HUP first drive
 

Who says it must be finished for a first drive. After six years I am now reenergized.

HUP
 

Go for it! It looks great!
Peter S.

Not fair.....
 

John you cannot get away with just "one" picture......

Give us some side views...... before and after.... what year??

Wait until Rob sees this..... that means he has another 3 years to go to catchup...hahaha

BooB

Re: Not fair.....
 

At the rate I am going, it will take another three years! Nice work. Glad to see another rare one moving. John, do you have a history in photos of the restoration?

Looking Good
 

This is first post restoration drive, but did you get to drive it before you started working on it? Had you driven a CMP before you started working on this one. The reason I ask is that I was lucky my first CMP a HUP was driveable, ran great had almost no brakes though, so I had some idea what I was getting into. So many of the people starting on CMPs now are starting with real non-runners.

Keep up the good work, get the nose on it and enjoy driving it on the road. HUPs are great fun because they are a reasonable sized and can carry 6 people. I agree with Bob more pictures.

Cheers

HUP cont.
 

It's a 1942. I took lots of pictures but they were to help me put it back together not to document the project.
I have a HUW from the Brian Wood collection that is a weekly driver. It has a nonoriginal GS style body but I have a seperate HUP body that could be fitted. I'll have to take some pictures of it since now that the HUP is mobile I'll likely sell the HUW.

Interesting...
 

John,

Could you photograph the tow hook set up? Some close ups would be appreciated.

tow hook
 

The tow hook would have been a field modification. I dont think HUPs were ever fitted with production hooks. The welding on the tow hook bracket is way too good to be from 1942.

Oh, excellent - so nice to see that, very inspiring - your six-years-on makes me feel better about my state of progress at 2.5.

I was lucky enough to start with a just-driveable vehicle, but I have a long way to go yet to have it rolling again.

Pretty sure HUPs were not normally set up for towing - I cut off a bodged-up towbar that was on mine - all I should have back there on the PERS-3 is the toolbox.