interesting surf on the bay

[PDR]

It looks really awful, a total waste of time…. and it’s a 2.4 diesel as well

[yoshie]

Well yep it's a mess but full credit to the guy for giving it ago
I wonder how my critics could have done a neater job?

I know many will argue, he shouldn't have started it till he had fully researched it and was sure both his equipment and skill were up to it.
I spent years taking trials and motocross bikes to bits and rebuilding them first one at 13yr with only the boldness of a know it all teenager and some old manuals,and they wern't all a glowing success. But, I learned and improved surley this is the point. Give the guy a break hats off for trying and good luck with the next one. I think he sums up a lot of the spirt of this forum and I for one would welcome him as a member.

[Highlander1]

Well yep it's a mess but full credit to the guy for giving it ago
I wonder how my critics could have done a neater job?

I know many will argue, he shouldn't have started it till he had fully researched it and was sure both his equipment and skill were up to it.
I spent years taking trials and motocross bikes to bits and rebuilding them first one at 13yr with only the boldness of a know it all teenager and some old manuals,and they wern't all a glowing success. But, I learned and improved surley this is the point. Give the guy a break hats off for trying and good luck with the next one. I think he sums up a lot of the spirt of this forum and I for one would welcome him as a member.

I don't think anyones personally knocking the bloke, we don't know enough about him yet

Maybe he bought it as seen from someone else as a one careful owner and expert coach work conversion. Then we might take the pee.

If he joins the forum I'd welcome him on board

He might even get some tips on using a DA sander.

I wonder if the truck had been rolled perhaps with the damage on the side and it was an insurance write off bought back for 1 and sixpence and bodged up to make a quick grand.

[yoshie]

Hmm the insurance buy back makes a lot of sense never thought of that Im not sure he will get his grand mind

[TonyN]

Well yep it's a mess but full credit to the guy for giving it ago
I wonder how my critics could have done a neater job?

Exactly, It's nearly there, but not quite. When I was thinking of doing my old grey 4 door, I did a lot of planning.

My thinking....
It needs the beds sides the same height as the top of the tail gate, use the rear of the roof as the filler panel for the back window, use the orginal tailgate welded in behind the seats, this will let you keep the wind down back window, and finish the back of the cab nicely. Bobtail whats left of the bed back as close as you can keeping the wheel arch. Then another tailgate with the top filled in for the new tailgate, top the bed sides neatly and it'll look smart.

Like a unibody double cab, but with slighly shorter wheel base, with all the goodies that come inside a surf.

This was the mock up.....



Then I got the 2 door body, cut up that one and doing the same to a 2 door meant no headroom in the back, so it got shelved!!

[Highlander1]

Finished with a chrome exhaust up the back pillar Tony.

I have been tinkering with the old plastic filler and pop rivets since I was 16yr old.

First bike was a Honda C90.

I progressed onto a Hillman at 17years then a Triumph Toledo filled the wings with pudding and mesh. Then painted it with a 4" brush and Dulux non drip gloss. Nice. !

I has a Chrysler Alpine, a coke bottle shaped Cortina GXL which had no petrol tank so used a 2 gallon can, one of those old 1930s jobs in the boot.

Then progressed from cutting bits of metal pop rivet gun and filler to welding and replacing and fabricating panels by hand. And even a course on carpet weaving to replace the black woollen carpets and then the resin pour on the veneer dash boards.


After years of trial and error I eventually develpoed the skills.

Mind you I usually drove all the old motors to the s$$$$ yard or gave them to mates for banger racing when I'd finished with them.


Eventually got there and won an international concourse championship with the result of 3 years and over a 1,000 hours work to restore my Sunbeam Alpine.

I love going to car rallies and speaking to owners of everything from a Reily Elf to a 100 year old Roller. I don't care if there are signs of orange peel or not Just love being around the old cars and talking to the owners.

My only concern now a days is seeing filler on modern vehicles used to cover rust holes. Usually by the time the rust has shown it's ugly head the bodywork under the thick sound proof tar coating and plastic trim has fallen apart making them a death trap.


At least the old stuff had a bit of thick metal on the chassis. But without the head rests and inertia belts you probably finished up with a broken neck anyway

[surfenstein]

i take my hat off to the guy.it takes a lot of guts to cut a car up one wrong move and its just a pile of s$$$$ metal.yea ok so he could of bought a four door pick up but wheres the fun in that,thats what makes us insane people different to the rest of you.ive been planning my cut and shut job for a good few months now.but i just havnt had the time.but now im hoping that once the first cut is made that will be it and the projet should see me over the winter ready for next spring.so we should be encouraging people to be different and customise there own vehicles to their own tastes.and if we wanna cut our roofs off and make it a completly different vehicle then i say go for it.ive certainly never been one to have a standard vehicle.especially when your approaching roundabouts and the guy in the lane opposite is being bashed to death by his missus for looking at the truck and not looking where he is going. stein out.

[Woodzie]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh grinders

[surfenstein]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh coffee grinders

coffee dont agree with me.

[Woodzie]

coffee dont agree with me.

What about Meat Grinders

[tintin]

Finished with a chrome exhaust up the back pillar Tony.

I have been tinkering with the old plastic filler and pop rivets since I was 16yr old.

First bike was a Honda C90.

