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« on: February 24, 2013, 07:49:03 PM » |
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I visited my big brother Steve, (Brock), in Wiltshire today. No other reason than just to say Hello & mooch around his workshop.
He & Scottie the hotrod haulier have been working on a joint project for a while now -a late 50s Nash Metropolitan. They're building it in nose-high gasser style, primarily for the drag strip, (they both race with the Wild Bunch nostalgia drag club), but it could just as easily be run on the street.
Mr Brock put together a box section chassis with ladder bars & coil springs at the back & hairpins & a 26" transverse leaf spring on a home built straight tube axle with Hillman Minx wheels at the front. It holds a 3.9 litre Rover V8 engine mated to a Chevy 2 speed PowerGlide auto gearbox, with a narrowed Sherpa 200 van axle at the other end, sitting on enormous racing slicks & Rover P5 wheel centres with suzuki vitara rims.
Metros have a bolt-on hard top roof, which will hide the bolt-in single loop roll bar. Being an early model, it doesn't have an opening boot, but has a recess for the spare wheel on the rear deck.
I love this. The only Metro gasser in the country?
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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2013, 07:49:30 PM » |
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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2013, 07:49:57 PM » |
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« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2013, 07:50:23 PM » |
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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2013, 07:50:51 PM » |
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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2013, 07:51:17 PM » |
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« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2013, 07:51:43 PM » |
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« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2013, 07:52:49 PM » |
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Steve, plasma cutting the rear arches.
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« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2013, 09:23:49 AM » |
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cool, I do like me an unusual Gasser..
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you ain't it, till you've "Bobbed" a Brit!!!
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« Reply #9 on: February 25, 2013, 05:22:05 PM » |
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I LOVE IT !!!!!!!!!!!. More pics when you can.  |
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« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2013, 05:39:07 PM » |
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cool, I do like me an unusual Gasser..
strange, so do i!!!  |
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« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2013, 07:07:22 PM » |
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After all the hassle getting my own project registered for the road I was determined to take a few days out & do something totally non auto related. So I went for a drive this afternoon. Just randomly cruising around the back roads of Hampshire & Berkshire, I found myself irrisistably drawn toward Wiltshire. So I ended up back at my brother Steve's place. He & Scottie were hard at work on the Metro, Steve adding outriggers to the chassis & Scottie welding sills to the body. Sorry for interrupting guys! The chassis' being built to full drag race spec -because it's so short it looks super chunky. |
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« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2013, 07:08:33 PM » |
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Scottie's handiwork.
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« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2013, 07:11:40 PM » |
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A heap of rare classic car debris. Maybe they could weld it all together & sell it to the classic brigade as repair panels.
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