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Latest Film 6th September 2024

It's The End of An Era ...

The Bedford Truck Restoration Series

#1 - A New Workshop 
& Delivery of the BIG BEDFORD 
#4 - How & Why we are Building A Tiny Home
on The Back of A 1975 Bedford Firetruck
​Part 1: Meet The Truck
#7 - More Dismantling of
The Bedford Cab!
​All The Fiddly Bits an' Everything ...
#2 - Rescuing Our Stuff from
​Damp, Mouldy Storage Containers
#5 - Choice or Necessity? 
Why Are We Building A Home on The Back of A Truck?
​Part 2: Meet Us
#8 - Paint Scraping, Building A DIY Sandblaster and the Salvaging of One Very Grimy Oven ...
#3 - Building A HUGE Workbench
on A tiny Budget
#6 - Dismantling The Bedford MK
Stripping The Bedford Right Down
to its
​Undercarriage!
#9 - Converting a Salvaged Gas Oven to Electric ... For less than a fiver ...
#10 - Welding, Grinding & Panel Beating / Repairing the rust holes in our 1975 Bedford Truck ...
#13 - Overcoming Adversity?
This was the week when EVERYTHING went wrong!
#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 ...
#19 - We FINISH Restoring The Cab at long last ...
Don't miss the unveiling of the cab in all her glorious shiny new colours ...
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#22 - Inventions & Experimentations
Tim goes full Mad Inventor in this one, so strap in, it's a (slightly) dangerous ride ...
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#25 - Zinc Plating
From Grimy to Shiny - We perform alchemy on all our rusty, little bits!
#28 - Will This Pain Never End?
​Continuing to 'blast' our way through all the big panels ...
#31 - We Finally Fish the Restoration and Painting of All The Big Panels.

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#34 - Phase 2 of the Big Project Begins this week as we dismantle the chassis and remove the engine ...
#37 - It's been one hell of a journey, but this week, we finish the chassis frame at last!
#40 - Axles & Evictions! It's Going Well in the workshop but other challenges in life are slowing us down. 
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#43 - Getting back to work with some shiny, shiny nickel and copper plating.
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 #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!
#49 - Restoring The Mighty Front Axle ...
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#52 - What Would YOU Do with This 50 Year Old Petrol Engine?
#11 - Lisa's Taking Welding Lessons!

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#14 - Barking Mad?
Sandblasting gets Serious ...
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#17 - Last Prep Before Top Coat!
​Applying The High Build Primer ...


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#20 - SOUNDPROOFING The Cab
Transforming this tin can into a luxury ride? ... Maybe ...
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#23 - DIY Powder Coating
We perform some alchemy and transform all the rusty, musty bits of metal into Silver & Gold
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#26 - What's Next For The Truck?
A Catch-Up
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#29 - Tackling The Doors (Man!)
​Tim finally faces his nemesis ...
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#32 - Getting Back to The Project We Started Several Months Ago

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#35 - Things get REALLY TOUGH as we embark on the sandblasting of the MASSIVE Chassis Frame
#38 - Taking it one day at a time right now and trying not to get overwhelmed ...
#41 - Tough times, Folks, tough times. We have the January Blues as we battle the cold weather and an unexpected Section 21 eviction notice.
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#44 - This week, we're re-building the transfer box ...
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#47 - The Bedford Truck is All Coming Together! ... Except for The Giant, Massive, Front Axle, Which is Coming Apart!
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#50 - Lisa Quits? Did Restoring The Six Massive Wheels Leave Us Feeling ... Deflated?
#53 - Did the Magic of Cerakote Solve all of Our Painting Dilemmas?
#12 - Building A Spray Tent & Sandblasting The Cab 
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#15 - PAINT!
The First Coat of Shiny, Shiny Primer goes on & We Are CELEBRATING!
#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!
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#21 - A Christmas Miracle?
Could it be? Could it FINALLY be?
Yes, it could!
Mains Electricity finally makes it to The Workshop!
#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 ...
#27 - Sandblasting is HARD!
​Will We Make it Through The Week?
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#30 - Trying to Stay Motivated!
We've devised a handy tick list to help us stay on track!
#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!
#36 - Can we do this? The chassis frame begins to feel like an insurmountable task. Will we be able to finish it?
#39 - Taking apart and restoring the rusty old leaf springs ...
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#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 ...
#45 - We're rustproofing parts of the bodywork that painting couldn't reach ... and making a right ol' mess in the process!
#48 - From GRIME to SHINE! The Massive front axle is getting ALL the love in our latest instalment ...

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#51 - Untangling A Plate of Spaghetti ...
​Tim Fabricates all NEW Metal Brake & Air Lines ...
#54 - The Engine is Done, The Wheels Are On & We Are Ready to Roll ...

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.

Some Films we Made Earlier ...

A Tour of our HouseBoat,
​The May Queen
Living on A Boat in A Storm
Recycling A Load of Old Metal
A Grand Day Out at
The Mount Edgcumbe Car Show
​with our '41 Ford Truck - 2018
Making Elderflower Cordial
​The Old Rope Salvage Way!
Tim's Tour Around his
​Upcycled Onboard Kitchen
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