doug fleet

Now theres a throught hahaha . you could sit next to me and do bits of the scammell

just a quick update , I haven't given up just out most weekends with the steam engines so things have slowed down . will be back on it as and when I can . thanks for looking. Doug

well well you told me that you had an explore , but I have never seen it . now I know who you are from your highwayman in the photo . I have seen the standard of restoration that you turn out so I will be keeping an eye on this . the photos of my armoured matador are in a blog on this site . Doug fleet

this looks to be in good nick , good luck on the restoration . if you go on facebook there is a group on there for landrovers with cummings engines you might find a flywheel on there . deffo wurth a look . sorry cant spell very well.

thank you ian 43 as theres not many about , theres not many photos of them . iam always happy to see photos of them inside or outside if anyone has photos of them please feel free to post on here

i will keep posting but they will slow down over the rally season . evern if I get the odd hour on it its a bit more done .

I strethened the front of the chassie where the bumper bolts on and put 3 10 thick strips of steel inside the bumper and welded them together to add some strength. the green matador weighs 7.1 tonne and the other one must be a bit more .

that's quiet powerfull model for the size of it . I wasn't to sure weather anyone was whatching this restoration . that makes 2 of you watching it . haha

we don't know why its putting the photos on twice so sorry about that. we had a change around in the shed today . had to put the matadors down the back end and steam engines at the front ready to do some maintenance on them for the show season . some one wanted to see the engines so put it one next to the lorry for size. I will be chipping away at it over the summer as and when I can thanks for looking .

Got the dash panels cleaned and primed up and loosely bolted back on. wheels and n/s front wing also refitted only to get it out the way . the matador will be going back down the other end of the shed in a week or so for the summer as I need to do some jobs on the steam engines for the rally season. I now have most of the inside of the cab refitted so the next big job is riverting the front back together. I was e mailed some photos of the inside of the Dorchester at duxford and its painted silver inside . mine seems to be painted white inside, the cab on mine was painted olive drab aswell as can be seen by the front of the dash bored panel.

hiya , i keep poping in to see how your getting on , your making good progress and its looking very good keep up the good work .

had a good day today got the engine covers primed and top coated on the side nearest the engine .got a few of them refitted back on the lorry. . hopping to get some more back on tomorrow all being well . its starting to look a bit like a matador again . iam pleased with todays progress.

hiya John thanks very much I keep chipping away at it , I have come a long way but there is still a long way to go .Iam trying to get all the engine covers cleaned up and primed as they are easier to fit with out the front wings on . Front wings are ready to rivet up then fit .

got the rest of the engine covers cleaned up ready for priming next weekend . it was to windy to do it today . so got a lot cleaned up and happy with todays progress. it must of been dark in the cab as it was olive drab inside the cab .

does anyone know wheather they still have the armoured matador on display. I would rearly like to have a closer look amd take some photos of the inside

i time and its good to see your making progress. its coming on well . keep up the good work

spent sometime today chucking paint about. just painted the bits on the front before the wings go back on