Fordham Family

The Finished Bus

Posted on May 6, 2008 by thefordhams

Some pictures of the finished bus, this was on sale on Samba for 6 days before sold, lots of detailing and a beutiful Carolina spring day for the pictures to turn out nice

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We wanted to keep rust at bay and with the intention of driving it every day we chose to paint the entire underside in POR 15. This means we need a good surface to paint to, so after about 100 hours of scraping, washing, sanding etc we got to the finished state – should last a good while. Continue reading →

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Running Gear

Posted on January 6, 2007 by thefordhams

Anibal Chico www.steelbuggin.com built this 1776 long block with a new case, new heads, C25 cam for torque, with a deep sump and full flowed for oil filtering. We then added powder coated German doghouse tin, new Sachs clutch, powder coated intake manifold, and even tracked down a complete 38A (68-71 bus) generator – so we could run some extra music at some stage. Continue reading →

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Paint & Upholstery

Posted on November 6, 2006 by thefordhams

This is 1 day old coming out of the paint booth, inside painted, top painted, then the lower and finally as we see here 2 coats of clear ;

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Pre Paint – 2

Posted on May 6, 2006 by thefordhams

We thought long and hard about the final color combo – it was tempting to make it an all lotus white deluxe as she was originally but.. we settled for a titian red / grey combo. Continue reading →

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Our Second Son Douglas: Years 2-3

Posted on January 1, 2006 by thefordhams

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Our Son Archie: Years 4-5

Posted on January 1, 2006 by thefordhams

Castle A-D built with love by Grandad – we think Archie likes it…

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Ragtop

Posted on October 26, 2005 by thefordhams

Originally from Alabama this is an early 63 model year ragtop. Pearl white originally she now sports some funky primer. We bought this locally in Huntersville, NC from the guy who had rescued it from the salvage place – quite the journey..