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1965 DC project

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This is our 1965 DC 5FB (5 Free Busses) Project.

We got the DC into the workshop on Sunday at about 3PM, spending its first warm nights inside for more than 15 years. Work was started on Tuesday after the long weekend, and was completely stripped inside and out, scraped, and vacuumed of all dirt and rust particles ...

Seats, rails and runners, panels were stripped, shifter removed, glass removed, clocks taken out. Load bed was stripped, Trailing arm was repaired and welded, so that we can now turn with the steering wheel and not by being tyre kickers :hangloose:

Newer rims and tyres added for the mean time, M code plate recovered and cleaned from inside the Cab, history checked, parts list almost drawn up, Front bumper acquired, Empi Sprint Stars sorted, welders are ready, and we are rearing to go...... At this rate it should be finished by Sunday.... lol! I wish.... :D

Currently plans are to build it up into a Rat look (sorry Blitz) sign written shop truck/ parts hauler, with views to a resto at a later stage....

Added a few pics, Will add some more as we progress
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Good stuff Muderick! I'm glad to see you guys have already started work. :hangloose:

Of all the yard buses, I think you guys got the best one. I'm looking forward to seeing it back on the road.

I'm really glad I gave these buses away. I would have just stripped them for parts and scrapped them. With all the youthful energy and enthusiasm being directed at these buses I'm sure we'll see a few of them back on the road.
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Rat look or not, it's great to see it being fixed up - Much better than being crushed or exported :shock:

I'm waiting to see how this turns out :hangloose:
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Amazing work Muderick!! :hangloose: :hangloose:
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Thanks Fig, Blitz, Chris... the guys at the workshop are fervently into the project for now, and today the entire floorpan in the cab and under the loadbed were stripped and scraped back to bare metal exposing some dodgy fibre glass repair jobs underneath. All the same, it is better that we exposed the gaping holes in order that it can be added to do the to do list.

I am sure more than 10 kgs of gunk, rusty metal and fibre glass was stripped from the floor alone today.

More from me at a later stage....

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Muds,

Excellent work and as Fig says....you are doing exactly the right thing in the spirit of why Fig gave them away!
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Fantastic to see things are happening so quickly. Keep it up! Cant wait to see what your "free" bus is going to look like...
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All the best Muderick.. :hangloose: Your Split will be on the road in no time at this rate :lol:
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Keep going muds, once u slow down and stop, its difficult to get going again.
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Just put in hours one by one and you will get there.
What are you going to do regarding the loading bed?
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I see my surname on the door. (I remember my mom wrote it there so if I lost it they would know who to return it to)

Cant make out the rest, what is written on the door.
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lowlight wrote:What are you going to do regarding the loading bed?
Muds, Paul Cochrane from the CT Kombi Owners Club found someone in CT who pressed repro bed panels for him and they look very close to the original. PM me if you want his contacts.
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