Bill The Doka

no, found a few worthy candidates in South Africa

 

probably on an 'active' builders plot somewhere in Greece!!

 

Are they cheap?

 

Son-in-law and daughter are there now, we're joining them in April.

 

where at? Any where near Jo'burg? If so you could check out some buses for me

 

could you rather

 

Yes and yes.
Pretoria to be precise but we'll be hanging around Jo'Burg as well.
S-I-L lives there at the moment. He's the one in the picture up there ^^^.
Was genuinely thinking about buying two whilst there, containering them and shipping them back. It'd probably pay for the flights!

 

Could be worth a trip out with the trailer if they're cheap.

 

Some of the resto work as done by @zed .
Let's start at the front.
Front arch etc.

 

Also a bit of repair to the front deformation panel which was surprisingly robust, given the state of the rest of it.





A bit of primer just to stop it rusting until I get round to painting it properly.

 

Noticed the toothbrush is that part of a mechanics toolbox?

Love a good commercial resto...

 

Toothbrushes are really useful.
Poking into holes.
Holding electrical parts when they're live.
Plug cleaning.
Electrical connection cleaning.
Toilet cleaning (that'll be the ex-wife's one then)

 

I've got some 80% phosphoric acid that I scrub on stuff with the toothbrush - like that Marmite repro front arch that went rusty while I went out for a sandwhich and the welds etc. Magic stuff, but nasty, nasty, nasty strong and needs copious washing down and drying. The ugly defo panel repair was a quickie after I thought I'd finished. Put up some of the neat stuff!

 

Looked ok in the first pic didn't it?

 

Here's a few from "before" and then there'll be some of @zed 's handy work.

 

Rear arch.