PTP Brekkie/Pickin up da Thames

Hey Lads!! I just got home from the big road trip to pick up the
Thames.....it's pretty damn rough.....I'm not sure what direction I'm going to
go with it, but being as I hadn't planned on touching it for a
couple years, I have plenty of time to decide.
On the up side, most of the front sheet metal is decent....but the grille & shell is one peice (ie: the bars are not a seperate peice that attaches from the back), and the shell and bars have taken a hit at some point....but
both fenders are decent, as are the hood and the panels that go
below the hood. It's a bonus that there are actually two fenders,as
the pics I had seen prior to the trip only showed one
PLUS, the body was sitting on a rolling chassis, and again from
the pics I thought that the chassis was bare. the fact that I was
unable to tell might tell you how high the Rasberry bushes were that
were growing around it!
I just did the math, and I figure I have travelled about 1290 miles or 2076km since Friday AM, and haven't had more than three or four hours of sleep on any night....so I'm a bit knackerd.
It was good meeting you guys, and putting faces to the names, just sorry we didn't have more time to stick around & visit. We went out, got the Thames loaded, and were back in Tom's Lake at Stacy's before dark. Stacy didn't want to be still driving back through the Pine Pass in the dark)


James

cool James, it wuz good to see ya up in PTP territory, too bad ya didn,t have a little more time to carouse,

and don,t be a woosie, ive driven farther than that in one sitting ,between sleeps. hahaha

Lee: yah, I know, I'm a whiner
I still haven't beaten my trip back from vegas in '04 when I flew down, bought a car and drove it home.....left vegas on a sunday around 6:00PM, was in my own bed mon PM by 11:00......best sleep I've EVER had that night.....but next night was back to the ol' toss & turn!!
One day, we'll make it back to PTP country without being on a mission, and then we will be able to visit And make sure to look Stacy up if you get down his way, I'm thinking you two could be trouble!!

James

I was good to finally put a face to a name, James. Wish we had more time to talk metal bashing..... or better yet time to go garage touring.

Daryl: This weekend was the first time I have been through PG since 1988...so I gues I better not leave it ANOTHER 20 years!!
But I'm thinking you may get down this way more regularily than I get up there, so make sure to visit when you come to Edmonton!!
Anyways, I will be off to try & catch up on shuteye soon, as it's back to the grind in the AM

James

I was happy to meet you too, I went lookin for you outside after breaky and you were just pullin out, sorry I missed ya.

Well anyway it was a good time.

Kelly

ok--I give up--is it a pickup--1/2 or 1/4 ton panel--gotta have pictures too
as I do have a few 1/2 ton parts still and know where to get more

Hunter: Sorry, no pics yet (I don't have an account on photobucket, or any other hosting site). Thanks for the offer, but the answer is it's a 1/4Ton Delivery, so your 1/2ton stuff unfortunately wont fit.
But if you are looking to sell, I could post it over on the yahoo ANGLIA group, and I'm sure you will get some bites.
I took about 20 pics of the body/front sheetmetal/chassis, just no quick way to get them up. I did put several in my gallery on the metalmeet site, but it seems that not everyone can view that site without registering??

Thanks
James

Kelly: Sorry for running off, but we were on a Mission, and had told the folks we would be out there by 10:00AM. I'm sure you, Daryl and I could have spent hours just talking about metalshaping stuff
As I already told daryl, make sure to look me up next time your'e down this way. And BTW: The Quicktimes Fall Swap in Red Deer is in late Oct this year Sat Oct 25th/2008

James

Was that the one that was down by Hixion? Would have been good to have seen you as you was a going through...I know how it is with the time thing...Hope it was a good trip for ya....
..........Hugh........

Hugh: I figured you were a regular @ the PTP Brekkie, or I would have let you know we were coming!! Sorry we didn't see you there!
And yes, that is the Thames you took pics of last year, now in Alberta!!

BTW: Hugh, do you have any idea what the lil unit behind the Thames was?? I guessed American Bantam, but I sent pics to a fellow who knows them, and he says NO?? I'm out of guesses, I can't think of anything else that small??

James

I was over at the Metal Meet site and found your pics James, hope you dont mind me posting them.
Very cool little ride, I like it

Kelly

It was great to see you guys making it to breakfast, Oz.

Nice to see another british ford guy in the p.t.p even if it was brief. i'll stew for a while about that lil panel being in my own back yard and nobody tellin me! but you can't get them all. you give me a list of things you need and i'll see if i want to part with them(i'm a hoarder,sorry), or got a link to someone who has!

got_an_anglia:

I PM'd you a wish list

Thanks!
James

Oz: I dunno how many fellows there were at brekkie?? close to 30? ...anyway, can you help me out & tell me where you were sitting, so I can try & put a face to the handle?
I was sitting two people to the right of Daryl, where abouts were you?

James

her,s a pic of Oz, he wuz sittin two over to my right

Thanks Lee! that helps....so, if my memory serves me (and it doesn't always....that would have him seated to Kelly's right?...I guess it doesn't matter, I recall hearing an accent from over there...in adddition to the other Aussie that wes seated directly across from me!

James

I will repost the pictures I posted....I have not been at breaky for a while but will be back again at a little latter date....It is good that you were able to put a deal together on it...