Hi Terry
Yes, the old soup can has gone and I now have the proper rubber cover - access to the oil filler on the Ford. The cab oil filter has gone too! Although the as-found truck looks in quite good shape, you can see on the instrument panel just how much it had been modified with extra holes, gauges, switches etc. Everything needed a lot of work including a replacement engine since the original was rusted solid.
Re painting; the box was removed, sand blasted and epoxy primered (expensive!) before spray painting with semi-gloss air-dry enamel from Brian Asbury. The front sheet metal, which I had brush primered and painted - not very well I have to say, was rubbed down and sprayed with sandable primer, rubbed down again and finished as above. The finish is quite soft and scratches easily but I'm hoping it will harden with time.
Cheers
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