Hello tony!
Welcome to the club

sounds like a serious job on the 1000, we have some welding to catch up on with the 406145 and the 411 next summer, any questions just ask

Shame about the 406, as in my opinion it one of the best engineered models ever made.
As you'll see if you look around the forum a Bit, we like a bit of banter on here, and it usually stems from Unimog related topics!
Cheers, Brian