Thread: 1930 model a pickup

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this is a project i bought 4 yrs ago that had been sitting in a friends garage for 3 yrs after he took it off the road for a quick repaint and change of motor he lost interest and my plan was to finish it and get it back on the road in 6mnths
but life gets in the way and its taken me along time to get to where it is now.
these first few pics are taken a month after i got it when i was working on it every night.




i had the body stored in various places being paranoid about the paint

it was a big jigsaw that took ages to get back together as all the bolts/bits were muddled up and i found that alot of the chassis assembly wasn't done correctly so had to be redone.

Looks nice Mark, and I for one certainly understand how 6 months turn into 4 years on a project!!!! Matter of fact, I resemble that comment!!!!

Mark you are not alone in that boat. Looks like a nice project

Guilty as charged... 'cept mine was 11 years! LOL.. That's some "color" WOW!

Yep, they'll definitely see you coming in that color!! Chassis looks to be well done!

Kind of'a "safety green" ?

looks good to me and I like the color but then I like colors that jump out at you

I like your little truck ..................well done

been plodding along on this for the last few years and finally got it to the stage where i could take it into the auto electrician for wiring.






towed it in behind my work truck on a trailor i built specially to take this and my roadster in and out of town for work to be done on them.

some more progress
changed the wooden dash to a steel/painted one and installed a limeworks steering column and 4 spoke wheel.
also installed a lokar shifter and handbrake.

also the electrician has finished the wiring and we fired the motor and ran it thru the gears while up on jack stands.
while that sounds easy- the reality was far different, afterall the motor had sat for 7yrs.
first thing done was to wind it over by hand with the spark plugs out and rocker covers off after squirting a mixture of crc 5.56
and lite machine oil down the bores.
then wound over on the starter mtr until oil pressure came up(just short bursts on the starter) and oil flowed out the pushrods.
this all went well until oil came flowing out from under the car on the concrete to my side (starter side)-bloody hell!!!
1st problem-oil filter was scewed up tight but upon inspection was wrong diameter o-ring (too small) and it hadn't bedded on the block boss.
took awhile to sort out as the thread in the filter adapter was way bigger then all my new oil filters and our local auto shop couldn't supply one.
ended up taking an adapter off one of my spare motors.
next problem after that was trying to get fuel up to the carb-bought this pickup with the saddle tanks setup so checked all that and the
switch over solenoid- all fine .turned out the (supposedly) new fuel pump was puckerood so had to order a new one of those. did you know there
were 4 different versions with regard to outlet thread size and location and my one was the hardest to get-bummer.
more of the saga later.

The truck's looking good! And the one pulling is OK, too!

Yep, Nice Rides! And beautiful surroundings also!!!

Originally Posted by 34_40

Yep, Nice Rides! And beautiful surroundings also!!!

Of course the surroundings are beautiful!
It's New Zealand...God's Own Country!


(Although it must be said that where sharpmark lives, Rotorua, is one of the more picturesque areas.)