My next project

[rattyrod]

Now that the valiant is finished and my job has finally succumbed to the virus I find myself with some spare time for once . After years of daily driving my 41 it started showing signs of a not so privileged life , so have decided to give it a bit of a facelift . Nothing over the top , will be keeping it filler free , dints where they are and matt paint .Rust will be removed by good friend Rod and windows resealed to keep the rain out , might even put some door rubbers in

[Chrisso]

Sweet Ratty can't keep a good fella down, knowing you it should be the ducks nuts when it's finished.

[King Willy]

She wears her age well mate. Keep it practical, everyone should have a ute!!

[Sly Fox]

That looks cool Ratty, I look forward to following your work

[HOT ROD FRED]

Poor old girl.Won't know what's hit it! BTW,how many miles has the car done, plenty I bet?

[46 deluxe]

You sure do like keeping yourself busy , looking forward to see how this one progresses .

[hudson nut]

I will be watching this closely. I just love the utes I wish we had them here.

Dany

[rattyrod]

The joys of stripping paint ,off at least the guards don’t need any rust repairs


Top coat is Black industrial 2 pac semi gloss and inner fenders are por 15


Tail gate and the rest of the body will be 2 pac matt dark grey , pictures actually look darker than it is

[King Willy]

Bloody hell man, you don't muck about!!!

[47chevyvan]

i love all the odd bod rods that are coming into the rodding scene

[rattyrod]

So in my last post I said the tail gate looked darker than what it was . Guess it doesn’t . I blame Jet , he said go a bit darker
Doing a section at a time due to time and lack of garage space and our Melbourne winter temps . It is an everyday work hack in every sense .
Fred I would love to know how many kms the old girl has done , some jobs I do about 120 km a day for months on end

[rattyrod]

And a quick mock up

[Chrisso]

I'm lovin the look Ratty, very cool.

[wannabe51]

Hey there,
Your project is looking so good!
look forward to progress shots.
cheers

[rattyrod]

My door came back from Rods after some rust repairs , and after some adjustments to the sill which never matched the door contour after someone years ago replaced it with a straight section, a reasonable result was achieved. Whilst stripping the many layers of filler and paint coats off , I found some olive green as the first layer around the return frame edges , possibly an ex military / war effort when it was still a sedan
Welds all ground down and ready for .... paint

My coats of many colors

Welds look like poo but I prefer to do it as a series of spot welds to keep the heat down and reduce blowing holes eveywhere

First pass with the wire wheel

Then tidy up with the stripping disc

Military green perhaps