My 57 Thames 300e build

Here is my 1957 English Ford Thames 300e van build so far .

How it looked when I first laid eyes on it







Then I got it moved to my friends till I could trailer it home .



had to break some small trees to get it out

Got it home and started slowly to work on it .

started gathering up the parts and was also working on a friends 300e as well



Started repairing the sides where some idiot had slashed windows out in the past

I'm impressed you find those things! There can't be that many in the US?

You shoulda left the chunk of tree, that's a status symbol for rat rodders.

Ever thought of making a Panel out of it??
Either way, it's a cool little truck, car????

and Gabes 300e was getting work as well





My frontend had been scrunched up some time in the past so off with old ond on with the repair pieces

Guess I should have waited for all the pics to load!!!
ha ha ha ha
I like it!!

And that is where were at at the moment . I'll post more when I get some more done

Sam there are a lot . Sadly 8 were crushed recently as I could not collect them fast enough and the Unsers were cleaning out a property for a Children's museum I saved 8 before the deadline . There is a bloke in Colorado who is sitting on 37 of them and they are just there rotting

Rainman The 300e model is a panel but some dipstick cut those windows out in the past . It was a real pain to fix it as he cut down through the molding profile in the body line and that was the hard part to fix . Once the lead work is done it'll look a treat . Still have a lot of work . next I'll cut the firewall and tranny tunnel out and modify the crossmember . I need to round up a rear sump oil pan before I can properly fab in the motor .

Bane100e said:

There is a bloke in Colorado who is sitting on 37 of them and they are just there rotting

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We all know that story on RRR!

Got the 105e rear end in . I rebuilt it with a LSD kit . And got the tank in as well . Now I can measure for the coil overs and watts linkage . and now you can see why I relocated the gas filler .

always loved these cars. like what I see so far..keep up the good work..

Been working a lot of hours so not much has been done lately but I'm almost done on the rear roll pan . I started fabbing in the tail lights . It will get small arrow shaped turn indicator light fabbed in where the stock tail lights used to be mounted .

Going to be nifty. Where are you located?

All that work on the front frame and I would have straight axled it like a gasser! looks good though. [P

Earthman I'm in New Mexico .

jfg455 , I have new plans lol as with all my builds I change my mind several times while building the car I've decided to use a drop tube axle :-D

now both sides [