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[Teapot]

Time to start the rebuild of my pickup. This is what he looked like until the end of last year



And then he suddenly looked like this


I still haven't got pictures of the parts of the f o/s suspension that broke and brought him down.

Here is the only picture I have so far of the rebuild, by Paul Tupman at Kingsteignton.



A small beginning, but radical, and from this everything changes. This is a 13" to 10" conversion kit with the smaller discs,
solid with black pads for the time being to see how they cope with the 1380. The wheels will be 4.5 Minilifes with the extra innner offset so not only will the sportspack arches be gone, there will be no arches at all and the plain webbing trim now just on the sills and rear valance will probably run unbroken all the way.

The strengthened tie bars, adjustable bottom arms and braided hoses from before are retained, as are the solid front subframe mounts.

The cabin with the Corbeau seats and three-point Luke harness with the unique mounting bar across the back of the cab will stay because I like it like that.

Edited by Teapot, 21 April 2010 - 03:29 PM.

[Juju]

Weeeeeeeeeeee!!

It has begun.

[Teapot]

Huey is still waiting to go into the body shop. The whole offside will be rebuilt, with a new A pillar (thanks emalee!), and the 10" wheels will mean at least the n/s wing has to be replaced as well. The side repeaters are disappearing as "not correct." The front will stay for now, lamps and all, until we see what it looks like overall.

The colour will be ... Pageant Blue - JNA (BLVC224)
Years: 77-81





That's it for now and I don't expect much more for a while. However, I'm chuffed to have chosen this course when Mrs T has just bought a stonking Cooper Sportspack with styling that goes in exactly the opposite direction. Let the games commence.

[Tim1970]

So glad to see this,
Plans sound very nice indeed archless will look great with the tens.
Look forward to seeing it all coming together
All the best.

Tim

[crazirob]

Time to start the rebuild of my pickup. This is what he looked like until the end of last year



And then he suddenly looked like this

WHT HAPPENED ! her was booootifull.

makes me quite sad seeing him like this

the Pageant Blue, was that a standard mini pickup colour ? mines sitting in it atm

Robbie

Edited by crazirob, 16 February 2010 - 09:43 PM.

[analogue_radio]

Good luck with this, happy its going to be sitting on 10s

[Bungle]

so who's rebuild with will be finished first ?







yours or Huey's

[Teapot]

so who's rebuild with will be finished first ? urs or Huey's

Mine's done! I start on the exercise bike tomorrow.
to be honest I don't know if Pageant was a correct commercial vehicle colour but it's better than the original Ford Imperial Blue (although that was very pretty).

[emalee]

soooooo glad you are rebuilding your lovely pick up!!!

i'm glad i can help for the a piller

i'm gonna keep peaking into tupmans to see the progress - so exciting!!!! - have you got a bodyshop date yet??

(and your seats are comfy!! hehe)

[GraemeC]

Excellent news on Huey - glad to see this will be returning to our roads soon!!

[Heather&Henrietta]

Glad to see work has started Dave, I'm really looking for to seeing him restored and back to looking good


I still can't believe I only saw you both just the day before this happened


My dad wants to go for 10s but needs some advice. Next time we see you, would you be willing to have a chat about Huey's conversion?

[MateyTheMini]

Aww poor Mini, nice to see it getting restored, Good luck with it

[mini-man-dan]

Bring on Huey MkII !
Going for more of an old-skool look this time then? Pageant blue is very similar to what mine was in the 1st place, we've done a swap
Here's all the colours for Mini Pickups. Pageant doesn't seem to appear:

Body colours January 1961 to 196? [10] [11]


Whitehall Beige
Smoke Grey

Body colours 196? to 1965 [12] [13]


Whitehall Beige
Tweed Grey
Willow Green

Body colours and paint codes under Austin & Morris, 1965 to 1969. [14]


Whitehall Beige (BG4)
Persian Blue (BU39)
Everglade Green (GN42)
Cumulus Grey (GR29)
Damask Red (RD5)
Snowberry White (GN33)
Tweed Grey (GR4)
White (WT2)
Marigold (YL7)

Body colour, paint codes and VIN paint codes under British Leyland, 1969 to 1983. [14]


Antelope (BLVC7) - ???
Aqua (BLVC60) - JMA
Flame Red (BLVC61) - CMB
Glacier White (BLVC59) - NMA
Teal Blue 70 (BLVC18) - JMC
Green Mallard (BLVC22) - HMD
Harvest Gold (BLVC19) - ???
Tundra (BLVC94) - HMF
Mirage (BLVC11) - LMF
Tahiti Blue (BLVC65) - JMP
Damask Red (BLVC99) - CMA
Cumulus Grey (BLVC19) - LMB
Persian Blue (BU39) - ???
Connought Green (GN18) - ???
Flamenco (BLVC133) - EMC
Sandglow (BLVC63) - AMF
Java (BLVC208) - HAB

[E.L.M.O]

Nice one Teapot!

The pick up I have my eye on is Pageant Blue, but I would love to have it in the Imperial blue! Its such an eye catcher in that colour! I am amazed you would want to have it back to a "standard" colour after having such a outstanding Bling!

[jayare]

Glad to see Huey is being rebuilt! I'm pretty sure that Pageant Blue was available on the pickup - I think it will look a lot more 'in keeping' with the new look than the Ford colour.

JR