Thread: New Toy - 1957 107" ute

surely theyd have some photos locally in a historical society or library?

nice to do it up as council truck? Id assume it would be fairly normal/standard except for sign writing and maybe a tool rack or similar on rear...definately worth a look... and is it No.8 or telephone no.8 ?

just wondering==

good job!

Finally got some more time to spend on the old girl today. Some more unholdening work on the front crossmember.

New top half of the crank hole fabricated.


And welded into place.


New front top half of the crossmember fabricated and half welded, not particularly happy with the bending job I did but I think it will come up OK after some panel beating. No one open that could bend 2mm sheet on a Sunday.


From the back



Welding finished, I'll tidy it up with the grinder once the extra crossmember is gone.


From the back. I'll get the second half professionally folded and then weld it in.






Good to have some more progress.

Regards,
Tote

Front crossmember finished and given a squirt of red oxide. Prior to putting the back piece on I gave the inside a good coat of cold gal. Obviously it will have burned off where i have been welding but something in there is better than rust,

From the front, the extra crossmember has been removed



From the back, I dont know what that braced bolt hole below the steering relay is for but it was a bugger to reconstruct, they had gas axed half of it away.



Battery box is next, got a new surround and aircleaner mount from Tony S so I've just got to fix the base.



Regards,
Tote

Well I set up the Smurf inspired spray booth today and squirted a bit of paint around. Unfortunately I ran out of paint due to a small miscalculation (ie having no idea how much I'd need) But it all seemed to go well. I'm using 3M matt black from Supercheap as the base but I think I'll probably put a gloss black over the top as the final coat.

Geraldine in the "spray booth"




The outside of the booth and the inside of the garage. The other cars were moved prior to any painting but it seemed to work pretty well at containing any overspray and there was no wind in the shed.



The end result of a litre of Supercheap's finest......



More paint tomorrow, I'm reasonably happy with the progress so far.

Regards,
Tote

It is amazing what a little paint can do to improve the looks of things.

Garry

The end result after spraying with 3M Subframe Black from Supercheap. I decided the matt black was too dull.....
Still have to spray the underside of the rear and inside the back crossmember. I'll do that after pulling the rear axle assy, which comes after rebuilding the front springs and fitting new bushes.




Regards,
Tote

hey i ended up using about 2-3L on mine i like the spray booth its simple and works well.

I used just under 2 litres on the gloss coat, probably another 2-300ml to go when I get the springs off the back.

Regards,
Tote