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Howdy Blackburn, I was in two minds and was probably going to paint it green like the rest...... just ran out of steam. So, thanks for a timely kick up the arse; it’s now painted.

I mentioned earlier that the seat box was rather rusty, to the point that there was a couple of points that had rotted through. Scrubbed the thing inside and out to remove all but the good. Then basically put layer after layer of thick rust inhibitor, day after day. Looks grand now.... wee bit...

With all the gearbox tunnel stripped out lots of grinding back to metal and getting rust inhibitor on was the priority for a day. Then, the usual few coats of paint. Ordered a new gaiter for the hi/low selector which looks just as crap as the last one I ordered just last year so not holding much...

Found this front bit..... apron perhaps? It was tired and the bolt holes had rotted away. I was planning to ignore it but my Father in Law reckoned it’d look the part fitted. So, usual story.... back to metal, primed and painted. To get over the problem of the rotted bolt holes, made two wee...

Just a a very quick gander at your thread (brew break from mowing the grass). It looks so nice from the first pic but oooph, that chassis. Fair play to you mate.....that would’ve been too much for me. My purchase criteria was this: 1. Bulkhead not tooooooo bad (within reason). 2. Had to have a...

Hi Steve, cheers man.... nice to hear. I’ve never done anything like this before and sometimes, the enjoyment is matched by frustration. But, hopefully, we’ll get there. It’s a great lockdown distraction though.

You may see in the last pictures I have no gaiter for the hand brake. Looking on Google and forums, it seems the replacement gaiter is quite poor and need replacing.....often. So, decided to make my own. The photo showing it in situ was me just checking my hole positioning before i got filing...

Looking in the cab, it’s quite scabby. The passenger seat box is rusty and rotted through on a couple of small points. All the panels covering the gearbox etc were rusty and needing looked at; the only thing looking Ok was the Fairey bracket I made last year, from right angle brackets and rubber...

By my reckoning, that’s the back done. So moving onto the front will be my next major undertaking. Before that, decided to take a wee while to just potter with smaller bits. First in the list is old and scabby badges.

With the back empty, I thought I’d see if I could salvage a couple of rear seats from a big box of bits. From the four seats I had, it was easy to make two good/decent seats and with more work, could’ve made three. But for four I would have needed to spend money so settled on two seats. Took...

Door done and dusted, although in time reckon I’ll end up fitting a tailgate. Wasn’t planning on doing much in the back, but once I had a proper look, it became obvious that there was a fair amount of corrosion; there used to be foam ‘seats’ in the back that I reckon just stored salt water and...

Finally got all the bits and bobs stripped to nowt, then primed and painted back up again. Ready for some putting back together at last.

Onto the rear door glass today. Put the glass in loose to see how it fitted..... not good. There are some raised edges in the door frame meaning the glass was well away from the metal at some points (enough to fit corrugated cardboard in the gap). So decided to pinch the butyl tape together...

Putting the windows back is was easy, although I had to use some extra tape inside between the retainers and the glass, so extra pressure was applied when screwing in the retainer bars. Trimmed off the extra 3mm (ish) with a new Stanley blade and directed some water at the new seal. Worked a...

With the sun shining took the tarp of so I could get the rear windows done. As I said earlier, bought some butyl tape and wanted to try sealing the windows with it, to try and get a decent finish. Trying to stick that tape to the window opening lip was a nightmare. Then I thought, hand on, I’m...

With the rear door sat in the garage with paint drying, time to strip everything of old and scabby paint, several layers, several colours. Took the spare wheel plates back to metal and coated the lot in rust beater. Tidied the rear Door glass retainers and then thought, in for penny in for...

With the rear door off, decided to take out all the rear windows, so I can get a clean line between glass and frame. Bought some butyl tape from eBay so, once I get some paint on, I will get them refitted.

I was dreading taking the rear door of but, it needed doing. Pretty much every screw holding on the door card was rotten and I had very little success in getting them out - drilling or otherwise. As such, a fair bit of damage to the door card was done. I know I could’ve knocked up another one...

Well, got the bonnet stripped back, taking a few hours of dirty work with sanders and brushes. Treated the underside with hammerite rust beater (it’ll do untiI replace top hat sections.. post lockdown) and then primed the top with hammerite special metals primer. Pleased with the results but...

Indeed. When I stripped the trop roof my father in law was warning me of this..... using the example of a garage door that distorted under heat. I’m going ok with the sander for now, messy but quick.