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This one is gonna be a bit of an odd one with a mountain of photos and a little bit of text. Haven't found the time to write up these blogs recently and as a result there's a bit of a backlog; so as the title suggests, this one's a catch-up! Now that most of the cab was off already, we decided to just rip off the rest to make our lives easier cleaning and repairing that which needed it (99% of the cab parts). Now it was off, the next step was to start sorting the bulkhead out

Right.... here we go again! This one's probably going to be a bit of a photo dump as I'm writing it whilst still in recovery from Temple at War '26. The day started off well, with a visit from Mark & Mike of The Shack Rats. We decided to test the PTO/ winch now that there was no cable to get tangled around itself and just as a tester before we eventually remove it. Only 2 issues occurred during this, at first, an assorted wire decided to wrap itself around the winch drivesha

Now that the jimmy is home, work must begin! We decided to start by ripping out all of the many many unnecessary electrics from underneath the dash/ inside the engine bay. This plan very quickly crumbled as we realised just how awkward it was to position yourself to where you could actually see under the dash without being poked or prodded by any of the many levers or getting a jumper caught on a jagged edge. Naturally, the next step was to rip the entire cab apart... Step on

WOW, where to start.... The truck is home! So much has begun to happen, and more and more seems to just keep cropping up! To begin with, as mentioned previously Reuben very kindly put the body onto the truck for transport for us. The truck body being lifted into place, it had been stored apart from the truck, as it is not it's original cargo body. The truck body in place, awaiting the proper fixings/bolts, later installed by Reuben and his father. More on this cargo body late

Monsieur was brought to the attention of a gentleman called Reuben. Located in a "basement" on a French farm near the Italian border; the Farmer had used the Jimmy for his logging business after it's conversion to a Perkins diesel (P6) in the 50's. Reuben had always loved the idea of recovering a vehicle from a barn, and with his interest in WW2, this was too good an opportunity to pass on. Reuben began discussions with the farmers family in 2019. After some back and forth, t