Really reminds me of Dan Woods projects, great to see a thinking man's work... Very nice, keeps looking better and better as you go along... That will be a very fun car to drive...
C-cab build
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Thanks guys, as everyone knows it's encouraging to get positive feedback. To Ted Brown, I'm glad you can see the Dan Wood's influence, it was the restoration of his Ice Truck that inspired me to build my C-cab, I'm just blown away with the Ice Truck, Milk Truck, Pizza Wagon and the Roach Coach, to think they were in the early 70's just awesome. I have borrowed some design aspects but have tried to make it have it's own identity. It will be called, The Black Mariah, and have a look of a Police van, well that's the idea at the moment. Also thanks Ron for posting the pics. Fibreglassing soon wish me luck, regards Phantom
vaughans11
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Looks awesome!! Love the details. Keep rollin', and please keep the photos coming!!
Well as you can see most of the fiberglassing is done, took a couple of days, I put 5 layers of matting on, so it should be strong enough, I then ran the 6" sander over it all to knock off the high spots, then mixed up some body filler (bog) and covered it, I'm in the process now of blocking it back, taking off the main lot with vibrating sander and speed file. I did get some spray bog but I dont think I'll use it, I've got some hi-fill 2 pac primer which I think I'll spray over instead, as it seems to be coming up alright. I am leaving in the plywood buck in. Plan to take the body off the chassis next week so I can turn it over to finish glassing underneath the sill section. Fiberglass is a fantastic medium to work with, and yes the fumes are something, but the itching from the fibers is the real downer, I did receive advise on how to minamise that, but in the thrill of the moment forgot all about it. Well had better get back to it...regards Phantom
Ted Brown
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Back in the Day, when I was doing a ton of fiberglass work on Corvettes, the itch was stopped at night when I got home, my Wife would rinse me down in the shower with Milk, that would take away all the glass fibers and rinse them down the drain, then I took a regular shower after that... Sure helped me sleep at night...
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