.. Did you ever manage to source a replacement for the broken windscreen, or did you have to have new one cut?
New glass is being cut for the screen, handily it's flat so not too pricey. Fortunately the remainder of the glass, while not perfect, was ok to be re-used.
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Looking good, and the wood will look even nicer with some tyre tracks on it! hehe
What are the ramps to be made off, and will these go in the lockers? Got to be prepared for when you bid high enough and need to use the dodge to collect your motorcar for which it will be used to transport to races etc! hehe
Were the hatches installed for looking under the car, or was it part of a military thing?
Are you using the orriginal wood to drive up to the wheel arches?
Have you had her running yet?
Sorry for the questions, but they kept coming when reading the update! hehe
Looking good, and the wood will look even nicer with some tyre tracks on it! hehe
What are the ramps to be made off, and will these go in the lockers? Got to be prepared for when you bid high enough and need to use the dodge to collect your motorcar for which it will be used to transport to races etc! hehe
haven't really thought about main ramps as yet, I think due to their length they'd probably be laid out somewhere in the back, perhaps down the centre
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Were the hatches installed for looking under the car, or was it part of a military thing?
think is was military, although as they don't exactly line up with much they're still a bit of a mystery
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Are you using the orriginal wood to drive up to the wheel arches?
yup will be putting those back in
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Have you had her running yet?
not as yet, wouldn't mind hearing it sometime soon though
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Sorry for the questions, but they kept coming when reading the update! hehe
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Looks great Rick.Are you brush painting it,With me seeing the paint brushs in the picture.If so were did you get the brushs from.Also who was it who made your roof guttering thanks Pete
Looks great Rick.Are you brush painting it,With me seeing the paint brushs in the picture.If so were did you get the brushs from.Also who was it who made your roof guttering thanks Pete
Yup it'll be brushes and rollers used. I got these ones from the signwriter who runs Craftmaster Paints, but look on google and they're for sale everywhere.
The side roof gutters are the originals, blasted & straightened. PKD in Stoke could make some I'm sure if you have ones to work with, or good drawings, they've done most of the fiddly fabrication for the Dodge so far.
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Might I suggest that when you get her on the road you get a 'Left-hand drive' warning sticker for the back of the truck? Not period, admittedly, but it might just make other drivers be a bit more careful around you.
yup definitely, plus some (removable) extra-large mirrors too
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Thanks for helping me log in, Rick.
I just wanted to add that in 1940 a CAUTION-LEFT HAND DRIVE sign would not only have been adviseable, but also a legal requirement. I'm sure there is standard wording, format, size, whatever.
Jeeps and so on have their stencilled version, but this thing was around before jeeps made it off the drawing board - actually pretty much exactly the same time as they were coming off the boards - I seem to remember the bodywork drawing was dated January 1941?
I've known G for a longg time, well since Bess the Bus first appeared on the horizon, towed behind a 40s Foden recovery truck. He came down to inspect it, maybe 1996 or 1997, and gave it his nod of approval, and since then has proffered numerous tips and tricks relating to 1939-47 Dodge trucks. He has a fine collection of WW2 Dodges, in addition to machines such as a Snowcat.
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I did have a look over Bess the Bus years back, and advised Rick that she really needed a quick going over and a bit of re-sheeting - seems to me in the intervening years he has done - rather more - than I thought he really had to. I'm happy to have helped with the odd part and the odd contact. She has to be the rarest Dodge I've even seen, as even the 1940 hand-converted prototype trucks tend to have survived in greater numbers. My untidy 1940 military Dodge survivors list;
... lists three of twenty-five Carryalls from the fist batch that have survived.
My specialist subjects are;
US Dodges from around 39 to 41, primarily the military ones.
Tucker Sno-Cats (basically lightweight Dodges with pontoons)
Military trailers and rail adapted vehicles.
I did have a collection of amphibians too, but they have all moved on in favour of the current bunch.
I did have a look over Bess the Bus years back, and advised Rick that she really needed a quick going over and a bit of re-sheeting - seems to me in the intervening years he has done - rather more - than I thought he really had to. I'm happy to have helped with the odd part and the odd contact. She has to be the rarest Dodge I've even seen, as even the 1940 hand-converted prototype trucks tend to have survived in greater numbers.
A bit of re-sheeting would have been nice, but the state of what lay beneath meant that it wouldn't have made much sense to give it a quick bulling up, an expensive paintjob, then have to re-do it all in 5 years time. If it had been sound enough, my preferred option would have been to wipe it over with an oily rag and keep it all original, but with the rear body being so weak, and having sagged over the chassis somewhat, a quick tidy-up wasn't really viable
Not much has been done on it of late, although one bit of good news is that the propshaft saga has been dealt with. The two-piece prop has been machined slightly to take new off-the-shelf lorry UJs, and was checked for straightness and balance while they were at it. I'm hoping that things will pick up on the old girl asap..
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Really pleased today, I received through the post a DVD containing old footage from the Rest and Be Thankful speed hillclimb in Scotland. As well as some later film, it contains two b/w films of the 1950 events, and a colour one from 1952. Lots of footage showing the Alfa, and two decent views of the Dodge in the colour film. Made my day it did
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The re-furb'd prop, and the transmission brake gubbins, are all back on now so I went over yesterday for a nosey. It was nice to see the prop back on again after months of uncertainty about what do to with the badly worn UJs. In the end the prop was machined to accept modern fittings, then balanced.
Progress has been quiet of late but hopefully will pick up again in the new year.
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