Transforming a School Bus into a Vintage Ice Cream Truck (Episode 3)

We continue the body work on the 58 Ford by shortening the front end to fit onto the Chevrolet Chassis
cool-guy green handle pliers:
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Scale video:
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Vevor Jack:
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Music:
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Lonesome Avenue - The 126ers
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[@robertjohnson7728]

This man's fabrication skills is as good as I've ever seen. Any top car customising car company would be privileged to have him work for them. What a awesome job. Looks great.

[@o2boutdoors]

Huge respect for your ability to understand where and how to cut/fill and have it look great afterwards!

[@Dancing_Alone_wRentals]

Put me down for the Huge Respect column too. It was amazing to see how you sorted out those hood bumps in the road along the way.

[@jesscneal]

Excellent episode. Those fenders and hood came out way better than I thought they would. Still very proportional. Nice work 👍

[@prezbrown2445]

😢😮

[@nitewatch2.027]

Resembles the front clip of an English ford transit van from the 70’s. Awesome build

[@deanadrian638]

Fine bit of fabricating. Proportioned up great. Shame to see the 37 gone to the crusher.. check out cold war motors. He just fixed up a 37 Chevy flat head. I had a flat head straight 8 in my 51 Pontiac. Smooth engine. Good luck.

[@AustinCoulson]

I'm a sucker for flatheads. They just seem to run forever. Maybe it's the low compression

[@alk3myst]

Great work with that front clip.

[@st170ish]

Love the unit of measurement... Whooooooop this over there

[@cjhill726]

Such a cool build. Makes me want to get started on getting my 60 f250 4x4 back on the road.

[@dukemm9487]

Crazy skills of this guy😮

[@jesusluna6049]

Awesome metal work

[@DeathTollRacing]

I think that looks great and is going to look even better with the big box on the back because it's going to really compliment the snubnose.

[@levidbateman5174]

Love the shortening, a snub nosed Ford, looks amazing!! The dually rear and extra frame does add up and yes the tucked engine from the Express Cab…

[@scott2183]

Really good information in this episode. I like how you figured out the fenders for the new design

[@melloyello89]

I really like the look, and the work and process all makes sense. I still can't help but wonder about all the work on fitting the cab and fenders to the bus firewall, but it's hard to argue with the results

[@deanadrian638]

Adventures made from scratch gets a whole load of 50s 60s 70s farm trucks complete. He sell you anything. But cool looking trucks he chops up.

[@adythescumbag]

He's an artist, an absolute bloody artist.

[@SchneiderClassics]

THIS IS A REALLY COOL BUILD MATE

[@asbjrnkvisle5831]

This is one BIG project. Impressive work!

[@billyhaddock5540]

Austin, watching a Engineer work his magic on the body work is cool. this should be a cool Ice Cream Truck..

[@rhiantaylor3446]

Inspirational...

[@senorspiegel]

Man those cuts worked out great! Some accurate measuring and knowledge of how curves work! Good job!

[@divadyrdnal]

Master class In sectioning body sheet metal…

[@danielmorgan190]

I've taken power seats like that out of junkyard before by just jumping the wires to my drill battery--not exactly 12v, but it works for a quick move.

[@AustinCoulson]

Thats a good idea, I might steal that sometime. Thx

[@josearleicristoroza689]

Nunca vi nada igual em mudanças de carrocerias, serviços bem feitos. Otimo proficional.

[@JoeB-pv8su]

Great job on fenders and hood! Looks great!!

[@VinyB57]

Such a nice project dude! 👍I know..I'm a bit late to the party...😅

[@dandaman83]

Damn that looks amazing, your fabrication skills are better then ever. I think youre ready for a SEMA build after this one!

[@marciocosta2102]

Parabéns, fiquei impressionado com a qualidade da construção do projeto. Brasil, Campo Grande MS

[@josephlarkin131]

Amazing work and skill truck looks very sharp!! Great content

[@nordyfamily]

Dude, you have wicked skills. Happy I found your channel. Keep up the hard work!

[@diecastmodelhub]

Freaking Amazing!!

[@gheice_modelism]

I am liking our channel more and more. Please keep doing videos.

[@martinmicheal4595]

Bro I could watch a lot of your work your really good at what you do subbed and liked and commented

[@KevinHart87]

Nice work!

[@lucsurmon2623]

👍👍

[@hollandduck79]

hello from the Netherlands . thanks for the video . Sincerely Hollandduck

[@jameslewry2950]

G,day cobber, very interesting project, looking forward to the next posting. Hooroo mate.

