pig build starts here...

			Well this is how pig started, a  pooh brown, 21 year old, 38,000kms on the clock and a whole lot of rust
			Being England its gonna rain, get used to living under a scabby tarp :-) the roof was off and the goal posts cut for use later
			The rear bumper came off in my hand, more rain
			Was tempted just to build a pickup but my angle grinder "Christine" (its got a dodgy switch and a mind of its own) kept cutting
			The hangover after last nights party.... bugger
			Rear quarter piece is bolted to a curve section, its easier to cut this out and weld it back onto the body rather than remake the whole thing
			I only ever get to work on pig at the weekends or evenings so sorry about the dark pics, using the original lower tailgate ensures the correct width of the uprights - tack a piece of box section to the sides to jig it all in place
			a "C" section was pressed up to make the winch base/crossmember, I welded this to the chassis
			a quick dose of weldthrough primer and it off to the next job
			Roof being measured up - don't buy permanent markers or pukka whitepens, I only ever use Pental correction pens (£1 for 4). Just to make a change the rain relented and was replaced by sleet
			Goal posts welded back on, notice the spacer needed to keep the roof line true
			with the goal posts back on I could sort the roof, measure twice! by doing it the way I have here all the bolt holes line up and make life easy, use the section of roof that has been removed to make a brace on the underside
			I've seen some nice work on other bobtails with respect to cutting the wings down, as I figured the rear wings wouldn't survive Ladoga so I wanted quick and easy - lots of whitepen for the wheelarch cutouts. I plonked the upper tailgate on to check everything fitted
			rear "bumper" fitted up, 120x60mm box section, 6mm thick. The design was proven in Germany when a BMW lost a fight with pig on the autobahn, BMW = write off. pig = chipped paint
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