Grizz's Redneck Express 1966 Chevy Short Fleetside RESTO-GO!

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

The Astro is not only beautiful, it can also work.
Great news about the convertible. Summer is coming.

Yes it works.

I use my car’s sympathetically

Getting the convertible sold is important.

I need the space.

[Grizz1963]

So.

Those bricks.

I fetched them in 3 and 1/2 trips.

Bringing about 190 or so at a time.

Uncle Peter is 86 and long since successfully retired from building houses.

But he spends at least four hours a day working on things. Either at the yard or at home. Currently he is working at repairing parts of one of the barns that had been damaged years ago by a machine hitting the corner of a wall. Also repointing the cement between the bricks. The wall spans two eras. Part is built using lime mortar and parts were done with cement mortar.

I love watching him work. The details in those bits of cement he is replacing. Vertical and horizontal are different.





I had to figure out where to store these bricks. Ultimately I decided outside Georges door made sense.
Even sense checking the way the gate opens so I could still get cars and diggers and a crusher and possibly a few other machines through there.
I moved a pile of 450mm paving stones to the kitchen door as well.
Hoarder central.



Wood store with two cement mixers.



So off to UncleBobs yard.

First load in the van.

And first and second loads unloaded at home.
Onto a plastic pallet. Mistake. Too late.
Thankfully I bought three pallet or pump trucks for either £5.00 or £15.00 each years ago. Gave two away and kept one.

What a multi purpose tool this is to have in the garage and on site.







Last load was smaller but included 23 dark clay bricks.





And finally all of the bricks packed and sorted.

I took 2/3 and 1/2 bricks as well.

Total is about 623 bricks (23 clays weigh more)

Approximately 1.7 ton at 2.7 kg per brick.






So the question of course is WHY?

Well, the BBQ that I built 13 years ago and abused over the years, including a massive fire in it mid winter a few years ago has left it significantly damaged.

So it’s time to destroy it and start a rebuild.

Biggest problem is actually that it needs to dovetail into a bigger job that I have wanted to get done for 14 years.

What we have right now.







As always, the invitation is open to anyone interested in helping me get it done.

I could break it down and save the rubble before the next big job, but I am waiting for a price on some 3mm mild steel plate.

I want to build a steel BBQ inner to then sheath in insulation and brickwork.

Something like this.



So there you go.

Massive update.

And invitation.

Peugeot 206 CC next.

[Grizz1963]

Here is a complete build thread of this BBQ


https://retrorides.proboards.com/thr...ld-kent?page=1


Click the link for flashbacks.

[Grizz1963]

Six Bells Pub in Cliffe near Rochester, Kent has a Classic car and Bike Event, Meeting, Gathering once a month.

During summer it gets really busy with hundreds of people attending from 4.00pm onwards.

I have been there before in the S10 but yesterday I took the Astro van again.
Going via the best road, still a terrible surface as low cal council continues to fail on even the most basic level, to maintain roads, it is about 10 miles or 16km

So I got there early and left quite early as well, with loads of cars and bikes passing me on my way home by 7.00pm after being there 3 hours.

I made up a short clip of cars attending and a few arriving.



My buddy Ricky is a regular in his own built beauty.



And of course the Six Bells pub on the corner.

I had a £5.00 hamburger with cheese, onion and a really nice BBQ sauce. And it was absolutely delicious and worth the money.




VIDEO

https://youtu.be/Tu9fuJCx8dI?si=OeET7K52klpub3y7


I will certainly attend again in May, when the next meeting is, if I remember on the day.

Insomnia sucks.

[Braunschweiger]

A nice video with great cars, the Mini with Honda power is really weird, I've seen a few from Great Britain, a Smart with a Suzuki Hayabusa engine is a real weapon, it's great that you're allowed to build something like that,
here in Germany the authorities don't have a sense of humor for it, sigh!
The burger looks decent, not a cheap version.

[Grizz1963]

Originally Posted by Braunschweiger

A nice video with great cars, the Mini with Honda power is really weird, I've seen a few from Great Britain, a Smart with a Suzuki Hayabusa engine is a real weapon, it's great that you're allowed to build something like that,
here in Germany the authorities don't have a sense of humor for it, sigh!
The burger looks decent, not a cheap version.

Thank you.

Burger was very good.






I thought you bought another Canta and transported it in the GMC ;-)


Ahhhhh

You have no idea how close to the truth you are.

In the back of the van.

Needs cleaning.








And yes, soon I will have a fleet of them if I can find some more in different designs.


They do exist, some more unusual and rare than others.

Taxi ?

[Grizz1963]

Mate Kevin retires fully on 9th May.

That means nothing.

He has a ton of things to do.

Last week he came to replace the front brakes on his runaround. You may remember he has a black T6 camper and helped me fetch the hateful 206 CC.

Kevin is extremely methodical.
First person I ever saw who actually reads the instructions. But that is how he does stuff. Having worked for railway support companies all his life.

Order.




Since I moved into this house in 2010 the rear driveway concrete strips have bugged me.
So Kevin suggested we tear them up and move the drive over by 18 inches or 450mm at its apex.
I also decided that after 13 years it was time to tear down and rebuild the BBQ.

I will need help.

I will need help

I will need help.

Did I say that clearly enough?

Keep reading and you may decide you can.

Along with copious amounts of strong tea with little milk, Kevin fixed the brakes.

Then we measured and marked out the potential new driveway.

And NO, I don’t want to remove the shrubbery on the left against the boundary hedge.

There will still be a curve, but it will be a solid slab rather than two strips to balance along, reversing down the drive.

So we started measuring out the job

19 meters and about 2.6 wide equals about 5.5 cubic meters of concrete cast.

Checking the depth of the existing concrete test hole.



Lay out.



So the resulting projected outcome will look like this.

I want to add an Arris rail three bar fence to the side of the small shrub bed to keep the shrubs contained. The plan is to use some large Metposts to hold the uprights.



And if the grass regrows on the gap, this may be the look.

I had wondered about putting a green colour into the concrete but have decided against it.



And it’s still a no, no green cement.






The plan is to plan and Kevin is project manager.

I want to hire a mobile crusher to create all the hardcore for the foundation from the BBQ and concrete strips rather than buying in loads of the same stuff and paying for a dumpster/skip to remove all the spoil.
I need to hire in a Mini Digger and then I NEED HELP I NEED HELP I NEED HELP I NEED HELP I need a capable operator for a day to dig, scrape, create the new foundation space and also move any topsoil into a specific place in the garden.
Steel reinforcing to be added.


I plan on getting the new concrete mixed on site, out on the street, by a dry mix rig and then running it through to the rear and casting the new slabs.

My nearby neighbor has a1972 model Winget dumper truck that he will let me use to run the concrete through from the street to the rear.

This should be interesting.





So……..

Needing a digger driver.

Some time soon.

[Grizz1963]

Forgot to mention

https://youtu.be/aQSBAjznt58?si=eMBtjXS7XQPE1wJ-