberized undercoating in needed areas underneath
- adding Ipod connector

Here are the results:

http://www.ksrcchapman.20m.com/cgi-b...ideshow/187486

 

truck looks brand new
and welcome to the site

 

Thanks! This site has been wonderfully helpful; finally joined

 

Looks good man.

welcome

 

Very nice!

 

looks awsome

 

looks killer! time to upgrade that front end!

 

That paint Job was less than 1,000$???

 

if you've got connections, its easy. my friend painted his f-body for only $200

 

Wow! Looks like a brand new truck!

 

looks good. I like the new paint job on both the truck and wheels. Here's to the next 100K

 

looks good but I would like to see closer interior shots.

 

Looks good man Welcome, but I agree wit Pmason. Interior shots FTW

 

Thats insane for 1k. Wish I could get my paint redone for that cheap.

 

maybe he just paid for the paint?? There's no way he did all that for under $1000 unless he got some really cheap paint job or did it himself.