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

[robbie.cee]

Look forward to seeing her finished!

[oldyellar]

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

Nice one mate looking forward to see'ing it

[Luke]

look forward to seeing this done are you doing anything with the wheels

[AlanN]

I recognise that green looking really good

[DieselRox]

Hi again all, so heres another update, this is all the rot i cut out off my truck, it turned into quite a task but got there in the end!!!..It filled my wheel barrow!!! pmsl[/img].
Finally got to shoot the colour this last week......drum roll lol.....So in the end i caved in to Ford RS ultimate green, its an in ya face colour but with the yellow pearl i think makes it something else, i carnt wait to get it out in the sun!!
Heres a pic of my mate putting the base coat on

Second base coat

Three coats of base coat then onto the yellow pearl, again 3 coats of this were laid down

Then we got carried away with the laquer, we said f@@k it and gave it 5 coats lol

So with the primer, shes had 12 coats of paint....hope that keeps the tin worm at bay!!

[DieselRox]

Bonnet after 5 coats of laquer



bulding the front bumper up with the grills and spots + badges


i pulled some of the masking off ,see what it looked like with the doors and bonnet fitted

starting to buld it back up now

[DieselRox]

Hi Luke, yes i took the wheels off, took them to work and had them blasted and painted black,its a twin rear wheeler so im going for euroliners when its finished

[dannyboy81]

PROPER JOB.......... WHAT BUMPER IS THAT LOOKS BEAUTIFUL SHE BE SOLID FOR ANOTHER 15-20yrs with all them panels looks immense brv (y)

[DieselRox]

Thanks Dan, its a focus Rs mk2 front bumper grafted onto transit fittings=lots of work C/O Nick on here
Hope i never sell it, lots of blood sweat and tears if you catch my drift
ATB
Rich

[transit mark]

i like that, looking forward to seeing it finsihed.

[BigMonty]

What a truck. Awesome ! I would be scared to use it for work.

[karl]

Cracking job Their,great coulor as well

[DieselRox]

Thanks guys, just got to get her finished now!

[oldyellar]

nice mate looks like that paint was laid down proper saw alot of vans done that colour and turned out a mess

[robbie.cee]

Cracking stuff dude!