1954 Ford C-600 COE truck & a 1951 F1 Pickup

Big grin.

Simple.

Weirdly, gussetted items are prettier, but I prefer the braced ones.


LOOOOOVE The table.

Today was a good day , down the workshop by 7am to crack on with the truck ,







Got both sides on and the bag mounts to ,they will be fully welded when I know it all works and the final height it set, then I stuck the front wings and front rad panel back on to test it all out ,


Well it kin low I couldn't get the jack out





Got the jack out but it sits a bit loop sided coz I have a 225/75-16 on on side an a 195-16 on the other rim , but I have now ordered another 225 before I make some adjustments,











Its a bit lower than I planned but nothing a spacer between the back and bracket wont sort out hopefully, or even a bigger offset on the bag bracket its self , will have to wait till i get the new tyre on though to get it all set right ,

Pretty DAM happy with how it looks though !!

this week i made a quick puller for the steering wheel as my mate painted the new one up for me , the OG wheel did not move when i tried to shift it before but left the puller on for an hour and with a couple of taps it finally came off.




Got some more 8mm nylon tube and got the back suspension plumbed in for now so i can get the back up and down to to workout where to mount the rear wings and got another 225/65-16 tyre mounted on the other front rim now and made a couple of spacers to try on the front this weekend ,




I ordered up a few length's of 40mm box, tube and angle to make a start on the bed to, I have some spare sheet steel so may just make a pick up bed with this for now so the chassis is covered with something to test it all out, As always ideas change and I still want to do the ally airstream camper pod but have been playing aourd and drawing up some other ideas to......

There are a few ideas.

I seem to think one of the importing guys on FB possibly ViscountVince may have brought in a trailer before.

Something like this.



Ending up like this……..



Sorry, I had a picture of the rear end of one as well.

Took a while to update atomman



But you will get the idea if you ask Google Images for “Small American Livestock trailer”


PS: Obviously you only have a short-ish space to work with, and a set width, but I hope you find something mind blowing.

I have always wanted an airstream on the back of a COE since I saw one as a kid , unfortunately over here they are big bucks, but I could make one . I worked out i would need around £750 odd for the ally sheets to start , I have looked at a lot of 50's British caravans and stuff but they all seem to small and not curvy enough if you know what i mean,

I have the Dodge RV for now to go away in so a bed on the COE will be the first step and the capacity to carry me 240z, when its all going and shaken down I will prob sell the Dodge and that will give me the cash to build the airstream,

if your on insta have a look @thedinnerliner cool UK COE with a RaD build on the back

Mainly coming up with a plan for the bed today , used a string line to get the back arch in the right place and tacked it there with some bits of box , so I could fill the gap ,









started with some 2" box for the cross sections and some OSB i had lying round to make the bed for now, want to use some old railway sleepers cut down into planks for the real bed , got more metal arriving tomorrow , need to find some latches for the locker boxes on the side to if anyone know where to find them or what they are called ?

also this turned up ,




Which means remote control Up's 'N' Downs

Have a look at Penn Elcom www.penn-elcom.com/default.asp?MC=01020101&LG=EN and see if there is anything there that works.
I have an account with them if you need anything.

that's exactly what i needed thanks

That's absolutely brilliant! Be awesome if you can pull that off.