Current state of my Big old Swedish HJ 60

[JPW 67]

She’s been parked in the corner of a Norwegian restoration shop waiting her turn to get the treatment, now Kenneth and his team have started to make progress, yes she’s from Sweden and I drove her here to the Telemark region in Norway where I’m currently on contract in the construction industry.

Body work is generally not bad apart from a hole in the floor next to the cill, corners of the windscreen and the bottom of the doors, remarkably the roof is ok around the gutter line but the sunroof is completely gone, Kenneth is going to weld a plate over it and make it disappear with fibreglass and skill, in fact he’s welding new metal into all the rust damaged areas, thought I’d share it with this forum, I’ll keep updating as progress is made….

Ohh and she’s going to be Sandy Taupe colour swapped including internally, some may not like that but I love that colour after being surrounded by them in the desert in Oman during my oilfield Stint..

 

[franklin40]

i love hjs. looking forward to seeing what you do!!

 

[JPW 67]

i love hjs. looking forward to seeing what you do!!

The work is being carried out by a specialist restorer, I can only tell him what I want, albeit in broken English I’m far too busy at work 6 days a week to do it myself, plus I don’t have a workshop and more importantly the skill…..

She’s only done 220,000 kilometres, I think she was a local municipality vehicle as there are many redundant switches and two holes in the roof above the driver that indicate a spotlight was once fitted, I do know that the barn doors where for commercial use as they allow easier loading and the heavy duty steel bumpers with many towing hitches indicate she used to tow machinery about on trailers ,

 

[jclark]

Is it an 88 or an 89? Also, which sunroof did you have the metal or the glass? Looking forward to watching this build please post regular updates.

 

[JPW 67]

Is it an aviator or an 89? Also, which sunroof did you have the metal or the glass? Looking forward to watching this build please post regular updates.

It was a metal sunroof, it’s a 1990 5 speed 2H diesel. A previous custodian had badly silicon sealed it because of leak issues, looked like it was applied with a catapult, see pic of removed sunroof panel.

Aviator, what’s that, never came across that model ?

 

[jclark]

It was a metal sunroof, it’s a 1990 5 speed 2H diesel. A previous custodian had badly silicon sealed it because of leak issues, looked like it was applied with a catapult, see pic of removed sunroof panel.

Aviator, what’s that, never came across that model ?

View attachment 3931092

Sorry, 88 or 89. Talk to text sucks.

Oh, that sunroof is in pretty rough shape. I’ve got a spare metal one. I swapped in a glass one.

 

[JPW 67]

I’m just gonna get the sunroof aperture welded shut and get it smoothed like factory finish, there is no motor anymore or controls so I’ll delete it, and while the headliner is missing from when I bought it I’ll just sound deaden it and make my own headliner with a flexible Material that I need to source and line it with grey alcantara or something.

Did all the high roof models have a sunroof, anybody know ?

 

[JPW 67]

Little bit of an update, doors are almost ready for primer, no more holes found in the floor…

Yes the photos are terrible, I didn’t take them, I got sent them by the bodywork guy Kenneth

View attachment 3940133

 

[JPW 67]

Not a massive amount of progress due to the Norwegian tradition of taking a month off work during June, July or August summer months.

But it’s moving in the right direction!!