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Dead Pick up
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:00 pm
by harryst
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
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 5:17 pm
by bigginger
Good luck - and remamber, they're NEVER dead
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:20 pm
by JimK
bigginger wrote:remamber, they're NEVER dead
Just very, very, ill... ;-)
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:36 pm
by bigginger
Tch! Saloon owners... Don't listen to them
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:42 pm
by rayofleamington
Good luck - and remamber, they're NEVER dead
true - they just need a new chassis, new back end, new cab and new engine....
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 6:55 pm
by d_harris
I've never owned a saloon!
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:10 pm
by bigginger
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
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:24 pm
by rayofleamington
They're all JUST saloons, really
yeah but the LCV's are just Minors without a rear seat...
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 7:35 pm
by bigginger
...but with enough space to carry loads of them...
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:19 pm
by JimK
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.
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:43 pm
by nebogipfel
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
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:55 pm
by JimK
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...
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:22 pm
by nebogipfel
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
Posted: Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:34 pm
by bigginger
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
Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 7:12 pm
by nebogipfel
bigginger wrote:
Do the same in a pick-up. and you have a mobile bar-b-q
Or a coal scuttle