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The lack of servo makes the brakes quite alarming against even anything else of the era. You can use a bulkhead cut from a 2F polo to add a servo. I can't remember if I did that or not when I did a 1.3GT 2F drivetrain and harness swap into a 2. Can't find any pics of doing it sadly.

Sunday night camping was only open to RR club members. Fire pits need to be off the floor an not excessive in size and kept under control unless anything has changed recently that I’m not aware of. As for a show area for toilet transport, I’m sure HoTWire will fill us in.

Started to work through the programming, the truck has been build and wired as such as an Aussie or European spec, so some tweaks needed to allow US combination rear lamps and parking lamps integrated into the turn signals as the front and rear turn signals are slaved together.



Got a bit out of hand 😅

A little back story. A friend on the West Country RC Truck Club committee recently bought this Ford LTL9000, we have very similar tastes when it comes to these trucks so was excited to show me it when he was buying it. He got as part of the deal some spare cabs, and I love the LTL so I had enquired about obtaining one of the spare cabs for myself.
He was recently offered a Kenworth T909 which I will say is stunning and as such wanted to move the LTL on to make space and funds so offered me first refusal. I jumped at the chance, as I’ve been told it might be the only one in the UK.

Here it is with Hellhound.



It needs some tweaks and finishing, but I’ll work through it. For now I’m going to get it up and running and enjoy it.

First little job in front of the tv was the sleeper pod.
Before:



And with the windows fitted in with gloss black vinyl. A big improvement

The Atwell Wilson museum in Calne has an electric Partner and a 106. The 106 is literally brand new, donated by Peugeot, and I think the partner is too.
atwellwilson.org.uk/index.html

Doesn’t have the same shape as the ‘coupe’ though.

No huge updates recently, been busy all over the place in small doses so nothing amazing to post. Have done some bits though, I snagged a set of Hadley horns for Hellhound



As well as a huge pile of bits including 2 Beier USM RC’s so I can do some more fancy electronics, as well as a dump bed that I think will find its way onto the SK.



Also finally got some super-singles for the steer wheels on hellhound, as they looked a little off with 22mm ones. Not sure if they are on in these pics though.







Otherwise I’ve been tasked with jazzing up the chassis of a truck a friend has just bought, adding a basic light controller and redoing a few bits, and a few additional parts. He wanted chrome full fenders and I happened to have a set from a tanker trailer so made up some brackets for them.



Truck came with a euro rear transom which was handy as he wanted a bumper bar refitting and the stock king hauler transom wouldn’t work with the arches. So I modified the euro one to take the bar, and added lights. He has the body for paint at the moment.







He had mentioned that he wanted to remake the deck plates but seeing as these are proper metal chequer plate I scrubbed the black flakey paint of and refitted, hopefully he’s happy with them. Looks smart.



That’s all for now.

Still got the old girl. Decided last year we needed to start some better renovation, so we ordered a new pop-top canvas from a chap in Chichester IIRC.
Removed the very-past it canvas and the roof cap as the canvas is crimped to the cap.



Did the work on the dining room table.



Decided while it was in the workshop to start the repaint. At last. This was amusing. 3 PC fans.



Colour test. Needs 2 coats. Am brush painting it with Rustoleum Combicolour as it levels really well and I can't be bothered to mask the van up to spray it, it'd be a waste of time as it's already been painted 3 times as it is.

Exactly this. I did the same when I painted the Mazda blue and left the bay white as it looks intentional.



Great work so far. Colour looks fab!