Hi, new to this forum and from what i've seen, theres some great cars on here, so I thought I'd add one of my latest (longterm) projects :twisted:
I've always loved pick-ups and since m step-father bought me a Morris minor when I was 15 and I restored it to concourse and sold it whe I was 17, I wanted another Minor - sad eh! So I set about finding something I could really cannibalise as I hate destroying mint condition classics. The pictures show just how bad this car is. Got it on ebay around my 19th birthday for around £54 and I had to travel 310 miles to collect! Far from stock, masses of rust (terminal really)), PAS and Disk brake conversion, horrible T-bar conversion, this car used to run a highly tuned MGB engine, then the previous owner had fited an Lancia twin camm.
I sat the vehicle outside my fathers garage business for a couple of months whilst I finished off stripping and flooring a spare building then painted it, added electrics/lighting then moved it in:
Started dis-assembly on the vehicle when I had spare time, buying pieces now and again as some of the interior panels on the front end will remain standard(ish):
After a couple more months had some storage issues with other projects etc in the little workshop so emptied my workshop again and cleared everything away. The picture below shows a couple of the little bikes/quads/peds etc that were blocking work area. So I had to clear another storage shed bigger than this to store all 20 odd bikes/vehicles:
Before I put the vehicle back in ( now without floors/back/doors etc ) I pressure washed and steam cleaned the shell to prevent more massive piles of loose rust forming under the work areas.
Ordered some panels such as standard inner wheel panles, A-panels and Internal kidney panels, which will give me a good basis for measurements before cutting into them to modify and widen the shell before seperating it from its old chassis and putting it on its new one I'm designing:
another few weeks passed then I started more de-construction, taking the modified suspension off etc, stuff i'll never use again:
^ Last pic shows carefully removed inner arches lol ^
First real mistake was to start repairing the windscreen surround, as I later found a replacement standard 1-piece roof (which I need due to the gay T-bar roof) and full rust-free surround. It was a time consuming process with no repair panels available and convex and concave curves:
Found a 1 piece fibreglass front which will be a good basis again for my modified flip-front end. I can widen it by 6" then create a buck and cast the new carbon/kevlar piece when the time comes. This piece was in portsmouth, and a friend brought it up to cumbria for me in the ack of his Brand New Focus ST, which it JUST fitted into. I gave him a saw and told him if it needs cut, cut it perfectly stright down the centre-line, nonetheless it squeezed in
And thats about the stage I'm at now, I've been cutting the front up to fit in some new replacement pieces which I should have some photos of pretty soon. I've been vague about what the cars going to be when its finished but it will be far from standard with only some of the interior panels being standard shape but not finish.
Hope you enjoy, its a long first post to digest!!!!
Thanks
Jordan
I've always loved pick-ups and since m step-father bought me a Morris minor when I was 15 and I restored it to concourse and sold it whe I was 17, I wanted another Minor - sad eh! So I set about finding something I could really cannibalise as I hate destroying mint condition classics. The pictures show just how bad this car is. Got it on ebay around my 19th birthday for around £54 and I had to travel 310 miles to collect! Far from stock, masses of rust (terminal really)), PAS and Disk brake conversion, horrible T-bar conversion, this car used to run a highly tuned MGB engine, then the previous owner had fited an Lancia twin camm.
I sat the vehicle outside my fathers garage business for a couple of months whilst I finished off stripping and flooring a spare building then painted it, added electrics/lighting then moved it in:
Started dis-assembly on the vehicle when I had spare time, buying pieces now and again as some of the interior panels on the front end will remain standard(ish):
After a couple more months had some storage issues with other projects etc in the little workshop so emptied my workshop again and cleared everything away. The picture below shows a couple of the little bikes/quads/peds etc that were blocking work area. So I had to clear another storage shed bigger than this to store all 20 odd bikes/vehicles:
Before I put the vehicle back in ( now without floors/back/doors etc ) I pressure washed and steam cleaned the shell to prevent more massive piles of loose rust forming under the work areas.
Ordered some panels such as standard inner wheel panles, A-panels and Internal kidney panels, which will give me a good basis for measurements before cutting into them to modify and widen the shell before seperating it from its old chassis and putting it on its new one I'm designing:
another few weeks passed then I started more de-construction, taking the modified suspension off etc, stuff i'll never use again:
^ Last pic shows carefully removed inner arches lol ^
First real mistake was to start repairing the windscreen surround, as I later found a replacement standard 1-piece roof (which I need due to the gay T-bar roof) and full rust-free surround. It was a time consuming process with no repair panels available and convex and concave curves:
Found a 1 piece fibreglass front which will be a good basis again for my modified flip-front end. I can widen it by 6" then create a buck and cast the new carbon/kevlar piece when the time comes. This piece was in portsmouth, and a friend brought it up to cumbria for me in the ack of his Brand New Focus ST, which it JUST fitted into. I gave him a saw and told him if it needs cut, cut it perfectly stright down the centre-line, nonetheless it squeezed in
And thats about the stage I'm at now, I've been cutting the front up to fit in some new replacement pieces which I should have some photos of pretty soon. I've been vague about what the cars going to be when its finished but it will be far from standard with only some of the interior panels being standard shape but not finish.
Hope you enjoy, its a long first post to digest!!!!
Thanks
Jordan
Good work!
