1985 Honda Acty Show Truck

The brown and orange stripes on the canopy is a future plan - maybe for next year - along the bottom edge on each side - the same height of where the original ifor williams sticker was, I hadn't thought of an acty logo within the stripe - it might make it look more oem with that added, thanks.

Much better done that way round, lines up nicely with the door line. How about brown top orange bottom, with an orange line on the door too? mabie too much?

Give me a shout when you are ready to do the stripes. I definitely already have the orange in stock.

Another 6 hour truck shift put in last night, after a full day at work and Ethan’s bed time routine. Got to bed by 2am by the time I’d tidied up the house after me!

I wasn’t happy with how I’d fitted the canopy as the box section was sitting at an angle due to fitting it to the canopy first instead of the drop sides first.

Also I wasn’t happy with the paint finish.

So I unbolted canopy, took it off again, sanded back the box sections, vinyl wrapped them in black, fitted them to the drop sides, then bolted the canopy in place on top of the box sections.

All nice and sturdy and straight now.

Next up I added a couple of eyelets to the bed to help secure stuff. I’ll be buying some more and I have a bungee rope net somewhere to dig out.

Next job was fitting end caps into the box section.

Followed by fitting domed Honda badges to cover holes that were in the canopy when I bought it but were too far over for me to utilise - I should have bought a bigger badge though as you can still see corrosion around edge of the hole! (Or sanding back the corrosion I guess)

Last job was to secure the window with mastic tape, need to clean off a bit of residue that was a bit further than the edge of the frame rubber in the corners.

And to finish off just before tidying up I packed my bag of car washing stuff ready for the show on Saturday and put my jump pack and jet wash batteries on charge.

Photos ...

I’ve worked out how to order the printed magazine version of the custom car (Japan) magazine with my Acty in.

A few on Instagram expressed interest - if five people or more are interested I can order five copies at a cost of £12 each including me shipping them out to you in U.K. once they arrive. I’m not making any money off this, I already have my own copy so only really worth doing if enough of you want a copy, my Acty is only two pages but rest of magazine is cool any way.

You could each order your own directly from Japan but that would work out at £22 per issue.

Sadly it’s not the issue that came with the stickers.

Let me know if you want a copy.

Cheers
Phil

Stunning, absolutely stunning!

Thanks both

Cheers

Cheers

I know just about every page in the magazines has something I'd love. One of the things I'm most interested in is a front end that you can fit to the modern kei trucks that look identical to the original 60s kei trucks so you can have modern reliability but classic looks. I'm really tempted to get one as a daily.

edited to add the details...

www.garage-ill.co.jp/jetgogo/

Buy a truck like this...



Add the basic face kit and it looks like this...



I'm also hoping that you can buy just the smooth bumper on it's own as it's more of a slimline profile like my original acty one compared to the rascal bumper I've had fitted.