It does look like that. Strange......it is common to see later parts fitted to earlier cars, but not the other way around. Looks like a car with great potential thoughManyMinors wrote: ↑Sat Sep 03, 2022 5:42 pm
Is it my eyes or does it have an earlier model (Series 11) rear wing fitted with the higher cut wheelarch?
myoldjalopy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 1:40 pm A previous owner has been crazily random, it seems - earlier rear wings, fitted with later tail/stop lights for a 1961 vehicle! Let's hope the mechanics haven't been similarly meddled with - imagine an 803cc engine fitted with a 948 gearbox and a 1098 diff!
Good news is it can all be put right as part of the restoration process
OK, but I don't see your point about the lights. All I said was that the tail lights were of a style later than that of the car itself, a statement which is correct - Oct 1963 onward tail lights on a 1961 car!geoberni wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:16 ammyoldjalopy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 1:40 pm A previous owner has been crazily random, it seems - earlier rear wings, fitted with later tail/stop lights for a 1961 vehicle! Let's hope the mechanics haven't been similarly meddled with - imagine an 803cc engine fitted with a 948 gearbox and a 1098 diff!
Good news is it can all be put right as part of the restoration process
Actually, those are '63 tail light units....
'61-'63 was the interim American style indicators....
Getting those earlier wings would have been harder than getting the correct ones. My '55 should have those, but has the later ones....
Sorry, subtleties of the English language; the way I read it, I though you were saying '61 lights had been fitted to an earlier car.myoldjalopy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 10:15 amOK, but I don't see your point about the lights. All I said was that the tail lights were of a style later than that of the car itself, a statement which is correct - Oct 1963 onward tail lights on a 1961 car!geoberni wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:16 ammyoldjalopy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 04, 2022 1:40 pm A previous owner has been crazily random, it seems - earlier rear wings, fitted with later tail/stop lights for a 1961 vehicle! Let's hope the mechanics haven't been similarly meddled with - imagine an 803cc engine fitted with a 948 gearbox and a 1098 diff!
Good news is it can all be put right as part of the restoration process
Actually, those are '63 tail light units....
'61-'63 was the interim American style indicators....
Getting those earlier wings would have been harder than getting the correct ones. My '55 should have those, but has the later ones....
Sorry for the late reply Rocco. Yep, you definitely need new engine mount rubbers!! ESM is amazingly cheap and do pretty much everything, but their postage can be expensive so I find it pays to work up a list of things and benefit from their free postage over £100. Appreciate that might not apply to you though.rocco wrote: ↑Mon Sep 05, 2022 9:01 am Nice one Philip
I have no doubt that I'll get a tremendous amount of pleasure driving the old thing once I've got it sorted but until then, I can fully appreciate there will be an abundance of swearing ahead of me.
I've just shelled out on a new aluminium radiator, quite a good deal for €99 delivered and also a 15L ultrasonic cleaner for the carb and other small bits that'll need a good clean. Now I'm trying to figure out which engine hoist/crane will be best and an engine stand for stripping it down.
After that I'm going to search this place for some advice on a full engine rebuilt kit with complete sets of gaskets, seals, hoses, filters etc. I think I might need a couple of these black things too.
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