Martin's mi-STRESS, 1965 Long Fleetside C10 "Rebuild in ENGLAND"

[Ta2Don]

Awesome Day!!! Thanks for the preview and shots from Paris...

Armadillos??? Aradillos here are normally belly up...

[Johnny_Lamebridge]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

I feel a bit pisssed off as there "extra" holes let down the chrome and the show...... It looks like the extra hole was laser cut, and the chrome around this hole is rubbish, or non existent.

Any advice on my perception here happily accepted.

Hello Martin & Rian,
I've been following along on your C10 adventures. I too have purchased a 67-72 rear bumper for my 63. After reading about the quality issues you mention above, I checked the bumper that I purchased last week. Surprise, surprise... I have the same issue. My bumper was an "OER" brand, that I picked up at Summit Racing on my drive home from my vacation in Florida. Returning the bumper isn't really an option for me due to shipping cost from Canada, or I could drive it back, 5 hours each way.

I like Ta2Don's idea of adding a bumper bolt to fill each hole. An easy fix.

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by Johnny_Lamebridge

Hello Martin & Rian,
I've been following along on your C10 adventures. I too have purchased a 67-72 rear bumper for my 63. After reading about the quality issues you mention above, I checked the bumper that I purchased last week. Surprise, surprise... I have the same issue. My bumper was an "OER" brand, that I picked up at Summit Racing on my drive home from my vacation in Florida. Returning the bumper isn't really an option for me due to shipping cost from Canada, or I could drive it back, 5 hours each way.

I like Ta2Don's idea of adding a bumper bolt to fill each hole. An easy fix.

Johnny we are in the same vote with the cost of shipping it back to brothers . The worst thing is I contacted them a week ago,with pictures and asked there take on it, and still have no answer . The most disappointing thing is if you have followed my thread you would have seen how much we have spent with them .

VERY POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE COMES TO MIND

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Johnny we are in the same vote with the cost of shipping it back to brothers . The worst thing is I contacted them a week ago,with pictures and asked there take on it, and still have no answer . The most disappointing thing is if you have followed my thread you would have seen how much we have spent with them .

VERY POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE COMES TO MIND

Thanks for the above reply Johnny, I think companies like this rely on many customers just putting up with bad service.

The best way to deal with them would be solidarity in voting with your feet and wallet, but usually we do not do that.

Still, after the rain there is sunshine.......

Quality is ****e, and we will be painting the rears of the bumpers with Hammerite as well, as most seem to rust from behind first, so prevention etc....

However, this quality issue has allowed us to investigate and seek other solutions to the holes.

One of them Martin found ( I think he is part Bloodhound ) is very small LED Spotlights that fit the holes with a neat ally nut/neck and even if you need to enlarge the holes by a few mm's it would be fine as it already is "damaged" there.

Both of us have to reverse down the side of our homes to park up in our garages, as the properties here are often narrow, and in my case, it would take a 27 point turn to get the truck turned around at the garage, so having reversing lights makes a load of sense.

In the UK we need to have separate turn signals, so my reverse lights have become turn signals, leaving the truck without adequate reversing lights for when I come home late from car shows etc.
The bumper holes are too low to put turn signals into as well for safety as they would be out of sight.

So the search goes on to find a perfect replacement or filler for the holes.

[mjh1965]

Well with all the other jobs now done ,hand controls for Russell and taking Rian to collect his cabinet, Saturday came and went . So with nothing planed for Sunday and the other half waking up with a cold . I know it's wrong to be pleased that your other half wants to stay in all day feeling unwell but, that ment truck time so off to the garage I went . After getting the panels from top banana via Arkansas (thanks Don ) . I started getting the kick panel done and fitted the panel Rian made for me

Before



The panels from Don



All fitted







At last it's starting to go back together

[flashed]

I follow both of your builds as well ,Rian is quite handy with whatever he is playing with whether it be wood or steel or stone .

[clemdaddy]

nice job Martin... going back together... and done right.

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by flashed

I follow both of your builds as well ,Rian is quite handy with whatever he is playing with whether it be wood or steel or stone .

Yes he is .I had to re make the centre section after getting the lower panels from Don . I did use the upper panel he made though it's good to have a friend that shares the same interest

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

nice job Martin... going back together... and done right.

Thanks Clem . I only want to do this once,so I try to do it correctly. It did hold me up waiting for the panels but I think it was worth the wait to get it right

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Thanks Clem . I only want to do this once,so I try to do it correctly. It did hold me up waiting for the panels but I think it was worth the wait to get it right

The wait was also good to help clear all the snot and tears you cried when you started to open up your can of worms. I was wishing for a lottery win at one point, just so I could get you a decent cab...... In the USA most people would have thrown away your cab, but you persevered.

Really well done mate.

