Diecast Restoration Dinky Toys Bedford TK Coca-Cola Truck no/402 1966/69

[@gordonwebster3809]

the guys who made these castings were masters of there trade

[@martindaredare]

Yes Gordon thay certainly were, but unfortunately back then a lit of the details were covered up by the thick paint witch was a shame . All the best Martin 👍

[@mickmanly1479]

Well done❤

[@martindaredare]

Cheers mick appreciated my friend 👍

[@janwillemhoepman7539]

Those pigeons just came by to admire your work. Nice job!

[@martindaredare]

🤣🤣 yes thay are a pain when your detail painting, but we are lucky we have a lot of wildlife in the garden . All the best Martin

[@MetalMania3DTV-TAS-AUS]

Watching now, Had a TK Bedford which had our cattle crate on it, Sweet Resto Martin👊 Turned out brilliant 😊👊🍻🍺🇦🇺🤝🇬🇧😎👍✌

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Kc ,this was a fun one to do ,yes a good old work hoarse the tk .all the best Martin 👌

[@jesterger]

Super nice job on that, Martin. Beautiful.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend

[@billforrest4205]

Very nice 👍

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Bill ,much appreciated my friend

[@Adriansmith805]

Beautiful restoration Martin looks amazing well done 👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much Adrian it's really appreciated my friend 👍

[@gregorymoy7165]

Things go better with Coca-Cola .... and Toys look better when Martin Dares ... excellent video Martin well done thank you 😃👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks for the kind words my friend its really appreciated my friend

[@opasdiecastrestorations8611]

Nice and clean

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend its really appreciated 👍

[@diecastflashback]

Great job Martin, nice detailing ✌️😎

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Don much appreciated brother

[@deanaustin996]

Another amazing restoration looks well nice

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much Dean, it's really appreciated my friend

[@ralphcooling7583]

Very nice job on this one Martin the colour look great on my TV . Im glad you painted the interior just did not look right in blue and a good idea with the grill not painting it white. Ive got 2 coal trucks versions but it's going to be a while before I get round to do it. All the best Martin 👍 Ralph

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Ralph, ges I have done the coal one and the duscart one I have the castrol box van next . All the best Martin and

[@stephenhenion8304]

That's the "Real Thing" as they used to say in the Commercials. Great video Martin 👍👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Stephen, yep a coke and a smile ,all the best Martin

[@emmascorner21]

Awesome! Thanks for sharing with us! New friend with full support👍🔔❤ Have a great day!

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend its really appreciated 👍

[@emmascorner21]

@@martindaredare Thank you too! 🙂

[@steaminglion4067]

Nice details the Bedford Badge on the front of the lorry 👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much ,the dinys ones are a lot easier then the corgi ones to do . All the best Martin 👍

[@paulwilson2118]

Brilliant Martin another great resto looks good.. thank you for video.. Paul ☘☘

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Paul and thanks for your support my friend

[@mikeking2539]

Another nice restoration....

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Mike 🍻 all the best Martin 👍

[@jeffbaker2897]

As always Martin a cracker jack job👍, love those Cokeacola trucks,take care my friend, looking forward to your next restro.👋🤓🚙🚒🚚🚛

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Jeff ,it was a fun one to do , All the best Martin 👍

[@stuartgilbert61]

Excellent job Martin. Great paint finish. Stop fiddling with your decals though🤣

[@martindaredare]

🤣🤣 sometimes you can't help yourself trying to get the right . Enjoy your Sunday my friend

[@ianb6415]

Nice one Martin this is the "REAL THING". Best wishes from Ian b & family.

[@martindaredare]

🤣🤣 yep a coke and a smile 😃 Enjoy your Easter all of you

[@jimmyjames6267]

Done & Dusted! Have a Coke & a Smile!

[@martindaredare]

Nice one Jimmy thanks very much my friend

[@BulletNoseBetty]

Great job! One could say that you've left us THIRST-ing for more.

[@martindaredare]

🤣🤣 cheers my friend 👍

[@ramblers69]

Great job Martin, the Bedford Coke truck looks amazing, 😎👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Tom ,and thanks for the continued support my friend

[@septiccalling8341]

That's come out really smart, Martin. Really like that one 👏🏻👌🏻👍🏻

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend iam glad you liked it 👍

[@carlgauntletttrains3026]

Hi Martin, absolutely brilliant job. All the best. Carl.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Carl it's really appreciated my friend

[@anthonyobersteller1556]

Nice job on the BedfordTK Coca Cola Lorry better than the Dinky factory finish.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Anthony it means a lot my friend

[@SamuelAdkins-j1h]

You did a great job restoring the coke truck.

