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Latest Film 8th January 2025

#62 - Nearly Done!

The Bedford Truck Restoration Series
(in reverse order)
...

#61 - Fitting The Doors

#58 - Will it Start? Can We Get This 50 Year Old Engine Running Again?

#54 - The Engine is Done, The Wheels Are On & We Are Ready to Roll ...

#51 - Untangling A Plate of Spaghetti ...
Tim Fabricates all NEW Metal Brake & Air Lines ...

#48 - From GRIME to SHINE! The Massive front axle is getting ALL the love in our latest instalment ...

#60 - It's Really Coming Together At Last!

#57 - We're Finally Installing The Carpet in The Cab ... Luxury at Last!

#55 - The Engine is Going In!

#53 - Did the Magic of Cerakote Solve all of Our Painting Dilemmas?

#50 - Lisa Quits? Did Restoring The Six Massive Wheels Leave Us Feeling ... Deflated?

#47 - The Bedford Truck is All Coming Together! ... Except for The Giant, Massive, Front Axle, Which is Coming Apart!

#59 - It's The BIG ONE! We Are Finally Fitting The Cab!

#56 - Polishing Up The Cab & Getting Ready to Re-unite it With The Chassis

#52 - What Would YOU Do with This 50 Year Old Petrol Engine?

#49 - Restoring The Mighty Front Axle ...

#46 -This week we take delivery of a massive, industrial sized compressor, which should, we hope, make going forward a whole lot quicker and easier, especially when it comes to sandblasting!

#45 - We're rustproofing parts of the bodywork that painting couldn't reach ... and making a right ol' mess in the process!

#42 - After a long gap between videos whilst we sorted out our living situation (Thank you, pesky Landlord-from-Hell!) We are back to pick things up (literally!) where we left them ...

#39 - Taking apart and restoring the rusty old leaf springs ...

#36 - Can we do this? The chassis frame begins to feel like an insurmountable task. Will we be able to finish it?

#33 - Is This The World's Greatest Headliner?
Well, we've never seen anything quite like it before, so yes, we think it probably is!

#30 - Trying to Stay Motivated!
We've devised a handy tick list to help us stay on track!

#27 - Sandblasting is HARD!
Will We Make it Through The Week?

#24 - Building Our 'Epic' Wooden Headliner
We have some problem solving to do this week, bending wooden planks and trying to figure out how to construct our headliner ...

#21 - A Christmas Miracle?
Could it be? Could it FINALLY be?
Yes, it could!
Mains Electricity finally makes it to The Workshop!

#18 - The Big Top Coat!
We're Finally Getting The Top Coat on just in Time for Winter - Find Out The Colour in This Video!

#15 - PAINT!
The First Coat of Shiny, Shiny Primer goes on & We Are CELEBRATING!

#12 - Building A Spray Tent & Sandblasting The Cab

#9 - Converting a Salvaged Gas Oven to Electric ... For less than a fiver ...

#6 - Dismantling The Bedford MK
Stripping The Bedford Right Down
to its
Undercarriage!

#3 - Building A HUGE Workbench
on A tiny Budget

#44 - This week, we're re-building the transfer box ...

#41 - Tough times, Folks, tough times. We have the January Blues as we battle the cold weather and an unexpected Section 21 eviction notice.

#38 - Taking it one day at a time right now and trying not to get overwhelmed ...

#35 - Things get REALLY TOUGH as we embark on the sandblasting of the MASSIVE Chassis Frame

#32 - Getting Back to The Project We Started Several Months Ago

#29 - Tackling The Doors (Man!)
Tim finally faces his nemesis ...

#26 - What's Next For The Truck?
A Catch-Up

#23 - DIY Powder Coating
We perform some alchemy and transform all the rusty, musty bits of metal into Silver & Gold

#20 - SOUNDPROOFING The Cab
Transforming this tin can into a luxury ride? ... Maybe ...

#17 - Last Prep Before Top Coat!
Applying The High Build Primer ...

#14 - Barking Mad?
Sandblasting gets Serious ...

#11 - Lisa's Taking Welding Lessons!

#8 - Paint Scraping, Building A DIY Sandblaster and the Salvaging of One Very Grimy Oven ...

#5 - Choice or Necessity?
Why Are We Building A Home on The Back of A Truck?
Part 2: Meet Us

#2 - Rescuing Our Stuff from
Damp, Mouldy Storage Containers

#43 - Getting back to work with some shiny, shiny nickel and copper plating.

#40 - Axles & Evictions! It's Going Well in the workshop but other challenges in life are slowing us down.

#37 - It's been one hell of a journey, but this week, we finish the chassis frame at last!

#34 - Phase 2 of the Big Project Begins this week as we dismantle the chassis and remove the engine ...

#31 - We Finally Finish the Restoration and Painting of All The Big Panels.

#28 - Will This Pain Never End?
Continuing to 'blast' our way through all the big panels ...

#25 - Zinc Plating
From Grimy to Shiny - We perform alchemy on all our rusty, little bits!

#22 - Inventions & Experimentations
Tim goes full Mad Inventor in this one, so strap in, it's a (slightly) dangerous ride ...

#19 - We FINISH Restoring The Cab at long last ...
Don't miss the unveiling of the cab in all her glorious shiny new colours ...

#16 - Bodyfiller, Fibreglass &
SO MUCH SANDING!
Yes, sanding IS boring. It's dirty, messy and it really gets in your nostrils ... But, someone's got to do it ...

#13 - Overcoming Adversity?
This was the week when EVERYTHING went wrong!

#10 - Welding, Grinding & Panel Beating / Repairing the rust holes in our 1975 Bedford Truck ...

#7 - More Dismantling of
The Bedford Cab!
All The Fiddly Bits an' Everything ...

#4 - How & Why we are Building A Tiny Home
on The Back of A 1975 Bedford Firetruck
Part 1: Meet The Truck

#1 - A New Workshop
& Delivery of the BIG BEDFORD

Caravan Life!

When we were unceremoniously evicted from our rented home of 8 years with the notorious Section 21 Notice, we had no choice but to downsize quickly into a caravan. It was a brutal process. With just weeks to go, in the middle of a really grim winter, we had to pack up and sell most of our belongings, including all of our furniture, find a site which would accept us for 12 months of the year, find a suitable caravan within our meagre budget, transport the caravan to the workshop to make it decent and comfortable, and then transport it to the pitch ... With a cat. Find out how we got on in this, what we anticipate will be the first of many more, videos on full time caravan life in the UK.