{"id":43,"date":"2007-03-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T15:14:40","slug":"f100bodymaking-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Making a Start"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last of the panels for the truck were on the drive when I got home the other day, so I had everything but the hood shoved in the garage (that had to go in the shed for now). After discovering the gearbox was dead on the ’55 on Saturday I decided to do some work on the truck instead on sunday. I hung the front wings and the majority of the front loosely so that I can still push it in and out and it’s out of the way as the roof is now well and truly full of truck panels. I had two front valance panels, one was full of holes and the other was bent like a banana. I got the worst of the dents out so I could use it for now and bolted it up.<\/p>\n

\"Front<\/p>\n

I decided to make a start on some of the bodywork, and the doors had been bugging me. They were a completely different shape to the openings at the back, and I wanted to work out if I could fix it in the door or if I’d have to re-do the chop. After making a few slices with a hacksaw I had enough movement to pull it in so I’ll weld that up when I can get the ’55 out of the way. With that done I felt like doing some more hammering, so made a start on the roof. It was really badly warped where it had been chopped, and had about an inch of filler in it when I fist got the truck. I spent a few hours with the hammer and dollies and got it loads better. It needs a few days work or so I reckon to get it good enough, so that’s something to look forward to.<\/p>\n

\"Roof<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last of the panels for the truck were on the drive when I got home the other day, so I had everything but the hood shoved in the garage (that had to go in the shed for now). After discovering the gearbox was dead on the ’55 on Saturday I decided to do some work on the truck instead on sunday. I hung the front wings and the majority of the front loosely so that I can still push it in and out and it’s out of the way as the roof is now well and truly full of truck panels. I had two front valance panels, one was full of holes and the other was bent like a banana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-f-100","category-f-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}