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If anybody is going to restore this vehicle, they better have a deep pocketbook as what little I can see needs a lot of work to restore it!
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Hello Donovan,
You said it !!
But these are super rare, and when done are worth a whole lot, but takes a whole lot of money to get there.
If someone has the budget, these guys can take care of the rebuilding of the hull in house with their skilled craftsmen
to hand fabricate the missing parts.
https://lcars.com/gallery/gallery-album.php?AlbumId=122
Since they appear to have done a similar repair by fabricating a front clip, and restored an entire GPA .
Joe's Motor Pool also fabricates some important GPW sheet metal parts.
Best Regards,
Ray
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It looks like they have attempted to attach the front of an M38 at the firewall and produce a GPA-38. I agree it will require super-skill to remake the entire front tub from what the images show. What a great project though for the right man. Ray? this is right down your alley eh? You da man wif de skills I think!
Oz
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Oct 70 Land Rover Series 2a 25334079G NZ16GF36
http://gpw.castraponere.com/ (My Restoration Page)
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Been there, done that! It took me nine years and I had 95% of the original parts and employed a 64-year old fabricator-machinist-welder to help me with the body. He worked wonders! However, trying to find original parts was difficult and I searched around the world for them! Yes, you might be able to fabricate some but time consuming without the original part and might not look original as many parts were stamped steel.
Yes, you can buy steel panels from slopes but depending on the panel and where it is, you may need the original jig to hold the panel in the correct position so that when frame and body are mated things are located correctly. I believe slopes has recreated the original jig but I don’t think it is something that can be borrowed and shipped.
Again just time and money! You don’t want to put more money into a project than what it will be worth at the end!
My opinion,
Donovan.
Yes, you can buy steel panels from slopes but depending on the panel and where it is, you may need the original jig to hold the panel in the correct position so that when frame and body are mated things are located correctly. I believe slopes has recreated the original jig but I don’t think it is something that can be borrowed and shipped.
Again just time and money! You don’t want to put more money into a project than what it will be worth at the end!
My opinion,
Donovan.
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Hello Oz,17thAirborne wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 10:24 amIt looks like they have attempted to attach the front of an M38 at the firewall and produce a GPA-38. I agree it will require super-skill to remake the entire front tub from what the images show. What a great project though for the right man. Ray? this is right down your alley eh? You da man wif de skills I think!
I would be game !!
You know it !!
And I do have a couple GPA engines.
It would be great practice before I start on my 2 DUKWs !!
But like Donovan said, tons of money and time, and maybe find the front clip from a trimmed off GPA somewhere, like in Australia maybe, since there were a lot trimmed off there when converted to truck things.
But finding one would be very hard, but even finding an affordable GPA project these days seems like an impossible task.
I always wish I could have gotten a local one that sat for years a town away, but was literally sold a day before I went back to check if it might be for sale, after asking about it, and admiring it, for years, and years !!
$ 500 is what the selling price was.
Still had the blue drab USA numbers, and windshield on it, it was complete, but the hull bottom was rusted through.
It was then sold to a person in Texas, I think Mullins.
Best Regards,
Ray
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