doug fleet

its nice to see some progress since the last time I popped on here. keep it up.

Well, I am no specialist on bullet holes, but they kind of do resemble genuine bullet impact holes I have seen on buildings here in Poland. Still, could be a good talking point at shows!

 

trevor

the holes seem to be in different places not all in a line and theres no thread in them either so they just might be bullet holes

its looking smart , its a bost when you put things back on . iam still takeing bits off my matador .

as you can see , I got the cleaned up bits in primer today. so moved onto the next bit.took the 3 cages off . 2 look to be jerry can holders but the 3rd one is far to small for that so iam thinking its for a gallon of engine oil.on the good side the air bottle seems to be in good condition witch is a good thing. iam half way though cleaning this area up now .

What diameter are those bullet holes in the plating? Are they only on one side of the vehicle?

 

trevor

they are down one side . they bulge out on the inside and are about 6 to 8 mm . Its my son who thinks they are bullet holes . I am not so sure .

got the air pipes cleaned up around the gearbox top , bottom and inside of the chassie cleaned . front propshaft cleaned up and one end of the gearbox to transfer box propshaft. . I will spend another day cleaning and chuck some primer on sunday .

I keep looking in and you are chipping away . glad your making progress

got a week off work this week so got a day on the old girl. started to get the gearbox cleaned up and chassie rails around it . all the air compresser cooling fins were full with mud and grease that was rock hard. second photo is of all the ash ready to make a new cab out of.i have got to let it season for a while so will carry on with underneath.

this is looking very good , your making a real nice job of it .

picked up all the ash for the cab frame over the weekend 2inchs thick and about 15 inchs wide boards. that's another bit ticked off the list.

glad to see your chipping away at it and making progress. my matador restoration has slowed right down lately as I get the steam engine and the other matador ready for the rally season . but will be back on it soon.so its nice to see progress on on something I new of.

that rearly does look good . you are making a great job of it .

I have been trying to get as much done as I can before we start the rally season with the steam engine. but the odd hour here and there all helps push it along . should be getting the new ash for the cab frame soon but need to get all the riveting done first before I start fitting the cab again.

this is coming on well . one day I might be able to get one of these or an explorer.

only got 2 or 3 hours on it this weekend . cleaned up the rest of the frame behind the cab and primed. then spent the rest of the time scraping more mud and old grease from the chassie around the gearbox. hopefully I will get a bit more time next weekend.

iam glad its worked out for the better. its deffo the same Bedford as I found a photo of it just after the auction . I have to say I wish I got it out of him before it was sold . keep the photos coming as I wou;ld like to follow this blog .

hiya good to see you are making progress, am I right in saying the engine was ok in the end and didn't have a dropped valve as I was told.

had my 16 year old son spraying son bits for me today while I cleaned up some more of the framework behind the cab. I sprayed them bits in .one of the photos shows what I think are jerry can holders underneath the armour. 2 of the photos shows what possibly bullet holes in the side. there are 4 or 5 of them down one side in different places . they don't seem to have a thread in any of them. on 1 or 2 of them it has pushed the armour out a bit on the inside . does anyone know what they are or what they did . I would be great full for any imfo. thanks .

not doing long melford again . one of the organisers had a dig at me for turning the model steam wagon around , saying you can not move so stuff them we will go somewhere else.. I will get my wife to put one on with the matador .we are going to tinkers park with the foden wagon