Ford FAT No.9 Restoration

[Phillip]

Sometimes, you feel like you are running around in circles and getting nowhere but then you stand back and you do see progress. Sometimes, when you take that step back you see that a milestone has been passed...

Burning the midnight oil this week has seen both C pillars and the nearside crew door completed. As with the B pillars the original C pillars were completely rusted out and had to be remade from scratch.

With the B pillars tacked into place and both crew doors hung, the C pillars are now tacked into place and the angle iron that forms the top of the window ledge also cut and tacked into place. Finding steel in imperial measurements has been challenging but I found a perfect match for the original angle iron in the form of the double bed out of my darling wife's 1967 Viscount Caravan!

With all pillars now in place and the crew doors hung and swinging, its on the the rear frame work which just requires a few replacement sections welding in before the whole body come off and gets sand blasted.

The quandary at the moment is does the spare wheel holder need shifting to accommodate the 1200 x20 MRF's?