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Davo J:

Davo

I hear talk of your show truck and see your avatar with a truck. Would you by any chance be able to post a picture of your show truck. Thanks.  :D :D

Cheers  :beer:

Don

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Hi,
As you see from above I was asked by Don to post up a bigger picture of our show truck that I spoke about in Darren's shaper thread which is also in my avatar.
It started life as a Datsun 720 2wd that we bought for $750. Every thing from and including the bull bar to the tow bar was built and done by myself a home.
It is now been completely sand blasted inside and out and converted to 4wd with a commodore V6, custom interior, 18inch wheels, modified chassis for power steering, hydraulic tipper, custom tray, 500kg crane, 9000lbs winch, stainless steel tool boxes, etc, etc. We were able to order number plates with "1TOP720" on them as well.
It is also fully engineered, the engineer said a normal inspection took 20 minutes but spent 1 1/2 hours admiring it. He also said that on average there are 30,000 nuts and bolts in a car and I had touched every one.

I have heaps of pictures my wife took of the rebuild over the 3 years. It was not built for showing, only a work truck. That changed after a mate told us to enter it into the Ute section at a local show and we won. One show led to another and it has now won 44 trophies from 36 shows so far, we have had an offer of $50.000 it for, but it's not for sale.It cost us around $22,000 over the 3 years and only has 4500km on it so far.
I haven't posted in this section before, as I have never thought to put the truck on. If anyone is interested in the rebuild I will do a right up of it, with heap of photo's from start to finish.

Davo
 
PS
Don,
 At one show we were talking to some Canadians over here on holidays. They were very nice people, and said they had not heard the term "Ute" before.

Bernd:
Yes, a write up of how you did that with pictures would be nice.

I've always admired people who could take something like that truck and turn it into something beautiful like you've done.  :clap:

Bernd

dsquire:
Davo

Thanks Davo for posting the pictures of your show truck. I agree with Bernd, it would be nice to see some more of the pictures as you built it when you have the time. From what I have seen so far it certainly looks deserving of the trophies that you have won.  :ddb: :ddb: :ddb:

Cheers  :beer:

Don

CrewCab:

--- Quote from: Bernd on March 30, 2010, 09:27:42 AM ---Yes, a write up of how you did that with pictures would be nice.  
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and Me 3 ................. I'd enjoy reading a write up if you can get around to it Davo ...................... great work btw  :thumbup:

CC

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--- Quote --- At one show we were talking to some Canadians over here on holidays. They were very nice people, and said they had not heard the term "Ute" before.
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I've only heard of a ute from 3 sources, Neighbours, Home & away and Kevin Bloody Wilson. Although some of the uses differ!  :ddb:    :lol:



Nice looking machine Davo  :clap: 


If you post more pic's I'll happily look at them too....   :)





Ralph.

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