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Rolling chassis... Cheers

A few random pics, more updates soon. Cheers

There are two things I don’t discuss in public concerning a build, Cost and the owners identity. Both, the owner is free to share if they want. I respect people’s right to privacy and ask my clients if they are ok with me sharing their builds before I share anything. If you are serious about...

Assembly of the chassis has begun. :) Cheers

And just for poo and giggles, we got a 67 long bed pickup build going in the shop. Dropping a 1HDFT 24-valve turbo diesel goodness in it along with a bunch of other goodies. Cheers

Body is back in the shop after sealing it up. Had a few issues with rear differential carrier bolts and I want to use solid pinion spacers to set up the 3rd members. All of the last parts should be here early to mid next week and then we build a rolling chassis! Body repairs probably...

Thank you. You all know when this will get really good!? When this truck and it’s owner are on an around the world drive! :cool: Cheers

Troopy body fresh out of the blasting booth. Cheers

Chassis parts back from paint. Now the fun begins. :) Cheers

Rebuilt the Panhard mount on the Troopy’s rear axle. Cheers

Troopy body is in the blasting booth. :) Cheers

End of a long hard few days when I posted the above pics, hence no description. Frame fresh from the blaster, not pictured is front axle housing and associated parts. Rear housing we had a spindle damaged beyond repair so a replacement housing was sourced. That along with the body on the...

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Gutters all stripped of factory seam sealer. Few areas need some attention but overall they are good. Old school trick here to clean out hollow areas real well. Another old school trick to quickly remove the factory seam sealer in the wheel wells. Chassis is done at blaster, swapping...

You are not ready for an international trip if you are asking people for horror stories. Forget these kind of thoughts or an international trip in your own truck is not for you. Now that is not to say you shouldn’t be vigilant and plan for safe travel. I opened your thread though and in my...

Bump Coming up fast on ten years since I did this trip. It was glorious, memories to last a lifetime! :) Cheers

With that all done it was time for the next step. Strip down the chassis in prep for sand blasting. Axle parts cleaned up, hadn't pulled studs yet in this picture. Frame ready to go. I hired Adam Churnside, formally of Tor Fab recently. We got the frame and axles off to the sand...

New shop new tools. I got the Troopy body on the rotisserie. I got the last of the things pulled from it like rear cargo windows. I will be doing all the rust repairs on this truck. We have a lot of new OEM Toyota body parts but there will be some fab as well. These areas all need to be...

A couple of the other Cruisers I had to deal with before I could get back on the Troopy. And move into a new shop! It took me about three weeks to get all moved, setup and back to working on Cruisers full time. TBC Cheers

I have built a few of these Cruisers on 80-series chassis. This time I decided to build the body mounts from scratch and weld them up. They begin to take shape. Getting them fitted under the Cruiser. Here is where the Troopy landed on the 80 frame, this was as low as I could get it...