M37 Restoration (53-41242)

[David Dunlop]

Nice progress, Wayne!

David

[Rob Crombie]

Looks great Wayne. The truck has sure come a long way since you first picked it up.

[Wayne Hingley]

Thanks David and Rob. I have almost all of the remaining components in a "ready to bolt on" state, so hopefully I can maintain a decent pace of work with the reassembly.

I need to attach the bumperettes and brackets for the tail lights, convoy light and trailer plug so that I can properly fit the rear wiring harness. That's my next step.

[Wayne Hingley]

The dance floor is in place. This is one of those situations where I bought all new Phillips-head fine thread fasteners (hard to find item) for the entire cargo box, and I can’t remember where I put them. Hopefully they are in the same secret place as the access plate for the fuel tank sender. I guess I’ll need to do some cleanup and sorting through all the parts to get things in order.

[Mike Cecil]

Looking very, very good, Wayne.

You won't want to take that outside the workshop during winter (Edit: substitute Spring-Summer-Fall - see 148 below) in case you get a speck of mud on it, it looks soooo nice!!

Best regards to you and the family

Mike

[rob love]

In Western Canada (BC is the exception) , you get mud in the spring, summer and fall. In the winter (at least around here) there is no mud in the winter.

[Mike Cecil]

I should have remembered it gets all frozen north of here.

It was a in reference to my visit to Wayne's last year, while on the way to Edmonton, in May or June (so not winter). When I left the main highway, my car was red. When I returned to the highway a few hours later, it was two-tone: upper red, but from the windows down ... grey/brown mud!!

Still, well worth the deviation to catch up with Wayne and family. Just a pity I didn't get to Shilo as planned.

Mike