1971 Jersey Pickup Restoration

[ptitterington]

Things are moving on quite quickly now. Shell has been painted but will post some proper pics once connected to chassis and rolled out into the sunshine! (Quote Rich)
The textured finish you can see on the inner wings is the Shalts & the stone chip.

[ptitterington]

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[davidmiles]

great progress, remind me not to park my finished pickup next to your finished pickup. Could be demoralising for one of us, and not the one from the channel islands either.

[Fingolfin]

Oh, David, your pickup will look glorious! I think the two pickups ought to be parked together...that much Moggie Awesomeness in one spot might cause the second coming of Alec Issigonis.

[davidmiles]

lol, excellent Fin

[ptitterington]

A few more pictures.
The left hand side was again a mass of filler and bodges so awaiting some repair panels from Fairmile Restorations.

[chrisryder]

in the nicest possible way... what's happened to the paint in some corners of the engine bay? looks like it's reacted with something...

kudos on all the progress though, looks like it'll be finished soon!

[taupe]

Chris

That will be seam sealer!

The panels were originally sealed along those joints with a bitumen type sealant brushed on and then painted over.

[rich-legg]

Yep it's Shalts seam sealer, its a rubber type of sealer which is heavier duty than standard stuff. Its not as pretty, but as this is going to be Peters daily driver is has to hard wearing.

How's it going Taupe, when you getting back on the traveler?

Rich

[taupe]

I dunno yet Rich - just doing bits and pieces at the moment..... but I bet My Trav is finished before yours

Have you still got it??

Taupe

[ptitterington]

Yes, I asked for hard wearing over prettyness. The pickup will mainly live outside and be my day to day car. Could have purchased a Nissan or mitsubishi pickup like all the plumbers over here, but I recon this one will outlast them!

[RobMoore]

Nice progress, I am curious as to what you did to the handbrake leaver to get it looking so nice though.

[ptitterington]

I thought he may have had it powder coated but it looks like paint and is hanging up to dry.

[ptitterington]

Here are some more pictures. No glory ones of a shiny painted body, just hard graft sorting out rotten panels.
I can now see why It would have been good to find another new old stock side as the original was really bad.
















Had big problem with photobucket so many pictures in limbo!

[ptitterington]

A bit more progress, Engine has been started. Few more bits to be painted now.
Hopefully all finished in July.












Wheels looking fantastic!

[ptitterington]

Just a few more bits need painting, door and cab back. Its frustrating that even though new front wings were purchased, a fair bit of work was required to dents and things to bring them up to standard. Still well done Rich!

[ptitterington]

Rich recons the pickup will be ready within 1 month and as I am making my workshop into a 2 bedroom house I have had to downsize a bit and am making a pickup garage and workshop.(On an extremely small budget using all the leftovers from jobs) Max size allowed 20sqm internally without planning or building by-law permission!



Fitting in in-between jobs so slow progress. So far 16 hrs work for 2 men.
Got lucky on local for sale site £150 pair of Aluminium doors and window only 1 year old taken from new house being altered.

Oh and a picture of my puppy

[davidmiles]

Is he grumpy or does he always play it cool ?

[ptitterington]

He sleeps a lot and the rest of the time is completely mad!

Garage has moved on a little.

[ptitterington]

Well a little progress with garage dodging showers and waiting on steel fixers on main contract.

Glued shuttering ply with polyurethane glue to stiffen so thought a lick of paint would help.


Oh and Tub coming along should get some more pics soon.