My 57 Thames 300e build

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

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

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

Got it home and started slowly to work on it .

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

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

Sam_Fear · Jan 10, 2012

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.

rainman · Jan 10, 2012

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

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

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

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

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rainman · Jan 10, 2012

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

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

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

Bane100e · Jan 10, 2012

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 .

Sam_Fear · Jan 10, 2012

Bane100e said:
There is a bloke in Colorado who is sitting on 37 of them and they are just there rotting

We all know that story on RRR!

Bane100e · Jan 11, 2012

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 .

fitzee · Jan 13, 2012

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

Bane100e · Feb 1, 2012

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 .

earthman · Feb 1, 2012

Going to be nifty. Where are you located?

jfg455 · Feb 1, 2012

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

Bane100e · Feb 2, 2012

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

Bane100e · Feb 3, 2012

now both sides [

My 57 Thames 300e build

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