LJ81- Pickup restauration 2017, ready spring 2018

Start restoration summer 2017, we hope to be ready summer 2018, and we did ready juni 2018 100 % nice driven car !!

: Found in the Klondike, old golddigger cars

: this was the loadfloor

: this was a wrong engine not the F8A

: safety bars

: Klondike Alaska-Canada to Holland

: 3 LJ81 cars in one container

: Uit of the container aug 2016

: on his last trip to Eljeeholland his place TRIEMEN

: all 3 Lj 81 together in Triemen

: proof not is the Klondike

: dismantling the car 2017

: bad sides

: lets hope we can restore it

: backside

: ready for carbondioxide blasting ( Co2 )

: motorcompartment

: Bottinga cleaning with Co2 ice

: mooi werk !!

: making from two cabines, one good one

: ready for the welding shop

: reapair must be done in the qweldingshop

: on his way to the welding and printshop

: more ten 2 cm off filler summer 2017

: nice work can be made with new sheetmetal

: also this in not to repair, filler was 2 cm thick

: this is better original lj80 rockerpanels

: after c02 blasting

: hood after c02 blasting

: new original doors

: new original front and grille

: Brand new original front fenders

: pictures from how it is build

: other that lj80

: pictures for restoring later

: petrolfill cap complete different as lj80

: how nice this still is , we clean and sandblast it and p[aint and put it back together at the same way

: Fastening safety belts

: The fire was is cut out the old LJ80 VAN

: rebuild cabin

: nice too see

: insite rust

: the metalworker

: The firewall cut out and used again

: new toropedo’s from LJ80 Q, this measns smaller ribs

: we use new torpedo’s from a LJ80Q and rebuild it to LJ80V

: Here you see the big rib in a LJ80van

: Old floors are like it has blown by a shotgun

: The old roof, full with rust and dents

: when everything fits then it will be spot welded

: inside new floors

: Nice new TROA floors

: new floors from TROA, Trucks off America, my sheet metal supplier

: Now it looks again better

: Cabin before welding

: new torpedo sides L & R

: Now it looks again like a cab with doors in good working order

: so it come, broken tow and bumper hooks

: we welded in new hooks and front tow from an other car

: before grit blasting

: loading deck ready for sandblasted with steel grit

: chassis sandblasted already

: ready 22-11-17

: again home

: a lot off pieces mounted already

: Tank very damaged by big rocks in the yukon

: inside the tank biog dents

: we opened the tanks from above

: so it was above

: so it is inside

: rust inside

: this side was ok

: oeps, a little too much !

: The side gates after co2 blasting

: The rear gate after co2 blasting

: rear gate

: alle 3 gates

: front gate

: new top on the front gate

: front gate loading deck again 100 %

: primeren

: the load deck

: werking on the deck

: Cabine nice job

: furore with the cabine

: and again

: looks nice

: job well done

: job well done

: resting

: front pieces

: front grille new in his last primer

: last primeren

: first in body shuts

: just before painting in color

: waiting for assemble

: resting

: 4-1-18 painting

: nice

: the paint master himself

: resting

: inside body shuts

: nice job

: resting

New engine build in spring 2022 , new short block and pistons and crankshaft etc standard 0.00 measurements , all new original parts.