Manky's Pop.

[BikerGran]

Ah you only get a bit of a bump from an electric fence.

[kapri]

I forgot to mention the other night that if you want to tow you will need bar and electrics fitted at time of test,it's a one off and you CANNOT tow without them assigning a weight at time of test .

[Manky Monkey]

Useful info Kev, but I'm rubbish at towing trailers! We did consider fitting a tow hitch so I could take both the Pop & my trike to shows, but doubt we'll really bother.
Loony & I fiddled with the bonnet a bit more today. He welded the repair patches into the the front corners while I butchered, carefully cut up the remains of the spare side sections to give us a strengthening edge bead to stiffen the panels up & get rid of some of the razor sharp edges.
Loony also managed to free off the siezed bonnet catches & fitted the replacement handles I bought last year. We only had 3 of the 4 original ones. These were just 15 quid for a set of 4 in stainless steel from Ebay -cheaper than replacement mild steel ones from most Pop parts suppliers. We've decided to use 2 of the old ones as interior door pulls inside the cab.

[Manky Monkey]

Make a list, we keep being told, so you know exactly what needs doing.
So we made a list. It's taller than the truck & almost as tall as the Lunatic.

[poprodder]

nice work there andy, i've a set of bonnet pull handles sitting here doing nothing, but they are'nt the blingy ones!!!!  lol

[Manky Monkey]

Why do you keep telling me you've got stuff after I've bought it Chris! 

[poprodder]

you should ask first!!!! what else do you need!!!

[Manky Monkey]

Not a lot really -unless you just happen to have a complete set of window rubbers & channels? 

Just spent what seems like a lifetime on the phone to my local DVLA office, (Wimbledon, North London). All I wanted was to talk to someone about ordering a kitcar registration pack & to ask what info they need to issue a VIN number.
Their crazy phone system's completely automated -you can't actually talk to a real person. You're just given endless lists of options -press one if you'd like to jam your phone down our throats, press two if you've completely lost the will to live etc. I know all Government departments are like this but you'd think there'd be a general enquiries bloke somewhere there surely.
Anyway, I ended up being routed to the main enquiries call centre in Swansea, Walesshire, where I was able to order the registration pack. As for the VIN number, I'm just going to have to go to Wimbledon in person for that I think. It's several years since Taz & I went there to pick up VIN numbers for our trike builds, (still not finished). I'm pretty sure we only took proof of ID & address as we didn't have any receipts for anything on the trikes & we were still building them, so I guess it'll be the same, though I've still got the original Pop logbook & I can give them the engine number.
As most trike builders here have found, it's the paperwork & bureaucracy that cause the biggest headaches in most one-off builds.

[spanners]

bloody DVLA ,,AGAIN,,, they make me lose the will to live  ++ 

[terry t]

you should ask first!!!! what else do you need!!!

HELP lots of   

[poprodder]

which rubbers? runners etc as i've some here.

[WAYNE999]

bloody DVLA ,,AGAIN,,, they make me lose the will to live  ++ 

its their quaint insistance on paying road tax and having your mot up to date im not too keen on

[Manky Monkey]

 
Chris, I haven't got any of the rubbers, so need windscreen surround, rear window surround, (standard Morris Minor pick-up. I've got the rear glass). Also any felt channels & weather seals for the side windows. Haven't got any weather seals for the doors either.

[spanners]

no door rubbers === 1950.s air conditioning   

[Manky Monkey]

 
The rest of the exhaust tubing arrived in the post today from OJZ Engineering. 38mm O/D stainless steel. I ordered 2 1 metre lengths of straight tube & 4 45 degree bends. Unfortunately I'd forgotten that the bends behind the cab are tighter than 45 degrees, so I had to cut several wedges out of them to pull them up a bit. Loony welded them up again, using stainless MIG wire. Not pretty at the moment but they should smooth out O.K with the trusty angle grinder & hand file.
The pipes will follow the line of the chassis up behind the cab, then along, under either side of the pick-up bed, before tipping down at 45 degrees towards the road. This will all be hidden by the bed sides once they're fitted.
I also bent up 4 stainless tabs to hold the British Leyland Mini exhaust "bobbins" that the pipes will hang from.