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| | | | Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 16 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 16 | Hello everybody,
I recently joined this forum because restoration of my 46 half ton truck is near completion and I still have to check some originality issues. Your member's albums are helpful albeit viewing costs time which could be spent in the workshop. But the weather is not that good currently, no heater in the workshop.
I have been restoring several motorbikes and cars, my flagship project so far has been an electric conversion of a 68 MGB Coupe:
https://mgb-gt-e.jimdo.com
The truck was in quite a good original shape, but nevertheless I had to disassemble everything except the rear axle and the engine, everything that can wear out, was worn out. I try to keep everything original (even some rust holes in the doors), just overhaul the mechanical parts and reuse as many parts as possible. No complete new paint job (in fact I'm conserving the paint with clear coat and a paintbrush!), no stainless bolts, no V8-engine and tranny-swap....
For a first impression, here are two photos:
https://abload.de/img/img_118008svu.jpg
https://abload.de/img/img_180091ssi.jpg
currently I'm working on bedwood (oak, will be flamed, brushed an sealed) and the doors.
Okay, from time to time i will let you know about this project, maybe I create a restoblog or an album...
Sven from Oldenburg, Germany
Last edited by mototreiber; 01/25/2018 10:48 AM.
Best wishes
Sven
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | Sven, welcome to the Stovebolt and thanks for sharing the pictures. Guys here are always willing to help just ask tech questions in the most appropriate forum for best answers.
I'm not familiar with trucks in Germany but I do see you have a left hand drive but am I missing something on the model year? Instead of being an 1949 Advance Design it appears to me to be a 40's Art Deco......but I may be wrong.
Anyway, glad to have you aboard. There are some other members here who may be close to you? Watch for them as you post and read the forums. See you around the garage.
......I also like your "plan" for it. Keep us posted and maybe start a build thread in the DIY forum which is a sub-forum of the Welcome Centre. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 Moderator | | Moderator Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,215 | Welcome Sven, I've been through your town before, although I usually visit more in the south. I met a stovebolter near Stuttgart just last summer, with a '54 pickup. I even gave him an official stovebolt banner.
I like your course of action, no V8, nice to keep it the way she was built. Stay in the right lane if you ever are on the Autobahn! Viel Gluck!
Leo | | | | | Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 16 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2018 Posts: 16 | ...just corrected my typewriting error... It's a 1946 Art Deco truck!
...and thanks for your replies!
Sven
Best wishes
Sven
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 2,063 Big Bolt Forum Moderator | | Big Bolt Forum Moderator Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 2,063 | | | |
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