Amanda should get sick more often

[mjh1965]

Well I got home from work and went straight to the garage. The first job was to cut down the repair panel so the join is under the rocker panel . That way no filler is required over the join



Once marked it was then cut to match the cut on the repair section



Next was to offer up the repair section



Once lined up it was out with the welder



After welding it in place I offered up the rocker panel with no sign of a repair section fitted



Job done

[bj383ss]

Looks good Martin

[Ta2Don]

Great Progress Mate!!!

[mjh1965]

We'll I got a little bit more done this afternoon. After I got all the usual jobs done Saturday morning . I went into the garage and got the inner rocker and floor section welded in. Another step nearer if only a small one





Next step is to turn it back over hang the door and fit the outer rocker . Then start all over again on the other side

[flashed]

Looks very nice ,I wish I had that talent .

[Ta2Don]

Progress is progress...

When's the Essex meet?

[Ta2Don]

Posting this for Rian and his mates... Rian's wife called them 4 of the 7 dwarfs...
This was taken just at the Swap Meet in Essex before the gates owned and the spending ensued...
Rian will post more of the results later…

Not sure of the order, but the pic includes, Rian, Kerry, Jim and Martin...

[Grizz1963]

I was tempted not to post up these pics as requested, as Martin would rather search out all the Cherry Bargains than take photos........

Thanks to Don for posting up the early pic I texted through to him.

Mate Martin, Disasterbus and Jim and I met up early today to go seek bargains for our vehcles.

Spured on by all the bargains he got last year, including a door for his truck at £100.00, new front screen rubber for a tenner and a full new cab mount rubber kit for £35.00 we all had our skates on.


And it was Martin who drew first blood with a lovely pair of old skool bullet shaped chrome lights, with interchangeable clear or red lenses.

Through the day we all found real bargains and items we wanted or needed.

Kerry, Disasterbus got a brand new full rear rollpan for his truck at £40.00, that he will probably bring over soon, to weld up and probably paint at my place. He also picked up a lovely old sideplate sized V8 hubcap for garage art.

My bargain of the day was a pair of 2.5" used stainless tailpiece tips that took me an hour or more to clean up with metal polish. Not perfect, as I really wanted a set of square/rectangular Range Rover type tips. But at £10.00 for the pair, I had to have them.

Here then are the pics, as they came off my mobile phone camera.













I have also wanted a pair of bumper over riders as long as I have had the truck, this vendor was prepared to let me have these for £25.00 although they are Pre-60 items, and if I could make them fit, I would then have to get them chromed, so the voice of reasoning suggested I wait till I find a pair of chromed ones, so I walked away.



Dead cool hearse, sounded rather nice and quietly menacing when it drove by later.



I think I would like one of these.......



At that price I ask myself, what did the seller pay for it and to land it here?



TECHNOLOGY !! LOVE IT !!

Martin Googling some pics to show Disasterbus what his Stepside would look like with a rear rollpan fitted.

Of course that made the decision easy.













60-66 Chevy C10's seem to be suddenly picking up in presence and value. Good news for all owners I guess.





Another C10. Read description.



OHHHHH HOW I WANT ONE OF THESE.

Never seen one of them before, no idea what they are called.



















Chevy Power in a Ford.





Quite like these.







This was just perfectly understated and clean.





There were many more, and a few nice cars that I missed for various reasons.

Again a great Swapmeet, meeting old mates and finding bits needed for builds.

Just needed to be warmer.

[flashed]

No wonder I cant find anything at swapmeets ,its all over there .Im going to try my best to get to a meet this weekend to sell a few parts I dont need .Thanks for the pics .

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by flashed

No wonder I cant find anything at swapmeets ,its all over there .Im going to try my best to get to a meet this weekend to sell a few parts I dont need .Thanks for the pics .

We do get a good turn out at this meet. The American and hot rod seen in the UK is quite large . But it was definitely a lot warmer when I went to the NSRA swap meet and show in Tampa last October

[mjh1965]

Well this is the my little haul . Not as good as last year but still ok . Like Rian I got at shirt (note to one self make sure not to wear it at the same time) Some small cutting discs, a set of Allen key sockets, and two circular hole cutters and best of all two small chrome lamps with interchangeable lenses White or red to fill I the holes in the rear bumper .



While at the show I got a text from an eBay seller. I had bid and won on a push bike £25 very cheep for a Marin 21 speed mountain bike . So after Rian had left my house myself and Amanda took a drive down to Dover to collect it



So a good day had by all

[Ta2Don]

Nice score in Essex and on the bike as well...

[Ta2Don]

Decal ordered mate, will chat when I hear from him...

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Decal ordered mate, will chat when I hear from him...

Thanks again Don speak to you soon

[disasterbus]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

While at the show I got a text from an eBay seller. I had bid and won on a push bike £25 very cheep for a Marin 21 speed mountain bike .

You want some new tyres for that Marin MTB Martin? I have a pile of spare 26" knobblies in the shed