Conrod's 1972 Mk1 V8

[conrod]

wow...quality work going on there mate..

this van will be a stunnner when done! really enjoying watching its progress..

Thanks Declan, I am quite excited seeing the progress myself! Just trying to decide what colour I am going to paint it. Was going to keep it silver, but all of the exterior will need repainting, and over half of the interior, so will probably go for a colour change.

Some more progress pics. RR panel all welded up now. The mid panel, behind the drivers door had up to 20mm of filler in places, and was quite stretched. So it was decided to cut this out and make a new panel.

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[conrod]

RH side getting there, panels tacked in and looking good!

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[conrod]

RHS all welded up now. Just a little sanding off welds to finish. Check out the detail on the horizontal bracing inside, those are new fabricated parts!

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[conrod]

Picked up the Mk1 from body shop yesterday, super happy with the result! Need to strip it down, and deliver to the paint shop next. Some old switch holes in the dash welded up, I will repaint the whole dash. Did a quick test fit of the NOS tail lights in the new rear D pillars. Couldn't resist the last pic, 8th gen Transit towing 1st gen, that must make the Mk1 its great great great great great grandad!

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[conrod]

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[Altransit]

Fantastic

[Neil]

much better , nice job

[spudmab]

Lovely job, its hard to find good body people now days, everything is crap plastic bolt on rubbish so the true craftsman are a dying breed

Have you worked out the colour yet??

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[conrod]

thanks guys, yep was quite pleased to have found this guy. I have already booked my Mk2 Sundowner in with him to have the repairs done

I think I am going to go for Ermine white. It will still lend itself well for TV and movie production company's to dress it up as a police van etc. (with a set of standard wheels and hubcaps fitted)

I might possibly put a stripe on it too, in vinyl. (which can be removed easily for said production company's)

I was thinking something like this, as a nod to the original Supervan? (just the stripe with FORD lettering, , not the Supervan script)

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[Neil]

are you fitting a bulkhead panal in

[conrod]

are you fitting a bulkhead panal in

no, I doubt I would find one in NZ anyway!

[spudmab]

thanks guys, yep was quite pleased to have found this guy. I have already booked my Mk2 Sundowner in with him to have the repairs done

I think I am going to go for Ermine white. It will still lend itself well for TV and movie production company's to dress it up as a police van etc. (with a set of standard wheels and hubcaps fitted)

I might possibly put a stripe on it too, in vinyl. (which can be removed easily for said production company's)

I was thinking something like this, as a nod to the original Supervan? (just the stripe with FORD lettering, , not the Supervan script)

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Cool, i had a mk2 1600e Cortina in ermine white, the stripes would be a nice addition

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[conrod]

After delivering it to the shop for panel and paint, we decided that to do the job properly the van should be sandblasted. There was still layers of paint and filler which had accumulated over the years (which would take days to strip off anyway) and blasting gets in all of those cracks and crevices where mechanical stripping does not. SO, another week or so later, another invoice paid, and the van was media blasted! I immediately took it back to the paint shop, hoping it would not rain on the bare metal, and a coat of etch primer was applied over all of the blasted areas. Fortunately the blasting did not reveal too many hidden nastiness. Mainly just one area around the fuel filler/left rear wheelarch where there was a hole and a lot of filler, so that will need a repair, as well as various small dents which will requite tapping out and some filler before paint is applied.

[conrod]

more pics...........

[oldyellar]

Amazing work Conrod