Morris Minor Owners Club

Hi how much do you expect to pay for a lcv chassis, i know this will depend on condition, but does anybody have a rough idea as to how much they go for, as i may have one for sale shortly

about £150.00 to £400.00 to £800.00 depends on condition

Thanks aupickup, should get back the £150 i payed for the van then, looked at chassis and it looks in got nick, i intend to stip it a part and sell the chassis and keep the rest for spares

Shame to break it up if the chassis is ok - why not rebuild the thing -and save another one! Carriage on the chassis will be the problem - so unless you get a local buyer it will be difficult.

yesw agreed with bmc
tho if the chassis is a good un buyers will travel to collect
but do what bmc says and save the van

Seem to remember that the last Bull Motif spares pricelist had complete pick up chassis listed P.O.A. often wondered how much a new one would be.

they were about £900.00 i think, but its a very small minority
yes they are hard to get that is true, but again there are limits to what people will pay, and this will in later years reflect

Cheers for that, gives me something to think about, very long term considering doing a pick up from the ground up with new parts over 5 years or so, chassis will be the starting point as it'll take a few years to get the engine & running gear sorted out - thinking a 4wd high performance machine

Well - you said you already had an old Rangey in stock!

Don't get too excited about these 'new' chassis, there were many issues with them when first available. You should have a full spec sheet of dimensions in front of you and a tape measure when you go to view one. Nuff said

Sounds a bit grim that does Jonathan thanks for the heads up.

Well - you said you already had an old Rangey in stock

Shant be using that BMC - its more rust than metal now apart from the engine, used to drive it on the beach & in the sea so thats taking its toll.
Did see the pic of the pick up on landy / rr running gear and it looked a bit high and ut of proportion on the axles. Was thinking more along the lines of a imprezza running gear for performance.
Realistially thou bet a fiat panda would make a great 4x4 donor if you dont want to go fast, they were surprisingly good off road, but bet they are like hens teeth now.
Bit off topic but the RR engines fine and maybe when the chassis disintegrates will take that out maybe for a boat one day.
Actually started a scrapheap project on it yesterday which is to put a transport box sat on a pair of pallet toes on the back bolted directly off the chassis - have a montorous amount of stonework to do next year and a lot of moving stone etc.
T0 be honest if it wasnt in such poor shape i'd go the whole hog and stick a 3 point linkage on there just for fun

Hmmm - RR engine - would fit nicely into my TR7!! It's already got the Rover 5 speed box and rear axle!

Orkney wrote:Cheers for that, gives me something to think about, very long term considering doing a pick up from the ground up with new parts over 5 years or so, chassis will be the starting point as it'll take a few years to get the engine & running gear sorted out - thinking a 4wd high performance machine

Best start with a purpose made chassis then - the Mog one's only 1.2 mm steel ;)

You'd like this one, 3.5 efi overbored, fast road cam, sorted heads, few other internal upgrades, induction kit blah blah, full janspeed 4-2-1 both sides stainless (not that its any good for anything else)
Revs very highly for a v8, my mate had a motorsports parts business until a couple of years ago so i got all i needed for cost to him which was great.
Could do with a service but it'll more than outlast the chassis as is. When that gives up no doubt i'll swap it for a 2ltr toyota diesel lump for the knackered landy (so i can run it on chip oil) to the first to offer

so r u gonna sell the chassis then

Orkney... i believe a lot of people fit transit diesel engines in Landy's god knows why though! But they run quite happily on veg oil provided you get one with a bosch fuel pump not a lucas

Cheers Matt, I'll be steering well clear of transit engines - last transit I had cost £800 for the fuel pump rebuild for the ever worstening leak to be fixed just so i could sell it for less than double that dont recall which pump it was but swore never ever ever again !