This week was busy. Then there was yesterday, Saturday, in the rain...
Stevie and I left in the Falcon before first light and drove up to Cookey's. Arrived 8.30 in the drizzle. We and spent the whole rainy day there with Cookey. Scotty came down and arrived at Cookey's to help remove the rear GS tub from a donor 69 GS that Cookey selected. ARN 176-610 it turns out.
We got home -still in torrents of rain- at 11pm, at least the Falcon and the GS tub got jet-washed all the way home. No Falcon dramas on the trip this time.
It was a bigs days effort, and a fiddly job. I want to thank the boys for their work but especially I want to thank Cookey for his work and his generosity with time and experience. We owe Cookey a day on his Stg1 restoration. I think Cookey got the brush guard and bumper off in the time it took us to get most of the drivers floor bolts etc, then he got the passenger side floor and box undone too. Scotty and Stevie did a tag team thing on the rear cross-member fixings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLuxKkJeQ7YAt length we loaded the trailer and wagon and headed home with nearly everything GS except scone cutters and a drivers mudguard. Hoops, bonnet, front bar, D tow points, diff light, the list goes on.
I used a box trailer. On the trailer I tied a steel frame for a long table. I had removed the wooden top. We roped the table framework and covered it with old carpet for padding. All 4 of us lifted the tub up onto the table frame then Cookey tied it down. This meant the tub was clear of the trailer mudguards etc. The GS tub and the trailer are roughly the same length and width. Under the tub and frame we stashed the other parts. Worked okay.
