FAT Fast brothers Prairie Command restoration

[derk derin]

Rob & Tony,
Way to go! Nice to see another project in the shop.You had better hurry,spring is almost here and it's back to the golf course.I keep missing your calls.Gun show here in West st. Paul on March 27th,opens at 10:00am.Come in early and I'll buy you breakfast!Good luck with the project.
Regards,Derk.

[Walde Libera]

Rob

I have a Mar.08/44 build CGT

I still have the rusty remnants of the rear doors; they are very similar to your 3/4 length double wall style, door skin folds and spot welds. The only difference is on mine is I have an additional storage shelf at the very bottom. Hinges are the shorter version and bolted to the outside of the body.

Seems the Cab 13 FAT rear bodies were made in at least 2 versions. Good luck on your project, have references from my project, happy to help!


Walde

[Keith Webb]

Interesting to see how they differ from the doors on the locally produced FATs in Australia. The crew doors were narrow and made from cut down front doors. The rear door on the No8 FAT was wider than the crew doors but still made from a front door. You can see the neat weld lines on the inside, which has the standard inner skin pattern.
The No9 FAT had the same crew doors as the No8 but two rear doors instead of one, which were new fabrications not using the front doors, and were held in place by a sliding bolt.
It bemuses me that both manufacturers made the same bodies with detail differences given the relatively small numbers produced, when a large production body like the 2A used on 15CWT CMPs here was only made by Holden.
The No6 Bofors tractor had crew doors about the same size as the others but these were made from scratch with a raised cross pattern on the inner skin. These bodies were only made by Holden.

[Rob Fast]

See hinge pics. Smaller hinge 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch with 3 mounting slotted bolts. Larger hinge 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch with 2 mounting slotted bolts.

[Rob Fast]

Road trip. Remains of HUP body and floor/front doors/nose/pintal...all 3 back doors were there...also a 15cwt box with wheel wells cut out, but hthe tail gate is there. Why do I bring this stuff home??? I put on 400 kms!! The last pic is our FAT coming along nicely, just doing brake work and then we will be piecing it back together. Cheers Rob

[Bob Carriere]

..... 'cause it there........

I have often ask myself the same question.....

..........................it was good enough for Sir Hillary !!!!

Good finds...... keep us posted, with photos, of the Gun tractor progress.

Bob

[Rob Fast]

We may have jumped the gun on sandblasting the FAT back body, but we are hoping to have all the reconstruction of the back of end of body done this winter. Snow is on the way and I wanted it cleaned up while we can. My dog Winston is now 10 years, on a pain killer and an anti imflamatory every other day... Cheers Rob