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« Reply #345 on: November 25, 2007, 10:32:06 PM »

Then the sides were tried in place. Not bad. A little massaging & they'll do nicely. That'll leave an inch wide strip to add in either side of the window.
Lookin' good. For half a car with the back of a car 20 years younger slapped on, it looks right.
Nice work Loony. Wink
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« Reply #346 on: November 26, 2007, 09:13:36 PM »

thats looking good m8
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« Reply #347 on: November 27, 2007, 10:20:28 PM »

It'll look better with me cruising in it!  Cool
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« Reply #348 on: November 28, 2007, 08:31:45 AM »

It'll look better with me cruising in it!  Cool
nahhhh ya got that wrong m8 it would look even better with me cruising in it  Grin Grin pmsl
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« Reply #349 on: November 29, 2007, 10:22:03 AM »

Good work guy's, looks the bollox already  Grin, see I told you it would fit  Tongue Tongue
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« Reply #350 on: November 29, 2007, 08:09:01 PM »

I've never figured out why B*llox should be a compliment.
There's more filler on the roof than we originally realised & what looks like factory lead filling too. Seems to be 2 joints in the roof, one at either end of the door, identically placed on both sides of the car, that've been filled with lead. We can't weld to that & it melts away to nothing as soon as you wave an oxy torch at it. So Loony will plate over the deepest areas & we'll try our hand at leading the rest. Have you got the same joints in your roof Shaun, or is ours an early cut & shut job?   
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« Reply #351 on: November 29, 2007, 08:21:21 PM »

was the original vinyl section taken out of the roof by you manky ?
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« Reply #352 on: November 29, 2007, 08:39:50 PM »

No, already done when I bought the car. A tidy job, not bodged. The joints in the roof are only in the original section that runs around the outside of the insert & are quite deeply V'd. Even if it were the result of old accident damage, it doesn't matter as we're virtually rebuilding the car from scratch. We're just curious that's all. I'll try & get a photo of them.
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« Reply #353 on: November 29, 2007, 08:46:22 PM »

OK m8
i did some research years ago about ford pops/Anglias and the results i got was. What ever they had to hand was what got fitted at that time lol
they adjusted the doors with bits of 3"x2" wood lol
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« Reply #354 on: November 29, 2007, 08:56:35 PM »

 Grin Yeah, that's the impression we've got! Wonderful stuff!
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« Reply #355 on: December 08, 2007, 10:54:34 AM »

any progress???
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« Reply #356 on: December 08, 2007, 12:38:13 PM »

No, 'fraid not.  Sad
Lunatic's been ill this week with a flu bug thing, plus when he's been O.K to work, he's needed to get on with paying customer's cars. So the Pop's had to take a back seat for a while, (if anyone wants a Pop back seat I've got one by the way!). The pick up body's all just tack-welded at the moment with everything still subject to change if necessary. It's a patchwork of small fill-in pieces of steel sheet. Loony's taken the rear cab-back corners back off & repositioned them a couple of times, trying to get a perfect curve to match the original Pop roofline. The centre section of the Moggy cab back's still got it's strengthening flange, (where it used to bolt to the Moggy cab), which helps to keep it's roof shape. We've taken the flange off the corner sections though so they can be pulled about to meet the original Pop panels. Next job is probably to repair & replace the sills under the doors to tie the whole cab unit together into one piece & give it some rigidity.
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« Reply #357 on: December 09, 2007, 07:29:39 PM »

The heart of the beast.
My newly acquired 3 & a half litre Rover V8 engine & auto box. Up & running & bought for 200 quid from a friend of a friend here in Basingstoke.
Vroom, vroom! Grin
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« Reply #358 on: December 10, 2007, 01:09:27 AM »

Thanks to some research by Brock we now know the motor came from a 1979-80 SD1 Auto Rover with 9.35:1 compression. Mind you, there's no guarantee the heads came from the same motor. The guy I bought it from seemed to think they were from another model. They're wearing Range Rover exhaust headers, which are more compact than SD1s, so he may be right.
I don't intend playing about with the motor too much, just a quick tidy up & fix any leaks, then bung it in. If it ain't broke, don't break it by trying to fix it.
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« Reply #359 on: December 10, 2007, 11:45:57 AM »

that trike would look nice with mudguards on mank......... Grin Wink
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