Happy Birthday Dad.. The cab is finished!

Today on Dad's birthday we had Jeanette's famous oatmeal chocolate chip cake as his birthday cake, along with lots of fun gifts for Zach to help Dad open.. We also took a trip to Horvath Hotrods to check out the progress of the cab and to bolt it onto the chassis. The team at Horvath Hotrods never seem to do anything but amaze us. They've been working on the cab for a few weeks now re-working the firewall, replacing/repairing the floor and several rusted body panels as well as smoothing out the dash and making a new antenna mount.

Celebrating Glen's birthday.. You can see Zach waiting patiently for his chance to help blow out the candles

Zach could hardly wait to help Grandpa blow out his candles

Yep. Zach helped Grandpa open all of the best presents.. but the coolest was still ahead!

This was Grandpa's big gift.. the Cab completed, sitting in the paint booth waiting for us to pick it up!

Both Cab corners were replaced, and they were perfectly matched and welded to the cab.

The new firewall and floorboards look great from inside the cab.. You can also see the nice clean dashboard. The knobs holes (now obsolete with the new engine -Choke & Throttle) have been filled in as well as the stereo opening.

This is a good view of the cab once it was on the lift.. the firewall now has a wider setback to make room for the engine.

Cab being lowered onto the chassis.

Mounting the cab to the frame.

Setting the passenger door into the frame to make sure the cab was still properly aligned

Setting the drivers side door in place with Joe.. A perfect fit!

Checking out the truck.. So cool!

Returning to the house with the cab now attached

Time to roll this bad boy off of the trailer so we can get to work on it!