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

[mjh1965]

Thanks for posting Rian. The reason for wanting the clock out of a Ford Mondeo is it matches the face of my after market clocks . The good thing about them is the plastic over the front comes off,enabling you to get to the face and blank out the ford logo. Rian suggested putting a little Chevy decal over it . So next job will to to sorce a very small Chevy decal .

These are my clocks

[disasterbus]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

These are my clocks

I like that, it's going to look very cool when installed. Sorry I missed you guys today when you were passing through.

[mjh1965]

Thanks Kerry .
It would have been nice to see your truck while we over your way . But with the weather the way it was ,it would have been unfair to expect you to uncover the truck anyway. I am sure we will be over that way again,and if not it gives you a good reason to drive over to Rian's to show it off . I would also like to thank you for the copy of the wiring diagram Rian gave me from you

[Palf70Step]

It snows in England?

Sounds like a good day!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

It snows in England?

Sounds like a good day!

Problem is, the country grinds to a halt after 25mm snow.

[Palf70Step]

Sounds like down here in the southeast, especially here on the Mississippi coast. Probably good though, they would kill themselves on the road.

[CRGRS 66]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

Problem is, the country grinds to a halt after 25mm snow.

Funny how you reference millimeters, here in southern Ontario we count the snow in centimeters, if you travel an hour north of here, you start counting feet of snow. Even a little south of here in Buffalo New York, they get lake effect snow, they get feet of snow at times. Difficult to imagine, but you want to talk about grinding to a halt, in Buffalo this past December they had 5-6 feet of snow, there were people stranded on highways for 3+ days.

I shovelled my back deck tonight in order to grill dinner in -8C (17F), how Canadian is that!!!

Keep up the great work Rian!

[Ta2Don]

Nice Score!
As to Craigerr's comment… I don't know about Canadian, because I've shoveled snow on the back deck to fire up the grill as well...

Cheers!

[CURSED GEARS]

I am enjoying your thread. Always amazes me the cost to build one of our trucks over seas. P.S, what the heck is a "bacon buttie"?

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by CURSED GEARS

I am enjoying your thread. Always amazes me the cost to build one of our trucks over seas. P.S, what the heck is a "bacon buttie"?

Lots of well fried bacon on a thickly buttered white bread roll (can use sliced white bread) with either red sauce (Ketchup) or Brown sauce (HP Sauce)

Keeping an eye out half the butter and sauce does not end up on your chest or new trainers.

Real English Soul Food. ;-))

[CURSED GEARS]

Kind of figured it was some kind of sandwich. Can't go wrong with bacon!

[mjh1965]

I was hoping to do a bit on the truck tonight ,but ended up with a late Finnish . I had to drive into London , so this morning I took the ferry as the Blackwell tunnel was congested
I thought I would share the pictures I took from my van today






This picture shows the Thames Barrier in the background



This was taken in the traffic (at the lights) waiting to enter the Blackwall Tunnel on my way home

[mjh1965]

Well when I got home from work this evening ,there was a parcel waiting for me . The parts I had ordered from Top Banana had arrived . But it wasn't as simple as that ,Top Banana for some reason don't deliver to the UK . So the parts have to be sent to Don (Ta2Don) in Searcy AR he then very kindly re addresses the parcel then he goes to his local post office and sends them to the UK for me . Once again trying to restore these trucks without the help of some very kind Americans would be a lot harder . So Thank you Don



So if we don't get to much snow this weekend I hope to get some more welding done at the weekend . Stay tuned for the update

[Ta2Don]

You are Very Welcome mate!!!
I relied heavily on Family and Friends when I was living on Terceira, Island which is located 900 miles off the coast of Portugal. I was there in the military and although we had all the amenities of any AF Base, there were also shortages on certain items. So packages from stateside made life on the island a bit easier.

Now, get to making sparks!!!

[Grizz1963]

MINI ROAD TRIP !!

Well, it was a trip, and it was by road.

Got contacted by our import agent this week to say our bits had landed and been unpacked. Duties and shipping to be paid on collection.

So Martin and I set off early, also to meet up with Paul Y en-route before collecting our parts from Ron.

Perfect weather.



Spent about 90 minutes with Paul talking truck, especially his plans for Woody.



As always we spent quite a long time chatting cars, imports and the state of the nation before collecting our bits and setting off.





