Well here we are, the doors are all back in place and every square inch of the outside of the truck has been looked at. Now for some final wet sanding and the truck will be ready for some olive drab green!
A view from the rear of the cab.
Mirror bracket is pulled away here, but trying to show that all mirror holes were fixed and old ones from aftermarket mirrors were filled. Ready to go on with factory mirrors when time comes.
The interior will be all sanded out so we get a nice finish on inside of cab too.
All ready to go but you'll have to wait just a bit more for the final outcome!
With so few M-677’s left in existence and the fate of Willys motors in 1964 all but a distant memory, there are not a lot of the hard facts of some of the detail of these trucks. One aspect that was never really tracked down was did the 677’s have headliners in them or not? If you look at the underside of the roof there is something sprayed up there but was it adhesive or not? Well, M-677 experts from the West Coast, The Sunny Southwest and even as far away as Northern Iowa were polled and they came up with the consensus that these trucks never had headliners but the material applied to the roof might be some sort of deadener for insulating heat and noise inside of the truck. With that knowledge Kevin shot several samples and he ended up using a Duplicolor rubberized and paintable undercoat product to duplicate the texture from factory. It looks spot on to the original texture.
