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For guys from the UK who may read on here, thought I would copy and paste. I was given two of these, taken out of a Peugeot 807 people carrier. Kept one, offered one to mate Martin as he wanted to convert his C10 truck to bucket seats with a folder in the centre. Free to collector, Rochester, Kent. It is 18 inches wide. Fold down the back and you have a table with cup holders.   Please PM if you want it. First PM gets it. No messers please. Mrs Boss wants it out the house, or else it's pavement time. ALSO........ Free to collector. |
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May 10, 2015 16:17:29 GMT
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In this day and age religion is often frowned upon, but I have met some of the most amazing people from various religions over time. From Buddhists to Sikhs, through Muslims and Christians and everything inbetween, there are many good people out there and if you do not allow yourself to be swayed by petulant religious opinion, the world is an awesome place with the odd idiot inbetween trying to make it rubbish for others. I have had these crucifixes running around in my head for a long time. Today at the one bootfair, I bought a handful of carpenters nails for 50p though the seller had agreed to 20p, I did not have the heart to take the change. Came home and welded these up for my friend Ta2Don in Arkansas to stick in his Tattoo shop.  A little bit of prep, some quick mig welding and we have three crosses.  Followed by some finishing off on the linisher in the woodwork shed, mounted on a bit of old fence post I still have not figured out what to do with....... For those of the Christian faith, the story should be fairly apparent. Job done.  Will get these to Don when we go over on this Road trip in October 67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=653025Definitely looking forward to it. |
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recarouk
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May 10, 2015 17:11:11 GMT
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I'm not really a religious guy to be honest, but seeing this made me instantly think of my dearly departed Grandad, lost him when i was only 13 and even though its now 20 years later i miss him so much, i wish he could have shared the things ive been through and he always kept me levelled as a kid. Anyway, his ashes were buried at a place called Walsingham and he too is next to the three crucifixes  sorry for filling up your thread with Drivel but it really pulled on my heart strings seeing that and felt like i wanted to share, hope you don't mind buddy. cheers |
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May 12, 2015 18:35:12 GMT
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I'm not really a religious guy to be honest, but seeing this made me instantly think of my dearly departed Grandad, lost him when i was only 13 and even though its now 20 years later i miss him so much, i wish he could have shared the things ive been through and he always kept me levelled as a kid. Anyway, his ashes were buried at a place called Walsingham and he too is next to the three crucifixes sorry for filling up your thread with Drivel but it really pulled on my heart strings seeing that and felt like i wanted to share, hope you don't mind buddy. cheers Thank you for the reply mate. Glad I could make a difference, memories are awesome and I still share stuff with my long departed parents in their absence. Parents and grand parents are usually great guides for our later lives. |
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May 12, 2015 20:26:55 GMT
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Rian you bring so much to this forum, just fascinating, hope alls well in your lovely part of the world, nice weather down there now can't wait to get back down Friday eve
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This reminds me of the crosses made from nails from the bombed Coventry Cathedral  |
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recarouk
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May 13, 2015 19:10:07 GMT
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I'm not really a religious guy to be honest, but seeing this made me instantly think of my dearly departed Grandad, lost him when i was only 13 and even though its now 20 years later i miss him so much, i wish he could have shared the things ive been through and he always kept me levelled as a kid. Anyway, his ashes were buried at a place called Walsingham and he too is next to the three crucifixes sorry for filling up your thread with Drivel but it really pulled on my heart strings seeing that and felt like i wanted to share, hope you don't mind buddy. cheers Thank you for the reply mate. Glad I could make a difference, memories are awesome and I still share stuff with my long departed parents in their absence. Parents and grand parents are usually great guides for our later lives. So very very true, and something i'd not really thought about much until i read that, i guess that way they never really are gone, always with you in some way shape or form. thanks for sharing your stuff, i do really enjoy your updates  |
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Please PM if you want it. First PM gets it. No messers please. Mrs Boss wants it out the house, or else it's pavement time. ALSO........ Free to collector. Sorry but i don't want the seat even if its free ! J/K |
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May 19, 2015 15:06:25 GMT
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Been a bit busy getting ready for my job change the last few weeks, finish the current job on Friday, new job Tuesday. In the industry I am in, it is very academically driven, and all new knowledge needs to be learned and tests/exams have a non negotiable 85% pass rate. So just when I thought I would spend some time on the truck while on holiday before leaving my current job, the training files etc got here........ Need I say more? Anyway, those that know the truck will recall that I need to replace my door check straps as the passenger door is very knackered after at least two previous contacts with the front fender edge. I already had the repair panels for the speaker holes in both doors, and the bad crease on the outside of the PS door but still needed to buy some Jeep Cherokee door check straps. In stepped a hero from South Carolina and offered me his spare set, including the rubber grommets already prepped and ready to fit, along with some door pins as well. Nicola and I went away for 5 days to the UK's Jurassic Coast to search for fossils and just spend some time together as the rest of this year will be rough from a job point of view, and of course I am off to the USA in October on a road trip with mate Martin.  Many roads signed like this, no mobile or internet, no Starbucks or McDonalds. Refreshing.  Our fossil finds. 170million years old.  So today I went to the Post Office to collect a parcel........ Came home, opened it and found these in it.  Thank you very much friend, these will be saving me a lot of pain in future. On Saturday I am off to go look at a passenger door off a '64 as well, which has no speaker hole, and seems to be crease free, though not perfect with a bit of ruse, and dents on the bottom edge, at £200.00, the price the seller is asking is more than I would like to pay, but if you do the maths and include all the welding and potential warping on my door, it kind of makes sense to buy this door. |