Managed to negotiate Ron out of a cool plate for my collection, from his wall.



On the way back one of the landmarks I always miss out on photographing was this pub.




One of the items we collected was our 67-72 rear bumpers.

NOW QUESTION TIME.... ???

This is relevant to Martin and I as we both bought the same bumpers.

I never realized that there were more holes in them than the two bumper bolt holes.

On top of that, 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.



This is the extra hole, and also there are two notches in the bottom edge on each side of the number plate recess.




Up close.





After Martin left to go see to the dogs and Amanda, possibly in that order, I went to the garage to carry on figuring out the tow bar.

[clemdaddy]

i envy you guys for your friendship and how you share your truck lives. over here it seems to be work work work work, eat, sleep, work work work...

taking time out to share is priceless, as they say.

on that weird hole on your bumpers... my guess is that is where the platers attached to dip. since theres no chrome around the hole, they must have bolted through that hole to the arm that lowers bumpers into the vats. just guessing...

looking forward to you coming stateside Martin, we'll have a blast.

[Ta2Don]

My vote… Clean up the extra hole area and touch up with some silver rattle can paint, then fill hole with Bumper bolt...

[Grizz1963]

Have you had a reply from Brothers about the quality issue on the bumpers yet Martin?

[mjh1965]

No mate there customer service is very poor. I guess I will have to make a long distance call

[mjh1965]

Rian came over to do some naughty things with me today, involving a camera and some hard equipment.

He made a film.............

Take a look at the video below

Playstation Hand Controls. - YouTube

I am really pleased with the outcome of this job. It took a lot longer than ever expected, but it now works so bloody perfectly, it really is the dogs bollox.

[Ta2Don]

[Paul Y]

Well done Martin, your truck is going to be fantastic if that what you an come up with for a Playstation.

P.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Originally Posted by Paul Y

Well done Martin, your truck is going to be fantastic if that what you an come up with for a Playstation.

P.

I agree on the hats off.

Thing is, Martin and I both ride bikes (often like hooligans) and could as easily be in the same situation after one off.......

Russell was 6'4" standing and used to work as a bouncer/doorman after hours to make up for the basic shortfall in fire service salaries, so a big guy, still muscular, but because his injury was quite high, he does not have all the upper body strength needed to do stuff like use power tools etc.

So the least we can do is help him out as he could have dragged our arses out of a fire, or from under a car wreck in the past.

This is a guy who served us in the past.

[Ta2Don]

Any word from Brothers?

[Grizz1963]

Today Martin and I went over to Disasterbus, Kerry's place after I "rented" his Mondeo ST Estate to collect a 1.97 meter by 1.0 meter rolling door steel filing cabinet for my garage, and to check out his Stepside C10 Chevy.



First things first was a thorough inspection and critique of Kerry's truck, which it turns out, is even better than shown on his thread, he really got a clean, low mileage truck.
And I loved the 175/80 -15 tyres on the rear, they do suit the arches just right.





After 3 hours, coffee, inspecting his Classic Mk1 Mini Cooper, pleasing/teasing the hound and a load of chatting it started to come down with sleet and some rain mixed in.......

We decided it was time to hand him back to his family, and load up the cabinet and head for home with our bounty..... Which included the cabinet, and large Nike shoe box full of American car magazines and best of all in my book, a manual fire alarm bell which will be mounted on the side of the house on the wall for Post men, deliveries etc in case I am down at the garage.

Thanks a mil for the hospitality and gifts Kerry, good to see you again as always.



Tight fit once the cabinet was in the back of the car...... 75 miles crunched up like armadillos, a breeze.





Said Fire Alarm bell, note the handle, you turn the handle to make it ring.

I am sure the delivery guys will get a kick out of cranking that sucker over.



When we got in, I started up the oven to cook the pizzas Nicola had left for us, as she has gone to Paris for a week with her daughter.
While we were over at Kerry's place we noticed that his filler cap was not a locking cap, fortunately I had a locking GM unit, unused, that Martin had given me to try on my tank, on which it does not fit for some reason, so I fetched it, and some of the other ones, now Kerry just needs to choose the right one for his truck, then it will be out in the post along with the sheet metal glove box inner I will be cutting, folding for him tomorrow.



All in all, another great day out, thank to our shared hobby of old cars, trucks.