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Jun 21, 2006 20:02:37 GMT
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Seeing all those pickups prompted me to do a bit of image manipulation to see what a Herald pickup would look like. The roll-your-own nature of Herald customisation due to the separate chassis and bolt-together kit of body components makes this a surprisingly achievable aim. I'd approach it thus: Move the rear deck of a Herald saloon rear tub from its usual position to just behind the front seat. Foreshorten a Herald roof to fit the new rear deck position and move the B pillar back. Remove the rear tub floor entirely from rear bumper to the step up for the rear seat. Extend rear seat step up to meet the rear deck Fabricate rear box frame to hold position of rear wings and provide a framework for the rear inner box which I'd make out of wooden planks. After all it's sod all use if you cant carry heavy stuff in it. Fabricate a tailgate from a Herald boot lid and fit new hinges and catches to locate with the rear box frame. You'd also have to find a new fuel tank from a donor car to fit under the rear box in one of the rear chassis wells, and you'd have to get new window glass cut. And of course an extra leaf or two in that rear spring. Of course the paragraphs above make it sound easier than it is. I don't think I have the skill to do the roof properly for instance. But with a Herald project and a spare rusty saloon tub outside it makes you think...
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bryn
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Jun 21, 2006 21:43:21 GMT
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Get on then... I think it could make quite an attractive vehicle, I'd go for a flat rear screen though, so it looked a little more factory, what about a GT6 roof panel grafted onto a sectioned Herald with a six in it?
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Volvo, Buggy, Discovery and an old tractor.
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Get on then... I think it could make quite an attractive vehicle, I'd go for a flat rear screen though, so it looked a little more factory, what about a GT6 roof panel grafted onto a sectioned Herald with a six in it? Sadly I have a 948 to put on the road first I don't quite agree with you on the flat rear screen. For two reasons. The curved screen makes it look more as though it sprang from the pen of Mr. Michelotti, and in a home made pickup a flat screen almost makes it look less factory father than more so because the manufacturer usually makes such a better job of flatness IYSWIM. In the pickups thread there is a Merc with a curved rear screen that particularly caught my fancy. A GT6 roof would require the GT6 screen as well, definitely beyond my skillset. Spits and GT6s have a one-piece body and a chassis without the side rails - they can get rotten sills while Heralds cant. I'm not a GT6 fan anyway, another car designed for contortionists. I'm also not a great fan of 6 cylinder engines in the Herald derived cars, it's simply more than that rear can handle. The period conversion is a Coventry Climax engine, the same one as the Lotus Elite(?).
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Seth
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What you really need to make one of these is an Estate as half the job is already done. In fact, roadster pick up from an estate would be exceptionally easy. In any case, an estate fuel tank (larger capacity than the others) sits in the area you're covering over anyway just behind the hump over the diff and has a scallop out of it so you can still get the spare wheel in (tank removed in this photo) No need for floor replacement! Note the little gussets on to the inner wheel arches which were Triumphs only bit of extra strength on these tubs! Estate rear springs have fewer but thicker leaves than all the others and are meant for load lugging. I think that covers some of it. Roof would be the trickiest bit but even that wouldn't be too hard. Go for it
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Looks El Caminish. Love it.
*n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Jun 22, 2006 12:24:18 GMT
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The reason I suggested a saloon tub would be to use the saloon rear deck. Though it is true the combination of an estate tub and a saloon rear deck would make for less of a task of tidying up the top of the wings where the deck was removed from.
Estate fuel tanks - true, they're sort of in the right place. I havent had a good history with them though so my first thought would be to use the space vacated by the rear seat squab.
As an aside, the person who built the Bond-bonneted Herald has long had a project in mind for a lengthened four door Herald limousine using an estate roof. Dunno it it will ever happen but he did get the convertible project together.
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Jun 22, 2006 12:30:16 GMT
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Looks El Caminish. Love it. *n In a stubby El Camino-ish kinda way:) I think it would look better proportioned in the picture above without the Bond bonnet. Perhaps the 13/60 front would suit it best. SO, it's lucky I don't know anyone with a 13/60 estate with terminal rear tub rust, isnt it.
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