Our LRDG Chev

[Dinty]

Absolutely spectacular, well done, cheers Dennis

[Marc Montgomery]

Beauty !! I don't know if there are any of these in Canada! (most people think it was the Americans who fought Rommel..thanks to the "Rat Patrol" tv show)

[Andrew H.]

Our LRDG truck is still not quite finished - there are still some small things to do including the "bush bars" that attach to the front bumper. We decided to make these from scratch ourselves, using a home-made forge. We got the measurements from a very helpful earlier post on this same thread (thanks Jordan Baker from Ontario!). We had never made or used a forge before, so it was "in at the deep-end" as usual. We used an old cut-down water pump pressure cylinder lined with fire-bricks and with air forced in from a vacuum cleaner with the air-flow reversed. We wanted to achieve a nice yellow colour where the steel is about 1,000 degrees C and very easy to bend, but we only managed cherry-red due to our inexperience and the poor design of the forge. So we had to do a lot of hammering and re-heating before we got the right shape for the "eyes".

[Pete Ashby]

That is a cracking good job really impressed with the improvisation

Pete

[Andrew H.]

Part of the enjoyment of owning a LRDG truck is all of the things you can add to it, to make it more authentic. In a well-established tradition of cutting costs and doing everything ourselves, I have for the last few months been making a Bagnold sun compass. I was put off by the high cost of buying one so I did most of it myself except for the engraved top plate, which was made commercially. I also had the help of a very good friend who has a lathe. The final cost at $NZ500 is about one third that of a commercially made sun compass. It works just like a real one.

[David Dunlop]

That is a thing of beauty, Andrew. I doffs me hat!

David

[Lynn Eades]

Yes! that looks real smart. Nice job!.