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12-10-14, 03:19
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I know I read years ago in Bart Vanderveen's work, and Bill Gregg's, that Australia had developed some indigenous CMP Body Patterns, but I had no idea of the actual scope of this work, until vehicles like yours and the amazing variations of BGC's from Australian and New Zealand started showing up on this forum. Brilliant!
David 
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18-03-15, 12:45
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Step ahead
This is the end result of a couple of months. We'll take a few steps back to see how this unfolded in the next few posts.
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18-03-15, 12:58
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It started about...
Just after the sides were done. What do the bows look like?
Do they come as individual bended tube or are they an assembly all joined together? After much wild goose chasing I realised the answer was much closer to home. Back out to the farm where the truck was originally from, to see if there was any remanants. Bingo! we found a bow! But was it original or not?
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18-03-15, 13:07
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Well..
Ok.... it certainly looked right and fitted in the holes of the sides OK.
But the conclusive evidence came when we noticed a bit of flaking rust on the top. Hang on! That aint flaking rust, thats a plate! A quick rush around the shed, find the wire brush, a quick hit and viola! TRUCK 3 TON GS D ^ D. I'll take it as conclusive evidence that this is the original thing.
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18-03-15, 13:12
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Cheating..
To the guys that like to do these things themselves... I freely admit I went to a steel fabricator to have these done.
Heavy wall pipe was used and a bit of research to show how the bend was done on the rearmost bow. The boys did a fabulous job 
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18-03-15, 17:17
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Excellent work Tony! Really nice to see the detail of the original bow. By the way, was there no interlinking between the different bows? or is there some kind of cable running through the loops on the inside of the bows?
I see you also have the hard to find bumper jewels on your truck.....great find!  Alex
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