Our LRDG Chev

[Andrew H.]

The other day we had a mock-up assembly to see how the seat riser and cab look when they are attached to the chassis and we are quite pleased with the result. The next thing will be to make the rear cab sheet-metal.

[Andrew H.]

Today we made a start on the rear curved cab panel using a friend's home-made English wheel. We were quoted $1,000 by a professional panel-beater to make the rear cab panel but that was far too much for us. It was surprisingly easy to use the English wheel considering we had never done it before. We are constantly finding we can do things we never dreamed we would ever be capable of doing!

In pic 1 the panel is being pushed backwards and forwards through the wheeling machine rather like using an old two-man crosscut saw. You can see the same panel (framed by the wheeling machine) on the restored LRDG truck in the background. Pic 2 shows the new panel temporarily screwed onto the framework of our truck to see if it fits properly (it does). We will spot-weld it onto the framework at a later date.

[Kuno]

Andrew, hi. Good to see that you are making progress on your truck :-)