It’s hard to believe but my son Tommy turned 7 this weekend! So on Saturday we spent the day doing birthday things and then headed back out to the garage on Sunday. My plans are to take the cab back off over the Thanksgiving weekend so that can finish the sheet metal work on it. If you remember from one of my earlier posts, I repaired the original rear panel. It still needed a ton of work and while I was at the first spring fling I was able to buy an original replacement from Peter. This panel has the correct ‘X’ broke in it which is what I wanted… This was bare metal and covered with light surface rust so I figured I would take advantage of the nice weather and DA it…
Here is what I started with… The panel is in nice shape with minimal shelf wear…

It even had the factory part number on it, 517568. So I dug out my Brockway/Mack Cross Part Number Reference book and was able to find it on page 129… The list price was $45.46 and the net price was $29.54!

So I started with 80 grit on the DA…

The one corner was tweaked a little and when my buddy Mike stopped over I had him straighten it out…

And within an hour this is what I wound up with…

More to follow…