[@martindaredare]

Cheers, it's really appreciated, my friend, and all the best, Martin

[@glynstimpson]

Hello Martin very nice restoration looks new great paint work.hope you and your family are keeping well regards Glyn

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Glyn and thanks for your continued support my friend its really appreciated 👍

[@anthonywallace8534]

Hi Martin another fantastic job as always love your channel I watch them when having breakfast keep them coming 😊

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Anthony it's really appreciated my friend, and thanks for your support

[@lostonwallace1396]

Looks like the scratch on the windscreen disappeared nicely. Turned out looking sharp, man!

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend its really appreciated

[@matchboxmark8191]

Splendid job kind sir! Love the added touches you did!

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Mark it's really appreciated my friend 👍

[@gravesendaustralia]

Nice tip on the bottle tops. Cheers Michael

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Michael, yep at least one of my ideas worked. All the best Martin

[@geoffmower8729]

Hi Martin it turned out fantastic the attention to detail makes all the difference. The silver grill look's much better. Did you salvage the tyres or replace them they look like new. What a great idea doing the top of the bottles I would never of thought of that. Back in the early 80s I was on social security- or the dole and they made me get my class two licence witch is to drive a tray or box truck. I was sent to a truck drivers place to be his offsider loading drink bottles on and off the back of the truck. We were driving down a bumpy road and suddenly there were five bangs or loud pops. A crate of drink bottles came off and exploded one by one on the road. It sounded like a gun going off.💣💣I only lasted about a week there was something I was allergic to now what was it🤔🤔 Oh yeh HARD WORK. See you on the next one mate watch out for those pigeons some of then are good shots.😂😂🤣🤣

[@martindaredare]

The tryes some I changed the back ones I turned around ,saving the penny's 🤣, there just some jobs that are rubbish, I rember getting sacked from a job,I was given a verbal warning in the morning a written warning in the afternoon and sacked at the end of the day ,a bloody hat trick 🤣🤣🤣

[@alanwbelcher]

Great job, or should I say cracking good. I especially like the grill, looks much more realistic than stock.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Alan ,yes the front looks a lot better, not so much white ,thanks for watching my friend its really appreciated 👍

[@jg24diecast41]

Per your usual, another beautiful restoration job! Love your attention to details.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend its really appreciated 👍

[@brucejordan3339]

Great job as usual Martin keep the beddies coming.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Bruce ,I do have a couple more Bedfordshire to do ,so watch this space 😀 👍

[@BelgianDiecastRestorations]

Beautiful restoration, Martin!

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much ĵmy friend

[@briansdiecastthailandstoth6747]

Great work Martin....like them bottle tops...

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Brian, much appreciated my friend 👍

[@MapleLeafCustoms]

Being a life long collector of all things Coca Cola, I enjoyed this episode, Martin. I like how you did the bottle caps. Good call on going chrome on the grill and badge. Fine looking results. I'm catching up on your videos... 🍁☕👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Andrew ,it's definitely a nice casting and it displays well . All the best Martin 👍

[@stephenwhite5057]

A cracking job Martin. It brought back memories of the smelly cab delivering Corona as a Saturday job while still at school. They used ( i think) the same truck but different livery. Fantastic.

[@martindaredare]

Yes I remember those days of the pop man coming around ,and taking back the empty ones cream sodo was my favourite. All the best Martin

[@IncredibleGears]

The model is like new, very cool!

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend its really appreciated 👍

[@PaulRestorer]

great job as usual Martin. great idea with applying paint to the bottle caps. I wish you a healthy and peaceful Easter

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Paul glad you liked it . Enjoy your weekend my friend

[@thescalemodelcarguychannel8681]

I absolutely love it Martin great restoration brother ❤

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Shawn, I appreciate you stopping by my friend

[@chrisparkinson1351]

Great work Martin. I like the TK's good solid model. Next could be the Castrol box truck, the breakdown tow truck, a tipper and the coal delivery tray back. They would make a nice mini collection. All the best my friend, again top shelf work. Cheers Chris 👍🏻🎯🎯🍻🇦🇺

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Chris, yes I have the castrol truck in my stach to dig out . I have done the bin lorry and the coal truck as well as the breakdown truck ,the videos are there pop. And have a look

[@chrisparkinson1351]

@@martindaredare Will definitely check them out 🤓

[@crapaudnicksdiecastrenovat1739]