I progressed onto a Hillman at 17years then a Triumph Toledo filled the wings with pudding and mesh. Then painted it with a 4" brush and Dulux non drip gloss. Nice. !

I has a Chrysler Alpine, a coke bottle shaped Cortina GXL which had no petrol tank so used a 2 gallon can, one of those old 1930s jobs in the boot.

Then progressed from cutting bits of metal pop rivet gun and filler to welding and replacing and fabricating panels by hand. And even a course on carpet weaving to replace the black woollen carpets and then the resin pour on the veneer dash boards.


After years of trial and error I eventually develpoed the skills.

Mind you I usually drove all the old motors to the s$$$$ yard or gave them to mates for banger racing when I'd finished with them.


Eventually got there and won an international concourse championship with the result of 3 years and over a 1,000 hours work to restore my Sunbeam Alpine.

I love going to car rallies and speaking to owners of everything from a Reily Elf to a 100 year old Roller. I don't care if there are signs of orange peel or not Just love being around the old cars and talking to the owners.

My only concern now a days is seeing filler on modern vehicles used to cover rust holes. Usually by the time the rust has shown it's ugly head the bodywork under the thick sound proof tar coating and plastic trim has fallen apart making them a death trap.


At least the old stuff had a bit of thick metal on the chassis. But without the head rests and inertia belts you probably finished up with a broken neck anyway

Love your thinking mate!
Wish i had progressed from customising push bikes when i was a teenager!
Still, the good news is, I know a man wot can........................... .....
www.xjrestorations.co.uk
Hopefully next year he will be helping me to mak two custom bumpers (and teaching me to weld!)

Alan

[POPEYE]

Finished with a chrome exhaust up the back pillar Tony.

I have been tinkering with the old plastic filler and pop rivets since I was 16yr old.

First bike was a Honda C90.

I progressed onto a Hillman at 17years then a Triumph Toledo filled the wings with pudding and mesh. Then painted it with a 4" brush and Dulux non drip gloss. Nice. !

I has a Chrysler Alpine, a coke bottle shaped Cortina GXL which had no petrol tank so used a 2 gallon can, one of those old 1930s jobs in the boot.

Then progressed from cutting bits of metal pop rivet gun and filler to welding and replacing and fabricating panels by hand. And even a course on carpet weaving to replace the black woollen carpets and then the resin pour on the veneer dash boards.


After years of trial and error I eventually develpoed the skills.

Mind you I usually drove all the old motors to the s$$$$ yard or gave them to mates for banger racing when I'd finished with them.


Eventually got there and won an international concourse championship with the result of 3 years and over a 1,000 hours work to restore my Sunbeam Alpine.

I love going to car rallies and speaking to owners of everything from a Reily Elf to a 100 year old Roller. I don't care if there are signs of orange peel or not Just love being around the old cars and talking to the owners.

My only concern now a days is seeing filler on modern vehicles used to cover rust holes. Usually by the time the rust has shown it's ugly head the bodywork under the thick sound proof tar coating and plastic trim has fallen apart making them a death trap.


At least the old stuff had a bit of thick metal on the chassis. But without the head rests and inertia belts you probably finished up with a broken neck anyway

Sounds like were on the same page John, seem to have spent all my life and cash "doing up" one thing or another, after spending a fortune (for me) on the buick i swore i'd never do it again and here i am doing it again, aint stopped spending and working on the surf since i got it, thought you might be interested in the old pics, my old triumph T110, my triumph engine in me mates manx norton frame at brands, vauxhall velox, carlos fandango angle box, an old PC cresta i chopped the top of, (someone actually bought that off me before i finished it,) and the cash devouring buick, that f**ker blew up on me two weeks after i got it finished, ford granny, spent £1,400 on a respray on that dam thing,
There's been a few others as well but no pics survived of em,

[Highlander1]

Sounds like were on the same page John, seem to have spent all my life and cash "doing up" one thing or another, after spending a fortune (for me) on the buick i swore i'd never do it again and here i am doing it again, aint stopped spending and working on the surf since i got it, thought you might be interested in the old pics, my old triumph T110, my triumph engine in me mates manx norton frame at brands, vauxhall velox, carlos fandango angle box, an old PC cresta i chopped the top of, (someone actually bought that off me before i finished it,) and the cash devouring buick, that f**ker blew up on me two weeks after i got it finished, ford granny, spent £1,400 on a respray on that dam thing,
There's been a few others as well but no pics survived of em,

Brilliant I had to sell my Morris Oxford m6, Riley Kestral, a 4ltr RR vp and 2 minors all in various stages of repair when I moved back home.

I kept my 10wt van though.

Here's some pictures of my sunbeam. I didn't have digital camera then.

Cheers JB

[KERRSURF]

Carlos fandango! My brother Brian (Yoshie) used to have a Ford Anglia and I'm sure that old advert inspired him!

He sold it after welding it and fabricating panels for about a year.
It was primer grey when it left our garage never to be seen again.

[KERRSURF]

i'll need to hunt out pics of the MK 1 escort I restored for about 2 years, painted it Ford Corsair green and sold it when I needed money to get married.

I love messing about with older cars too, but timea nd money are my enemies.

Waiting for Yoshie to build his garage/workshop and see what project we fancy doing, it will certainly involve 33's and 4x4.