Did your pickup have foam filled cills? I dont know if it was standard but ive just have to dig it out of my cills.
Yes but i don't think it was a standard fitment, the foam was bits of chip shop chip trays cut up and pushed inside through a hole at the back of the sill, the hole was then bodged over with filler and mesh!!
it just wouldnt die!
I know the feeling, i took the fuel tank off mine, (which had 7 year old fuel in it), and was using the car as a drogue for testing what my dad's AA battery tester said were scrap batteries (ie, crank for 15 seconds and see what the voltage drop on the battery is). We were on the 4th battery (bearing in mind this 850 had not run since 1996, had no fuel tank and a carb full of C**p), happily cranking away, when the thing bloody started! Scared the c**p out of us because it has no exhaust so it sounded pretty loud! I'm sure it was just trying to tell us it still wanted to live!
I think my pickup was used like that, it was a farm hack till it failed its mot, then it sat in a barn.
Exactly the same as mine, mine was part of an ad for 3 scrap Minivans, but i managed to get the owner to split. It was in the shadow of Snowdon (literally!), and had been in a barn since '96, gathering dust and junk in the back!
I'm looking forward to this summer because i'm going to strip it down to a bare shell (its been under a tarp since last summer as the Clubby took priority), but this summer i'm going to ravage it and start putting it right!
Going to take some time.............................. :tongue:
Tom