Customising my smiley recovery truck!..the story so far!!

[DieselRox]

Hi all!! Bought this Mk5 in August last year and have been working on it as and when spare time allows!! It had been stood for two years or so.The dreaded tin worm had well and truly set hold On the plus side it came with Air suspension, was a new winch with remote, and new body before it was laid up as it was no longer big enough for ferrying vintage tractors to and from shows Got it home an straight away booked it in for MOT and it failed on a tyre and rotton body work, drives really nice and seems mechanically sound........So it was time to drag my welder out!!


I removed the body to gain easy access to the chassis as this was on the hit list lol(Diesel and Roxy doggies there for guidance )


Had some plates made up at my work, folded into U sections and welded them onto the chassis at home


I bought a Pot blaster and blasted the chassis at home, took a while, and sand media went evertwhere!!

Ready for c400 indutrial primer


Primed then 4 coats of chassis black(no pics of this)

[DieselRox]

Then it was onto the cab!

worse than i thought


Lots of grinding and cutting


Proceeded to fit new inner,outer wings,inner/outer sills,arches and steps to both sides! Bought an air Joggler which proved very handy for all this lot!

[DieselRox]

More pictures


Cut and grafted in the drivers side step so i keep the chassis number in tack

Wing in place

Vented bonnet, RS Focus MK2 grafted onto Transit fittings,Thanks to Alan and Nick on here,twin headlight conversion all going in Carnt decide though on the final colour,ive got it down to two choices, Ford RS escort cosworth imperial blue with the hint of purple or Ford RS ultimate green!!

Gotto admit the Green looks boss......Hmmmmmm

Stripped!!!

[DieselRox]

Yup!!! More pictures!! te he


Test assembled before paint


Masking Up!

Doors prepped and masked up ready for primer

Lots of masking!


Doors in primer

[DieselRox]

Lots of coats of white high build primer(3 litres) smooths down lovely




So i decided on a black roof and back using some 2k black gloss


Got a good finish....It shines!!

[swtransit]

nice! looking forward to seeing more!

[transit mark]

Some good work there, looking forward to seeing more.

Mark

[oldyellar]

love it mate good work nice to c all the good picture aswell that rs green is nice at first and after a while starts to looks sh*t imo alot of vans up hear painted that colour there was a mk5 transit cosworth in the blue too and it was nice kinda fitting for that eara of van too
if it was me i would be differant and exclusive and go jewel violet
only ever saw one van atemted to pe painted this shade and it was a newever think good knows if it got finnished

[Rumble bee]

+1 for jewel violet.

Looks like it'll be a smart looking truck whatever colour you go for

[focusturbo]

looks like its gonna be a nice truck , cant wait to see the finished paint pics

[Frank190]

truck - great work so far !

[BigMonty]

WOW ! Great work.
Gonna be the best looking smiley recovery truck around !!

[priesty]

nice work

[robbie.cee]

That's gonna be one well cool recovery truck mate ...

Should win a trophy it two at this years transitmania!

[DieselRox]

Thanks guys!!! Its nice to hear from you all and your encouraging thoughts ,this truck of mine has turned into my Armageddon ,its just kinda snowballed into a mega project.
The latest news is ive decided on the final colour and im picking the paint up from York today, so if all goes according to plan i will have some more pictures to post up by the weekend.......Not saying what colour just yet.....Keep you all guessing! te he. Roll on TransitMania 2013!!

ATB
Rich