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« Reply #9360 on: April 06, 2017, 06:04:06 AM » |
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as an ex boatbuilder i'm liking the wood(ooeerr mrs!!!!)
your getting there andy. big thumbs up.
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« Reply #9361 on: April 06, 2017, 09:05:21 AM » |
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I don't like wooden box pick-ups cos they look like someone's plonked a garden shed on the back of their car. Also not keen on stake beds -the ones with upright posts & a couple of planks along each side -to me, they look like farm trucks & should be driven by a Mexican guy & loaded up with water melons.
So this is a compromise. Something to fill the back of the chassis without looking too boxy. I was thinking vintage beer truck -the early motorised equivalent of the old horse drawn brewer's drays.
I've found a Cuprinol wooden garden furniture paint that's a pretty good match for the cab, so everything that's wood will be painted green.
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Our lady of blessed acceleration, don't fail me now! - Elwood Blues
Nitro doesn't add power, it multiplies it! Bob Loux, running 10.07 secs @138mph on a 650 normally aspirated Triumph drag bike in 1965!
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« Reply #9362 on: April 06, 2017, 04:16:27 PM » |
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« Reply #9363 on: April 07, 2017, 06:53:50 PM » |
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Don't know if these would be of any use Andy, but just saw them over on Facebook and thought of you  Manky's Pop. |
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« Reply #9364 on: April 07, 2017, 08:43:48 PM » |
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Hiya Clive.
I paid £60 for the pair of doors I've got. They're fine. I'm just playing about with window options, that's all. Thank you.
I've got some stainless U channel to make new window glass runners from.
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« Reply #9365 on: April 07, 2017, 08:44:35 PM » |
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The new front one will go about here.
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« Reply #9366 on: April 07, 2017, 08:47:42 PM » |
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And Mr Hornet has made me a rather splendid pair of recessed trays to hold some Lucas reflectors that I had in my spares box. I plan to set them into the bottom of the doors, so that they'll show when the doors are open at night. I'm going to re-do the bottom panels on the doors, so can weld them in from the back then. Thanks Jon.
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« Reply #9367 on: April 07, 2017, 08:48:31 PM » |
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Nicely done.
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« Reply #9368 on: April 07, 2017, 08:50:32 PM » |
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Picked up some angle iron from B & Q & cut a section to go across the back of the pick-up bed. It'll hide the warping of the boards & protect the edge of the wood, plus I'll weld a number plate mount to the bottom of it. It'll be powder-coated gloss black.
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« Reply #9369 on: April 07, 2017, 08:52:56 PM » |
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They look good and will add a little safety when you have the door open. Are you at the garage after work tomorrow or will we take the afternoon off.
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« Reply #9370 on: April 07, 2017, 08:55:44 PM » |
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At the bike garage with Tom tomorrow, looking at the XS wiring. back at the Pop garage on Sunday.  |
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« Reply #9371 on: April 07, 2017, 09:04:59 PM » |
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« Reply #9372 on: April 07, 2017, 09:17:24 PM » |
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« Reply #9373 on: April 08, 2017, 06:35:38 AM » |
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Hiya Clive.
I paid £60 for the pair of doors I've got. They're fine. I'm just playing about with window options, that's all. Thank you.
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« Reply #9374 on: April 08, 2017, 10:18:44 AM » |
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I know, but I wanted steel -that's why I went with the American ones.
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