My 2005 Lariat- From the beginning.

[kozal01]

Ok, I figured I would gather a few pics to show the evolution of my truck since I got it.

I purchased the truck in May of 2009 from a salvage yard about 50 miles out of town, I found it on craigslist by accident and fell in love with it. Now I dont by my trucks like most do, I buy them wrecked so its a little bit different process but also very similar. My father owns a collision repair shop so all the work is either done by a professional (him) or done by a rookie (me) being supervised by a professional. (him) The truck had been in a roll over accident and totaled, it had 49K on it and I picked it up for $5500 out the door.

Here is the original ad I found for it.

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The next set of pics starts from the salvage lot where I test drove it (it was drive-able) bought it and then drove it back to town where we began the rebuild.

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The tear down

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The bending and fixing. (these posted out of order for some reason)

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The finished product, 6 months later.

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Some randoms.

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How she sits now.

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Just rolled over to 90K yesterday and she's been a great truck and she's tough as nails. She endured another accident last February and took it like a champ, busted some plastic she came back for more, once again. Love this truck!

[Jersey_Joe]

Holy crap. Bravo bro. U do all that?!? Great job

[RhinoZ24]

Holy recovery job lol. That was a ton of work you put into her, great job!

[kozal01]

Thanks guys. I cant take all the credit for this, my father is the one with the real talent, the way he can work steel is an art. I did the grunt work.

[djfllmn]

So in other words you sanded the mud lol

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[kozal01]

So in other words you sanded the mud lol

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I turned wrenches, did the disassembly and reasembly, drilled out spot welds and stripped paint. I did a little body work but that is just mot my forte, I let the pro handle that.

[RhinoZ24]

Well if I ever need major body work done on my truck, I'm sending it to you haha. You guys did a fantastic job on a truck most people would scrap.

[kozal01]

Well if I ever need major body work done on my truck, I'm sending it to you haha. You guys did a fantastic job on a truck most people would scrap.

Thanks man. My father has been doing this for almost 40 years now and even though I grew up around it I still cant look at things like this and say "****, I thought you said it was wrecked?" like he does. lol