[@deanadrian638]

I think a oldish fire engine with a container on the back would bring in the customers. I converted a winabago Brave into a snowball outfit. Painted it all in Mardi gras colours we could carry 60 10lbs blocks of ice.. believe me when you shaved up 60 blocks in one day you a happy man to see them gone. Lol. But good fun doing the festivals in the south.. you got to build a fire engine one. Big red container. Lol. The Hot one 🔥

[@DeathTollRacing]

the green handled pliers you used on the front of the fender look sweet. Do you have a link?

[@AustinCoulson]

amzn.to/3IPRxeb

[@michael-michaelmotorcycle]

Well done sectioning, shortening, stretching and sweetening those fenders. What are those green handled pliers you use when you get to bending the corner? Those look handy.

[@AustinCoulson]

amzn.to/3IPRxeb I love these things

[@michael-michaelmotorcycle]

Thanks. Just added to my Amazon cart. All of your tips and tricks are awesome, thanks for documenting it.

[@albatrozzz]

Ништяк! (интересно как переведёт?!)

[@aaronnelson7702]

Giant Samford and son truck at first.

[@avenger1888]

You're doing a good job at combining the two vehicles. I'm just wondering why didnt you just build a custom frame for the old for truck or maybe modify the truck's current frame so you could have transferred the mechanical parts from the donor vehicle to the new or rebuilt frame / chassis.

[@weshipitjamaica4354]

Excellent episode Dr. Surgeon Coulson. Which pick and pull do you go to?

[@AustinCoulson]

That was pull and save out in Mead, WA

[@_autoverse]

The nose surgery was so successful that it’ll take familiarity with the design of the truck to realise it’s been changed.

[@tomklar14]

Your work is impeccable. I am a long time cabinetmaker with some metal expirence along time ago.. but you have inspired me to try my hand at metal on my own.. would it be too much to ask for list of tools you use to do this work? And who sells these items .. like brake. , bead roller, shrinker, stetcher ect?

[@AustinCoulson]

Here is a link to the combination shear and my Amazon store that has a lot of the smaller tools, although I don't update it often enough. The shrinker/stretcher I got from Eastwood. email me if there's a specific tool you see my use that you are trying to track down [e-mail] www.baileigh.com/shear-brake-roll-sbr-5216 www.amazon.com/shop/austincoulson

[@kevinleee3408]

Holey moley

[@gravedigger8]

you should make another scale so you dont have the extra steps of blocking under the wheel

[@AustinCoulson]

I would need to make 3 more scales to weigh a vehicle all at once and I haven't been able to justify that yet

[@gravedigger8]

@@AustinCoulson but if you make 1 more you can do it an axel at a timei nstead of a tire at a time

[@AustinCoulson]

@@gravedigger8 thats true I didn't think about that. Would cut the time in half

[@lostintime8651]

Hey Austin, I have a dilemma perhaps you can help me with. I have a Ford E350 box truck. I assume it's a van that had a box professionally put on it. The issue is I need a gas tank. But a replacement one is over $1,000. I can't find one locally but even if I did it probably suffer the same rust situation. Even a used one from an area that doesn't get salt on the roads is very costly plus shipping. Do you have any thoughts on how I can find another tank that I can retrofit? The tank is the one that is behind the axle. There's plenty of room there and I can cut the box and floor to accommodate a different tank. Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Thank you.

[@lostintime8651]

It's a 2003

[@AustinCoulson]

wow a 2003 with rust issues, thats a bummer. Have you tried your local scrap yard? Those vans seem to end up there a lot and a fuel tank is not a common item to see missing on them

[@rfcmironchuck8628]

No critism here but, your overlaped 5inch strip, shouldnt be protected, i see so many youtubers welding stuff without putting any weld trought primer or some sort. Btw i love your stuff , im just asking..

[@AustinCoulson]

In the last episode I used weld through primer on the inner A pillars because it was a larger area. I don't use WTP on a small piece like this because it only has a 1/2" overlap and the WTP seems to burn farther than that while welding making it kinda useless. That's just my opinion though, I know guys who like it and guys who hate it.

[@melloyello89]

​@@AustinCoulson I'm not sure if you ever tried it but a bunch of the off-road channels I watch like to use a weldable brand of paint/primer called Steel-it that may be a little better for those purposes.

[@AustinCoulson]

@@melloyello89 I've used it. I did some tests a while back where I welded with it, then pulled the welds apart to see how far the weld burns the paint and decided it's not worth the high costs for most applications. Eastwood makes a paint that has this cool tip for spraying the inside of frame rails that I prefer to use after the fact in most circumstances where weld through primer would be recommended. In this fenders case I have good access to the backside where I will primer and paint it

[@deanadrian638]

Try saying Tinworm. Cancer don't sound good.

[@Xdghia]

The word 'build' gets thrown around a lot these days .A broad term ,but this is a "build" in the true sense .