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May 19, 2015 16:45:34 GMT
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I presume from the roadsign you were going to or from axminster power tools for a manly shopping experience. Seeing the fossils takes me back, I grew up in ilminster ( few miles from signpost ) almost anywhere you dug, ammonites would be found ( the snail like ones )
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May 19, 2015 16:49:42 GMT
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Since you like a bit of history, the SCC on top of the post is Somerset County Council
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took my old landy to bridport once! a weird pilgrimage to its first registered keeper in early 80s (highlands end holiday park)
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May 20, 2015 20:34:37 GMT
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Live nearby , seen that road sign many a time , tis a great place to live
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Beautiful part of the country. Old Skool people, technology, and great roads. Amazingly, it is 25 months since I came back from this awesome road trip with my brother www.wilddog.za.net/forum/index.php?topic=106063.0Today also marks the last day with the company I have worked successfully for, for the last 25 months. Headed into a much more intense, focussed market from Tuesday. Absolutely pooping myself, but like before, these new roads, challenges will be mastered and make my life better. Just hope the new job allows me time for myself and my family. |
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May 22, 2015 13:23:36 GMT
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Best of luck with the new Job Rian! Also excellent score with the door retainers! Some great people out in the truck world, and just the world in general |
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May 24, 2015 18:34:10 GMT
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Best of luck with the new Job Rian! Also excellent score with the door retainers! Some great people out in the truck world, and just the world in general Hi Mat, Absolutely. It all goes around if you let it. Below some copy and paste as I am having problems with photos from my emails. My iPad has been returned to my old job so I asked Martin to copy this from his thread. Well what can I say , that was one busy day . It started with meeting Rian at the local services at 9.00am . Then off to Essex to meet up with a guy called Dell. A few weeks ago I went to his place after work one evening, to collect a big back window cab section unfortunately it was too rusty to use. But after chatting to him for a while he told me he was possibly going to break one of his trucks. Having three of them a long bed stepper which is his own daily driver on full air ride and a second truck that is up for sale. So after making him an offer for his cab and a drivers door, as well as bending Rian's ear about having the passenger door (With some help from Don in Arkansas). A deal was done . On arriving at 10.00am as arranged, we found Dell had already stripped some of the outer front panels off, bonnet, fenders. This is as it was as we pulled up  The blue truck is his daily driver  This is the one he has for sale  Dell and his son Sam I think his son found the V8 running a bit loud.  Once again our cab lifter came in handy. In fact just to show how easy it is we got Catherine to operate it while holding the baby in her other arm. VIDEO CLIP BELOW. Not much left of the truck by 3.30pm  Here's a sight you don't see to often a Ford towing a Chevy home  Once home Rian helped me unload it into my carport.  Just a little update. I forgot to mention Rian's parts. After meeting up with Rian, as he always offers to help, went over to Essex with him following in his car, not knowing where we were headed. This time there was a good reason to come with me . I had convinced him that getting a replacement door was the right way to go . He also said he was interested in the inner fenders after I told him they were in mint condition . He wasn't disappointed While we were stripping the cab of all its internal parts he decided he would also have the custom heater box, which though untested, could be a neat addition to his truck. Dell also let him have the cab mount rubbers. The heater may need full restoring, but we already know from mine that a Mazda MX5 blower fits in with a bit of fettling and then has three speeds.  The inner fenders are close to immaculate.  The cab mounts rubbers are very good for 50 years.  New door has a very small amount of rust on the bottom corner and no speaker hole cut in.  Looking at my old door, it is good, but not good enough.  Then there was the seat he said he would be interested in swapping his factory bench seat for. But it would be a question of him running it past (Mrs Boss)    [/QUOTE] BACK TO RIAN'S REPORTING Today's Bootfair bounty. All items except the side cutters at £1.00 were 50p Router bits from a joinery shop. Screwdrivers and side cutter from a local college. Old Phillips and flat screwdriver, pin hammer from a deceased estate.  Small Mini Models for Ta2Don's House of Clutter So a long day, I got home at 19.00 and crashed out by 22.00 so that I would be ready for bootfair in the morning. |
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recarouk
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May 24, 2015 19:49:56 GMT
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that bench looks amazingly comfortable, did you do a deal on that? |
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May 25, 2015 10:45:27 GMT
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that bench looks amazingly comfortable, did you do a deal on that? No deal done. I like it a lot but Nicola rightly mentioned originality on that score. So for now its a no. Found this little fridge magnet in Del's truck while stripping it for Martin yesterday. Quite liked it. Would guess its a few years old.  |
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May 26, 2015 17:24:23 GMT
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When last did you see one of these water transfer stickers?  Found someone on R&S selling these today, and thought why not.....? As most of my trucking family are concentrated in Arkansas, it only seemed the right thing to do, but the AK one. Looking forward to getting that on my quarter vent window after the resto.  The little things that make me smile. |
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May 27, 2015 21:28:49 GMT
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Well, passed two of the tests so far. Today while studying I heard a rather loud "THUMP" so when went to look it was a parcel from friend Steve in Arkansas. Cool plates for my collection.  |
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