I’ve still been working on the truck, just haven’t updated the site in a long time. I finally got the drivers side rear cab corner in decent enough shape to skim with filler. I also made a start on trying to sort the door out. It was a completely different shape to the frame at the back, and I decided to hacksaw through in a few places and bend it back. With a few tack welds in place it looked a lot better than before. The front edge of the door frame was also a different shape to the screen frame. After a lot of thinking, I decided to slice it off and make a new one from sheet metal.

It took a lot of measuring and messing about to get it close but it should be a lot better once the door is re-hung. While I was at it I filled the mirror slot in the door. I’m getting a lot happier about the way it looks now, but I’ve got an awful lot of work still to do. I found a hood in the UK that had been replaced for a better one. I emailed the owner, and sent him a pic of mine and asked if it was in better shape than mine, which he reckoned it was!. I got it collected, and with a bit of help from Tommy got it balanced on the body for a pic. It’s a million times better than what I had, so that’s made a major amount of work into a much smaller job.