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[ToM 2012]

so £4000 i have a mini pickup?

[ToM 2012]

i wont need many of those panels if i could buy the pickup on ebay the link on 2nd page. i can try and reuse the back half of the cab and rear ends of pickup with abit of work and bits and bobs... 

[Tupers]

I'm not convinced there's enough good panels on there to make it worth any more than £200. You may be able to save a bit of money though. 

 

[megamini_jb]

Wouldn't even pay £20, let alone £200

[mini 100]

i hope you do buy the ebay link on the second page

[ToM 2012]

Why mini 100

[Cooperman]

No one has mentioned that the pick-up, traveller and van are all longer than the saloon.

You would really need a body assembly jig to do the complete new & longer rear end and still ensure sub-frame alignment.

With the correct jig it is entirely feasible and I have a good friend who has such a jig. In fact he has just finished a complete re-build of a pick-up with only the bulkhead a d cab rear panel being retained from the original.

As above, a genuine pick-up has a high rarity value as a classic vehicle, but a converted later model shell with an IVA (assuming it could get one) would still be regarded as a hybrid despite it costing more in fabrication costs than a genuine Pick-Up.

[mini 100]

Why mini 100

 

because i really like people doing up minis shells 

[ToM 2012]

fair enuff lol if it starts going for stupid money then ile leave it.. 

[Guess-Works.com]

No one has mentioned that the pick-up, traveller and van are all longer than the saloon.

You would really need a body assembly jig to do the complete new & longer rear end and still ensure sub-frame alignment.

With the correct jig it is entirely feasible and I have a good friend who has such a jig. In fact he has just finished a complete re-build of a pick-up with only the bulkhead a d cab rear panel being retained from the original.

As above, a genuine pick-up has a high rarity value as a classic vehicle, but a converted later model shell with an IVA (assuming it could get one) would still be regarded as a hybrid despite it costing more in fabrication costs than a genuine Pick-Up.

 

I did try to explain from the off, that a pickup is different to a saloon from the A Pillar backwards, but I don't think he's grasped this at all....

[Cooperman]

 

No one has mentioned that the pick-up, traveller and van are all longer than the saloon.

You would really need a body assembly jig to do the complete new & longer rear end and still ensure sub-frame alignment.

With the correct jig it is entirely feasible and I have a good friend who has such a jig. In fact he has just finished a complete re-build of a pick-up with only the bulkhead a d cab rear panel being retained from the original.

As above, a genuine pick-up has a high rarity value as a classic vehicle, but a converted later model shell with an IVA (assuming it could get one) would still be regarded as a hybrid despite it costing more in fabrication costs than a genuine Pick-Up.

 

I did try to explain from the off, that a pickup is different to a saloon from the A Pillar backwards, but I don't think he's grasped this at all....

 

 

The first Pick-Up I restored, which needed a load bed and some minor repairs around the back of the tail-gate mountings, surprised me how different it was from all the other Minis. I guess a van could be 'pick-uped', but a van is valuable in its own right and the loss of value from the van would make it non-viable. 

I have a friend with a full jig who can build what is effectively a 'new' P-U shell from a real rusty one for c.£6000 in primer, but that's the best it's possible to get.

When I did my first one I thought of making it into a six-wheeled P-U by using 2 rear sub-frames with reinforcing between them to handle the bending stresses and then simply lengthening the load bed, sides and sill structure, suitable strengthened, but decided it would probably de-value the thing, so I didn't do it.

[mini 100]

got a photo

[RossKnight]

got a photo

 

Here's a photo of a banana

 

[mini 100]

got a photo

[ToM 2012]

ive only asked a simple question can a mini saloon be turned into a pickup i ask this question because i would like to give it ago if its possible if you no so much about where the problems are then i would like to know straight not saying your going to have problems at the a pillar if thats the only problem that would stop me then im not going to let it beat me i would look for the way around it.. the front doors will be mk3 doors not mk1. can i have some one tell me straight where all my problems would be and ways of getting around them? thankyou tom