Milly Update :)
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:35 pm
Wotcha folks,
Just thought I'd share with you the newest member of the family.
This is Milly
She is a 1959 standard 2dr.
As the more observant amongst you may have noticed she's not exactly a runner yet.
I got her from a fellow board member, and more importantly, mate from Sadmog known to you lot as WPR.
The history goes that her previous owner had her all welded up (some new floor panels and the sills rebuilt) back in '91 to get her back on the road but then gave up. Carlo's dad got her last year but as she was surplus to requirements we took her on last month.
The Plan
As some of you know we've had Maude (1970 2dr) for a couple of years now, but after last years serious MOT fail i've been Umming and Arring about getting a new floor welded in. The problems being that,
A) I couldn't afford to pay someone to put an new floor in.
B) Even after the new floor, Maude still would need new chassis rails Next year and the roof is going around the gutters. All in all we would need to spend around £1000 a year on welding for the next 3-4 years and she'd still be BT Yellow
After a lot of soul searching we decided that Maude would have to be sacrificed BUT as all her mechanicals were fine and dandy she's going to be stripped down for parts.
Enter Milly. Now she is a rolling shell but as the Engine was an unknown quantity and didn't come with a gearbox it was a bit of a No brainer. So Maude will supply the engine and gearbox (probably rear diff too).
This will then make adding Maudes front brakes as an interim brake upgrade essential too.
Ulimatly Milly is going to be my nearly daily runner and our weekend car so i'm considering going 9" drum or, if feeling flush Discs.
She's getting a respray this spring (Me and my Brother-in-law's 1st attempt
)
Other items on the agenda are to try and clean up the exhaust system by fitting a home made RC40 unit with, possibly an adapted midget LCB manifold.
And a water heated inlet manifold with maybe an HIF38 to try and lean out the mid range a bit.
Basically watch this space, Mrs Paulk wants her off the garden by Late June so I'm having to pack the work into quite a tight time schedule.
Heres a few pics from just before we bought her.
Side view of not a lot really
Hmmm 1959 dash with added guages
Just as an aside she's getting Joemog's old wings (Peetee) and there are negotiations on going for Freemog's seats (Matt) so she will truly be a product of the almighty Sadmog.
Sadmog are also helping to strip down Maude so there is some nice recycling going on too.
Paulk and milly
Just thought I'd share with you the newest member of the family.
This is Milly
She is a 1959 standard 2dr.
As the more observant amongst you may have noticed she's not exactly a runner yet.
I got her from a fellow board member, and more importantly, mate from Sadmog known to you lot as WPR.
The history goes that her previous owner had her all welded up (some new floor panels and the sills rebuilt) back in '91 to get her back on the road but then gave up. Carlo's dad got her last year but as she was surplus to requirements we took her on last month.
The Plan
As some of you know we've had Maude (1970 2dr) for a couple of years now, but after last years serious MOT fail i've been Umming and Arring about getting a new floor welded in. The problems being that,
A) I couldn't afford to pay someone to put an new floor in.
B) Even after the new floor, Maude still would need new chassis rails Next year and the roof is going around the gutters. All in all we would need to spend around £1000 a year on welding for the next 3-4 years and she'd still be BT Yellow
After a lot of soul searching we decided that Maude would have to be sacrificed BUT as all her mechanicals were fine and dandy she's going to be stripped down for parts.
Enter Milly. Now she is a rolling shell but as the Engine was an unknown quantity and didn't come with a gearbox it was a bit of a No brainer. So Maude will supply the engine and gearbox (probably rear diff too).
This will then make adding Maudes front brakes as an interim brake upgrade essential too.
Ulimatly Milly is going to be my nearly daily runner and our weekend car so i'm considering going 9" drum or, if feeling flush Discs.
She's getting a respray this spring (Me and my Brother-in-law's 1st attempt
)Other items on the agenda are to try and clean up the exhaust system by fitting a home made RC40 unit with, possibly an adapted midget LCB manifold.
And a water heated inlet manifold with maybe an HIF38 to try and lean out the mid range a bit.
Basically watch this space, Mrs Paulk wants her off the garden by Late June so I'm having to pack the work into quite a tight time schedule.
Heres a few pics from just before we bought her.
Side view of not a lot really
Hmmm 1959 dash with added guages
Just as an aside she's getting Joemog's old wings (Peetee) and there are negotiations on going for Freemog's seats (Matt) so she will truly be a product of the almighty Sadmog.
Sadmog are also helping to strip down Maude so there is some nice recycling going on too.
Paulk and milly