Beautiful shiny paint on this one Martin, you made a vast improvement to the detailing on the cab compared to the original model, yours looks much more realistic, another fabulous restoration, I love it, especially that it’s a Bedford TK 👌👍😊 All the best, Nick🐸🐸🐸

[@martindaredare]

Cheers nick,I did put mirrors on but I kept knocking them off I will have to find a better way of securing them on the next one .. The castrol tk box truck is on list to do ,when I have worked out a way of making new roller doors , All the best Martin 👍

[@crapaudnicksdiecastrenovat1739]

@@martindaredare I’ve got the Castro one to do too, also minus its roller doors🤦🏻‍♂🤔

[@lotharrenz4621]

looks great again, nicely colourful. ^^ I'm surprised all tyres still held up, looking as hardened as some did. Interestign method of painting the bottle caps; I saw it with restorers of those old Tonka toy trucks. :) one of the tricks that make you wonder why no one else had the idea before, it comes so natural and logical. also, the caps seem to have a tiny logo on them now, too. :) as styled and designed as old english trucks tend to look like, the Bedfords and later the Leylands always seem to bear a concerned if not grumpy face...

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Lothar, the tryes wernt to bad 2 back ones I did turn round and after a short while in warm Warter then a oil bath there came up alright . Yes I must have seen the same video a while back now the guy doing the tonka truck wheels . Thanks very much my friend All the best to you

[@marksinthehouse1968]

Making me thirsty ,you can beat a cola in a glass bottle ice cold ,takes me back to the mid seventies Saturday evening in the beer garden in the green man near Hatton Cross London airport ,ice cokd coke and a packet of KP crisps yes they use to be full unlike now so full they could fall out ,our family including nan and grandad in his white cortina would meet up with a family friend I would be playing in the garden while everyone got quietly smashed well not grand he was driving ,vc10,707s,tridents etc coming into land warm evening remember 75 was a warm summer then 76 phew ,great times mate and a great resto of a Bedford with their distinctive air brake sound we had them when I first joined THE post office , All the best my friend Mark

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Mark, yes those were the days my friend 😀, care free days . Cream sodo was my favourite.

[@frasermartin6728]

Cool trick on the bottle tops - clever, that! Gemini has a Coke bottle kit with two crates and loads of bottles that can be built up - it is expensive, but very convincing. I have a picture reference if you want me to send it. Lovely finish on the truck: so much easier to detail than the Corgi one I just finished, and your paint split on the cab is much more realistic! Great job again, Martin.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Fraser it's one of those occasions we're an idea actually worked, thanks again for the pictures. Enjoy your day my friend

[@davidwelch6796]

Very smart job. The reason that the paint looks a little bit lighter on video than it does in real life is the black background in your lighting booth. The camera tries to average everything out to a general grey but because there is so much black in the picture it opens the lens aperture to allow a bit more light through, hence the lighter red. If you want to fix this you could change the black background to grey. On the other hand you could leave it is as the end result still looks very good to me.

[@martindaredare]

Hi David ,thanks very much for the very useful tip ,I will try it ,I have already done the videos for this month, so it will be next month. Thanks again

[@davidyeates526]

Excellent job Martin as normal 👍 and what a great way to do the bottle tops. I will need to remember this for next time I do some bottles in crate’s All the best David

[@martindaredare]

Thanks David, I will be doing the same to the spot on milk float you sent me ,now I know it works . All the best Martin 👍

[@hellboy1959]

very nice Martin , red and white always a winning colour combination clever move with the bottle tops too i'd love to get a flatbed version to do one day really enjoyed the video 👍👍

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Neil, iam glad you liked it my friend 👍

[@peterhoughton1589]

Oh wow Martin you've done a brilliant job on this TK Bedford, it looks fantastic. Again your detailing really makes it stand out, especially on the Coke bottle tops. I love Bedford's, we used to have a TK tipper for bringing lime from Caister, and we always ran Bedford vans for taking mushrooms to Liverpool Wholesale Market. Looking forward to next week's video. Take care, all the best. Peter.

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Peter, yes the old Bedford was a popular work horse back then . Glad you liked it ,all the best Martin.

[@ianhow100]

Nice revival Martin. Again, your fine dtail work is amazing. Like the hubs on that one. Not sure if I could get 17mm tyres on there. Would look great on the Matchbox K7dustcart

[@martindaredare]

It might be a stretch Ian, but you could use the same hubs and tryes of the tk might beed to change the axckea though.

