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

[Ta2Don]

Glad to see you back after it mate! Bathroom looks great and so does the truck work!

[Grizz1963]

I have been updated on the bathroom for some time, and I can only say.....

WOW !!!

That came out lovely.


Well done on the rocker work and getting Sally to help with the door.

[clemdaddy]

Very good progress in just a half days work. Glad you are back on the truck buddy and look forward to more.
Sally should be proud, as nice as her bathroom looks.

[realvc]

It is great to hear from you Martin.

The bathroom looks really nice and the so does body work on the truck.

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by Palf70Step

You did a GREAT job on the bathroom.

Truck work looks good too.

Thanks Bill , Sally thought so too

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Glad to see you back after it mate! Bathroom looks great and so does the truck work!

Thanks Don . It's good to get the time to work on it again

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

I have been updated on the bathroom for some time, and I can only say.....

WOW !!!

That came out lovely.


Well done on the rocker work and getting Sally to help with the door.

Thanks Rian . It won't be long before you can work on yours again . I know like me you have had lots of distractions. Getting Sally to help with the door is easy doing the bathroom to earn the brownie points was the hard part

Originally Posted by clemdaddy

Very good progress in just a half days work. Glad you are back on the truck buddy and look forward to more.
Sally should be proud, as nice as her bathroom looks.

Thanks Clem I am glad to be working on the truck again . There will be more updates soon .

Originally Posted by realvc

It is great to hear from you Martin.

The bathroom looks really nice and the so does body work on the truck.

Thanks Vince , she was very happy with the end result.

[ibrown50]

Great to see you back on the truck Martin and it's always handy to have a nice bath to get into after a hard days graft on your truck, you can get so dirty I agree with Clem thats really good progress for half a days work

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

Great to see you back on the truck Martin and it's always handy to have a nice bath to get into after a hard days graft on your truck, you can get so dirty I agree with Clem thats really good progress for half a days work

Thanks Ian , but I think I would have to have a bath at mine, before Sally would let me in her bathroom .

I had to make a start on the truck again with the way you and Bill are putting the boys down south to shame .

[Chevy Apache]

Nice to see your back at it with the truck must be catching

[MacQuigley]

At the rate I'm going you'll soon catch up! The motivation is bring sucked right out of me right now.

The Vette's not helping as its pissing me off trying to get it registered and of course I decided to do a "little" to it which a always one thing has lead to another etc.

That said the hood is coming along. Should get more of that done this weekend.

Anyway keep up the good work and maybe one day we can all get together somewhere. Would be nice to d that to celebrate our 60th's or maybe 65th's!!!!

[mjh1965]

Well today I had a choice go to a local car show , or get some truck time in . The reason for this , it was a Bank holiday over here in the U.K. So an extra days holiday off work for me .

Well the truck won , being a very warm and sunny day, it was time to get the rocker welded on .But first I needed to get my door gaps nice and tight .

The Door gaps









With the rocker all welded on





So next will be to get it in primer , then start the other side .

[MacQuigley]

Looking good Martin. Wish Id had the space to assemble it all like that before welding up. Would likely have saved me a load of time yet to come!

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by MacQuigley

Looking good Martin. Wish Id had the space to assemble it all like that before welding up. Would likely have saved me a load of time yet to come!

Thanks Bill . Its great having the room , but unfortunately I don't have any room inside to work , now the cab is on the chassis. So any truck time is weather permitting .

[ibrown50]

Nice job Martin, the door gaps look great. Good to see you using the bank holiday on the truck I'm thinking about using a repop fender on my drivers side rather than repairing the original. Yours looks to be a decent fit.

[MacQuigley]

Originally Posted by mjh1965

Its great having the room , but unfortunately I don't have any room inside to work , now the cab is on the chassis. So any truck time is weather permitting .

At least I did have space inside to work on the cab but I know what you mean about having to work outside once its on the chassis. I'm off come Friday for two weeks. My first task is to put a proper roof over that "carport" I built last year and then extend the roof of the garage over to meet it. At least that will keep the rain off.

[MacQuigley]

Originally Posted by ibrown50

I'm thinking about using a repop fender on my drivers side rather than repairing the original. Yours looks to be a decent fit.

Hi Ian, I bought 2 repop fenders and I have to say I'm not that impressed with them. Overall they are OK and I will get them to fit but there are wholes that have to be opened out and even some in the wrong places. And the front end inserts are not welded in correctly. I'm not going to bother drilling them out and rewilding, I'll live with it, because the metal is much thinner than the originals and I'll end up blowing holes in it and doing the bodywork I was trying to avoid by buying them in the first place.

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by MacQuigley

Hi Ian, I bought 2 repop fenders and I have to say I'm not that impressed with them. Overall they are OK and I will get them to fit but there are wholes that have to be opened out and even some in the wrong places. And the front end inserts are not welded in correctly. I'm not going to bother drilling them out and rewilding, I'll live with it, because the metal is much thinner than the originals and I'll end up blowing holes in it and doing the bodywork I was trying to avoid by buying them in the first place.

Mine came from Brothers and so far I am happy with them, but time will tell when I start assembling the rest of the front end . I just didn't want patch panels possibly rusting , after spending all the time it takes doing the painting

[Grizz1963]

Impressive stuff !!!!

Well done, really well done.

I spent the weekend between entertaining the McMurphy's and over at Katy's

The weather was just perfect this weekend.

[Ta2Don]

Looking great mate!!! Well done!

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by Grizz1963

Impressive stuff !!!!

Well done, really well done.

I spent the weekend between entertaining the McMurphy's and over at Katy's

The weather was just perfect this weekend.

Thanks Rian yes the weather really helped

Originally Posted by Ta2Don

Looking great mate!!! Well done!

Thanks Don
I have a few days off in September , so all being well and weather permitting , I hope to get the other side down .

[bj383ss]

Looking good Martin.

Bret

[mjh1965]

Originally Posted by bj383ss

Looking good Martin.

Bret

Thanks Bret .
How's yours going ? hopefully all ok the the weather you have been having .

[mjh1965]

Well no truck time last weekend

The reason was fellow truck guy Pete in Brighton has been married for 25 years . To celebrate this Pete and his wife Ria had there vows renewed.

So Saturday morning myself and Sally headed to Brighton on the south coast , my job for the day was to drive Pete's truck from the church to the reception , as he had driven it there and was traveling back to the reception in the Cadillac with Ria

Pulling away in the truck , the first time for Sally traveling in a Classic Chevy





The wedding car


The happy couple



Handing back the keys to the truck to Pete



Pete happy to have his truck back



Pete's build thread
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=704658

[MacQuigley]

I was about to reply by saying "what no burnouts"!

I shouldnt have worried. It was there at the end.

[Palf70Step]

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by MacQuigley

I was about to reply by saying "what no burnouts"!

I shouldnt have worried. It was there at the end.

Pete certainly is the Burnout King.

Cool pics Martin.