Another C60L Restoration

[Tony Mathers]

oh BTW - Thanks Keith for the DMV... :P


Mike: My Tray came from Bill's and the chassis from Ryan....

The tray however has the ladder attachment bolt holes on the left hand side above the rear wheel, instead of at the rear, like the machinery/workshop trucks.

[Tony Mathers]

Over the last couple of days I had been cleaning up some of the chassis pieces that needed to be reattached. After grinding off the shattered pieces around them, I was able to de-rust them a little:
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and put on my first bit of paint....
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I have also been working on a portable gantry.
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[Tony Mathers]

I have been doing lots of little stuff recently and seem to be finding it difficult to really focus on some of the bigger jobs that need to be done to get this restoration happening.

I had the head rebuilt which was a little inspiring.
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But I got a bit distracted by buying another blitz... But that is a different story..

Anyway I went to Corowa and that helped focus the brain a little. Lots of people commented about this thread and I saw hundreds of finished restorations (or nearly finished) which got me very envious.. So now I need to get my own truck (trucks) going!

[Tony Mathers]

Here is one of those big jobs I had been avoiding.
Farmer modifications
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Removed
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Started sanding back the chassis... (My small sandblaster needs a bigger compressor, so its mainly with a wire brush in a angle grinder)
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The rear end nearly ready for re-attachment.
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other bits of the rear end that have been sanded and awaiting undercoat.
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Hoping to have all this undercoated at least, by the end of tomorrow,

[Matt Austin]

Tony, thanks for linking to this thread, to point out the body type in answer to my query. I thought I'd read this thread before, and indeed note that I had pointed out that I have one of the GMH Special Body Division plates, that you'll need.

I've taken it to friend who is having various aircraft placards and plates replicated. It looks fairly easy to replicate, so I'll make sure that I run a number of them off and you get one.

I'm following your resto with great interest.

Cheers,
Matt

[Tony Mathers]

I think you could sell more than a few....

and yes I will need one too..

[Tony Mathers]

I got pretty tired of of sanding back an area, and having it start rusting before I had done enough to justify getting out the spray gun, so today I got in a professional.
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I was then able to get out the spray gun and get it primed.
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Unfortunately it showed some more things that need replacing.... drats
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