1947 ford ranger...

Yeah part of me says it would look better but part of me says it's gonna screw with peoples heads on a modern plate........ I'd be torn on if I should or shouldn't!!!!

I to enjoy metalwork....I can look at others doing it for hours!

Was it that one with the rusty paint?

Much interest and respect for this build.
There is streetfighter over on rods n sods that has done a '48 chevy on a mazda chassis and a f100 on a range rover chassis. Are those the builds you're looking for/refering to? Just read it's a '40 ford. I'm of no help what so ever....

I got the bits painted gloss black, and did get them fitted back up too with the rad and fan and intercooler too, but didn’t take any pics of that. Here they are now they’re black though.









I’ve also had another batch of stuff blasted and painted since that which included more of the engine brackets and the front brake callipers, so there’s hardly anything left to paint running gear wise now.

One (well two) big thing that was holding me up was painting the underside of the cab and bed before refitting. The logistics of getting it down the sandblaster for the underside of the cab, and cab floor and the entire bed to be blasted was proving difficult, and tbh I was putting odfnbeicase it was doing my head in. Only the fact the cab was massively in the way and I kept having to move it to use other equipment spurred me on to do it. Eventually I managed to rope another guy from up the yard into doing it for a small fee, as he was the only one with a vehicle big enough to fit the bed and cab on together.

So with some heavy lifting and much strapping we’re loaded up-


Then it all goes on a little 24hr holiday to the sandblasters yard.


Then this afternoon with some further logistics that were very tightly timed with the chance of going to cock at any minute, the sandblaster finishes the job exactly as we turn up to collect, and it comes back the other way.
This was my view for the journey.


Literally the second it hits the floor in the yard it starts to rain, so it was sheeted over for an hour whilst George finished polishing a car, and now it’s in the booth.

The underside of the cab and bed, the interior cab floor and firewall will be epoxyed then sprayed in a tintable bedliner. The rest of the bed with be fauxtina’d to match the cab. I’m letting George do this in exchange for me sorting various things out on his new daily for him, which sounds like a good swap to me.

I don’t tend to do threads on customers cars, but as he’s on here maybe hawk can be persuaded to do one?

It’s basically a scary amount of rust hiding under a scary amount of filler, tar, underseal, sealant, ally sheet and pop rivets, etc. All the usual ‘older restoration’ stuff.

So with it back from the blasters, it went next door into George’s paint booth.

Some things were ordered, and he’s been huffing them on today, after I finished up a few little bits of metalwork and some seam sealer was added.

First it was coated in white epoxy.


Then a custom mix of tinted raptor style bedliner stuff, as underbody protection.
It’s very very dark green, like the original colour. Can’t remember if it was actually raptor, but it’s a comparable product that can be tinted with 2k. All the bits that are hidden underneath will be done in this, on the bed and cab, as well as the inside of the cab floor and firewall.












Will get flipped over tomorrow and the cab floor done inside.

Yeah that was part of the thinking behind it. As the soft furnishings consist solely of the seat base and the seat back, anything that can be done to reduce drumming is useful. I’ll be able to stick some dynamat type product on the cab back as it’ll be hidden behind the seaT, but I’m limited as to what else I can do without it being on show.

I think after raptoring the floor and dynamatting the cab back the next areas of concern will be the bare metal roof skin and doors, rather than putting more on the floors. I can probably get some sound deadening inside the doors, it’s accessible but awkward. but won’t be able to do the roof skin unless I devise some sort of headlining.