He was a Army truck, then he was a bush fire truck and he came to me from Warwick.
Many of you know I have a Mk3, ages ago I started prepairing it for a re-paint, then life got in the way.
Anyhow, in the recent few weeks I've been concentrating on to to the almost exclusion of all the other projects. Although I must admit I did move the buggy to the chook shed on Saturday.
Sometime in the dreamtime I made the decision to remove all the two-pack RFS orange paint from the Mk3, prior to the re-paint. This one decision has made what could have been a simple task into my current marathon. Today I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
This weekends work involved undoing all the mountings on the tray, jacking up the tray and installing runners and rollers between the tray and the chassis rails. I then rolled the tray back about 18" from the cab. This one operation allowed me to get between the cab and tray and meant that within a few hours I was able to remove all the orange from the rear of the cab, sand and etch prime any bare metal. Then I turned around and was able to remove all the orange from the front of the tray, sand and similarly etch prime that.
I've removed the mudguards and extensions from the side and rear of the cab and all the bolts and clips poking through the rear of the cab. Basically it's now ready for primer coat. The next job is to remove the remains of the orange paint, this is mostly on the underside of the sun visor/extension of the roof and a few traces on seals and the window class. After that, with help from a friend is the removing the hollow from the roof and MIG'ing up a couple of pin holes and prepairing the fibreglass bonnet for paint.
Maybe by Christmas, I'll have a completely green truck!
A little history.
At initial purchase.




Removing the fire fighting equipment.



Tripod mounted tray (before being removed)

Restoration of dropside and tailgate hinges.

Registered HCRS

Door markings