[@LaziLowcollectables]

Beautiful job Martin, planning to restore this myself but I haven't got the cola bottles yet. Nice job Martin

[@martindaredare]

Cheers laz ,it's a good one to do

[@alanculbert5146]

Hello Martin, that is lovely! The cab looks stunning. Watching you do that decal, it reminded me of me when I'm doing them. I keep making tiny little adjustments with a cotton bud, then a cocktail stick, then a cotton bud again, then it moves slightly, and you think , " I should have left it where it was". It's a real delicate operation isn't it? Love watching your videos as usual, all the best to you and your family mate. Take care.

[@ianhow100]

Similar problem I have with decals. They move where & when you don't want them to. Fo for the final precision adjustment & they either rip, crack or go nowhere

[@martindaredare]

Yes exactly right ,the buggers move when you don't want the. 2 very frustrating some times All the best Martin

[@terrybeechener5992]

Well done,Martin.I've been waiting for you to do a TK Bedford.This is one i don't have,yet.I have the tipper,coal truck and refuse lorry,of which one has a flatbed!Yes,it's a code 3 and has beer barrels on it,painted in Whitbread colours.More like this,please.

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Terry, that flat bed sounds nice ,something I will try myself in the future. Enjoy your Sunday my friend

[@Xxxxxx.5303]

🤗👍👏👏👏

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much

[@connect4glyn]

What a beautiful job Martin and I love what you did to do those bottle tops , clever . I do not own one model of this lorry .

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Glyn, yes the coke bottle tops turned ot OK I was pleased with them . All the best Martin 👍

[@neilmc4478]

could have sprayed the coke bottles red then done the tops would have look better but a great model plus vidio

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much my friend, yes that would have even an idea to do . Maybe next time thanks for your input my friend its really appreciated

[@robwhitfield6936]

Another great job. The badge is a Phoenix holding a flag with the letter 'B' for BEDFORD or 'V' if it's a VAUXHALL. Hope this is of any use to you? Keep the videos coming.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much for the information, it's all very useful 👍 All the best Martin

[@andysgaragediecastrestorations]

Lovely job. I liked the bottle top trick. Was that a Meccano screw you used? Good choice on the paint.👍

[@martindaredare]

Cheers Andy, no a 2ba screw and washer,I use them when the posts are thin .all the best Martin 👌

[@reddave8628]

I love the videos but I must admit I can't watch you putting the decals on as I end up shouting at the telly to leave the fookin thing alone once it's on 😂😂

[@martindaredare]

Apologies Dave ,but its a bit of o c d trying to get them spot on . Great comment my friend and all the best Martin 👍

[@kimlidster891]

😊

[@martindaredare]

Cheers kim

[@mikeking2539]

I think it's a Griffin/Griffon design on the badge! Was the chassis also used for the 'dustbin lorry'?

[@martindaredare]

Thanks Mike, I will have to check the chassis to see if it's the same ,all the best Martin 👌

[@connect4glyn]

Right , let's have a look at this one then . Don't think much of that spring thing .

[@martindaredare]

The spring punch really isn't that bad to be honest it was worth trying for the price of it .

[@robmarshall956]

Hi Martin, hope you have been keeping well, great restoration once again, I’m wondering if you can give me some direction, I have a VINTAGE DINKY TOYS 450 BEDFORD TK CASTROL OIL VAN and am missing the rear roller door do you know any supplier over there 👉 who supplies this item ? I’m in Australia 🇦🇺 of course but can’t seem to track one down, any advice would be appreciated 🙏 ISSUED 1965-70

[@martindaredare]

Hi Rob funny you should mention that truck ,I also have the same truck both my doors are there but badly damaged, I was considering making my own with thin plastic card cutting lines across deep enough to allow it to flex ,the only suppler that might do the doors is model supplys. Com. All the best Martin

[@robmarshall956]

@@martindaredare thankyou for your reply Martin I will have a investigation and let you know if I have any success, unfortunately I am not as gifted as yourself in restoration, you truly do a marvellous job 🙏

[@martindaredare]

It's worth trying Rob iam sure you can do it my friend

[@robmarshall956]

@@martindaredare I will give it a go should matters get extremely dire ))

[@longdt5226]

A cracking job Martin. It brought back memories of the smelly cab delivering Corona as a Saturday job while still at school. They used ( i think) the same truck but different livery. Fantastic.

[@martindaredare]

Thanks very much iam glad it brought back a good memory. All the best Martin 👍