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A Doka Update

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Well its been a while since i have updated this. I took a could of months off from the van, I was working on another project, a house for my father so it was only the middle of October when i got back to the van. I have been doing lots of small jobs not [...]

I have been making progress over the last while, started re-assembling the van so it looks more complete. I should say we as Steven has been involved in every step with me. Steve in Alma’s brother and has been taking time out of his busy drinking schedule to help!! As you can see the outside [...]

She is red

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I’ll get better pics tomorrow. Happy enough only 3 runs which can be sanded down

So after a month of sanding i’m finally seeing a glimpse of the end of the road. Its just the inside of the van and the backs of the dropsides but its a start. the dropsides look rough because they are!! they where coated with stonechip on the inside before i primered and painted them

Well I have been doing a bit of work on the van over the last week, actually I should have we as I have had Stephen working with me all week all be it, it was a steep learning curve for him but he got up to speed by the end of the week. We [...]

since my last update but i have been working on the van in the background, mind you, thinking about it now it doesn’t seem like a lot but not to worry, it was never supposed to be a rush projects. I’m going to have to try remember what i have done in the mean time. [...]

There will be a few little bits more welding to do as time goes on but for now i’m declaring the body welding finished. I had also cut off the tail gates, i’ll have to figure out a way of putting them on again but the pins where ceased in the hinges but i’ll sort [...]

but i have been doing work on the van just haven’t been updating the blog as its slow going. I’m starting to make some progress, i’m nearly finished the welding on the main body, then the bodywork can start. Since i updated ye last here is what i got done. The side panel bottom was [...]