Dead Pick up

Post by **harryst** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:00 pm

Hi everyone, I have just joined th MM club I have had a Austin badged Pick up now for 12 months ( well and truly shot) and have just started to pull the body off I got 2 x floor and inner wing arches and the rear outter wings in with the deal.
I have aquired a MIG welder and I am going to start practicing on some clean metal I purchased for £2 from local metalworker.
I will not have many problems on the mechanical side but the body makes me shiver.
I am in North Yorkshire and if anyone could point me in the direction (via private email) of a good body rebuilder it would be a great help.
I have some pictures of the dead moggie and from now on it must get better.
Harry

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:17 pm

Good luck - and remamber, they're NEVER dead

Post by **JimK** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:20 pm

bigginger wrote:remamber, they're NEVER dead

Just very, very, ill... ;-)

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:36 pm

Tch! Saloon owners... Don't listen to them

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:42 pm

Good luck - and remamber, they're NEVER dead

true - they just need a new chassis, new back end, new cab and new engine....

Post by **d_harris** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:55 pm

I've never owned a saloon!

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:10 pm

rayofleamington wrote:
Good luck - and remamber, they're NEVER dead
true - they just need a new chassis, new back end, new cab and new engine....

The new chassis' just behind her, the engine's in the shed (looking beautiful, btw), The back end bit you can't see is under cover awaiting welding - all the bits are here, she's sitll breathing

Dan_Harris wrote:I've never owned a saloon!

Me neither - or a trav, or a convertible. They're all JUST saloons, really

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:24 pm

They're all JUST saloons, really

yeah but the LCV's are just Minors without a rear seat...

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:35 pm

...but with enough space to carry loads of them...

Post by **JimK** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:19 pm

A Traveller is a saloon front with a garden shed bolted on the back.

I was tempted by a pickup but needed more than two seats.

Post by **nebogipfel** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:43 pm

JimK wrote:A Traveller is a saloon front with a garden shed bolted on the back.

Does that mean a pickup is for someone who can't afford a garden shed

Post by **JimK** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:55 pm

nebogipfel wrote:Does that mean a pickup is for someone who can't afford a garden shed

I reckon so, it's a shed with no roof.

If you seal up the tailgate on a pickup, could you have a mobile hot tub? That would out-score a shed...

Post by **nebogipfel** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:22 pm

JimK wrote:
If you seal up the tailgate on a pickup, could you have a mobile hot tub? That would out-score a shed...

But if you had hot coals in the back of a Trav' you'd have a sauna - or a conflagration of course

At least it would be warm in the back

I think I need to sleep, fatigue induced delirium is setting in

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:34 pm

nebogipfel wrote:

But if you had hot coals in the back of a Trav' you'd have a sauna - or a conflagration of course

Do the same in a pick-up. and you have a mobile bar-b-q

Post by **nebogipfel** » Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:12 pm

bigginger wrote:
Do the same in a pick-up. and you have a mobile bar-b-q

Or a coal scuttle