Manky's Pop.

[Manky Monkey]

   Yeah, looks too much like a slaughterhouse to me!
As Kev says, darker or more aged looking reds might work, but I want to stick to something similar to the website logo colour. I'll see if the upholstery people will send me a small sample of both.

[Archie]

Paint it brown.

ALL BROWN.

MARREKESH BROWN.

It's my new favourite colour.

[one arm bandit]

i think the black with red pipeing is just enough to give it an outline and stop it feeling cramped.

[trev]

here here.

[Dslam]

That's that then. Job done!!

[Archie]

i think the brown with brown pipeing is just enough to give it an outline and stop it feeling cramped.

[Archie]

Guess it's going to look a bit like this when painted.

Manky's Pop.

[Archie]

Doh meant to put this one up

Manky's Pop.

[panthershaun]

nah, Mankies has better wheels/tyres than that 

[Archie]

Yarp.

I only said a bit like.

[Manky Monkey]

Aye, something like that Archie. 
I collected the leather straps for the fuel tank from the upholsterer this morning. Cut to length, with loops stitched on the ends. Done in one day for 25 quid. I borrowed Taz's saddlery hole punch to make the holes. Now I need to make some fittings to hold down the loose ends of the straps, probably from offcuts of 6mm stainless steel rod, so the ends are only roughly cut to length at the moment. We'd originally planned to use 2 inch wide straps. These are 1 1/4", but wider straps would need wider mounting brackets, which would mean wider cradles. It's not a huge tank though, so these look in proportion.

[Manky Monkey]

I've fitted a new stainless steel locking petrol cap. The tank stands proud of the pick-up bed & level with the bonnet. Sort of planned that way.

[Manky Monkey]

The World is a very small place:
Before the main site crashed last year, we had a page called "Street Shots", where I posted snapshots of interesting vehicles just being used as daily drivers, that I spotted on my travels. Although we altered the site's Main Page, so it only links to pages we knew were virus free, the rest of the site is still accessible if you use an old link or have saved a page deeper in the site. Seems a lot of people are still viewing the old pages that way -with no virus problems.
Anyway, among those Street Shots pics were a couple of small ones of a Ford P100 pick-up, (the now discontinued Ford Sierra based commercial). I took the photos in a housing estate in Basingstoke, Hampshire. The truck had a "dually" conversion -double rear wheels, covered by wide, boxy rear arches.
That was about 3 years ago. 2 days ago I got an email from a guy in Holland. He's a mechanic & also owns a P100. He'd found the pics on the site & loved the look of the dually conversion & wants to build one as his workshop runabout. He asked for more up to date pics or build details. So I went back to the housing estate & after the second trip, found the truck. By pure chance the owner was working nearby on another car. He's swapped the twin wheels for single, super wide American rims & is in the process of stretching the front end to create a 4 door crew cab, using panels from another donor Sierra.
We got chatting & it turned out he'd seen my truck at the Basingstoke Festival of Transport a few weeks ago. He asked what engine I used. Rover V8.
"I found a video on YouTube the other day of 2 blokes firing up a Rover in a lock-up garage -I recognised it as my old engine"
-"That was us!" Loony & me starting the engine before we started work on the truck!
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0RTqZDSuDU

So by pure chance, I've found the guy who owned the engine in our Pop before the bloke I bought it from. Weird.

[poprodder]

very small world andy.

[Manky Monkey]

No progress today cos Loony was over my way in Guildford, Surrey for the day. He spent 7 hours at the tattoo studio, topping up his ink collection.
He sent me these pics -recognise it?