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[bpirie1000]

found another of your creations.

[dave21478]

AHA! blast from the past! thats fantastic chief, I didnt think there were any photos of that van shell.
It was pretty solid actually, from what I remember - most of the hard work had been done already. I sold it on for £50 or something stupid like that - what a f4nny

My wee black Turbo too - that car was ace. Remember when we stripped the back seats out, boarded it out with MDF and expanding foam and wanged a massive sub in the back?


What are your plans for the latest one?


Remember that fud way out in the middle of nowhere with the ex fire service pickup an a van shell we looked at buying? I wonder what ever happened to them after we got gazumped?

Edited by dave21478, 22 August 2009 - 12:38 PM.

[bpirie1000]

What are your plans for the latest one?


Remember that fud way out in the middle of nowhere with the ex fire service pickup an a van shell we looked at buying? I wonder what ever happened to them after we got gazumped?

Plans for the Mk1 are just to get it back on the road then play for a while ....

Dave I bought that van and pick up from the boy in the middle of no where. Did that before the MK1

Got a better deal it is actually on the road. But the Pick up was boogered when we looked at it really........

[dave21478]

Got the van up and running pretty nicely.

Here is the video...



For some reason my phone makes a metro engine sound like a `charged V8.

Edited by dave21478, 24 August 2009 - 08:15 PM.

[bpirie1000]

dave dave dave

stop stop stop

You've put the steering wheel on the wrong side................

[dave21478]

new tyres and alloys finally painted.








I tries them body coloured centres and it looked ok-ish, I then tried cream rims and it looked gash, so back to basics - black centres and polished (ish) rims.

[mrmoo]

Just read this thread from start to finish, amazing work, I love vans, this one is something special, you should be proud of it.

[dave21478]

I had ordered rebuild kits for the brake and clutch master cylinders bloody ages ago. The minisport were out of stock so that delayed them a bit, plus I had them sent to my sister who was to forward them to me here in France to avoid their extortionate international postage rates. The useless *woman of ill repute* then forgot to send them to me, so that was another couple of weeks lost. Never mind, they arrived today.....
But they are not the right parts.

Dunno....its not as if there are a million variants of mini master cylinders, I definately ordered the right ones - yellow tag dual circuit for the brakes and there is only 1 option for the metal style clutch cylinder, but the seals are far too small. Neither one works worth a *melon*. This afternoon was spent fruitlessly *peeing* about assembling, dismantling, fitting, trying, dismantling, trying mixtures of old and new seals.... for the second time during this project, I got a proper rage on, and launched the lot out the garage door. All the cylinder internals are now scattered across the yard, so thats it proper *melonsed*.

"*drunk* off" doesnt even come close. *melonsing* wrong bits, *melonsing* useless, lazy sister, needless delays....im so angry with it i can hardly think straight.

[dave21478]

took some photos though. First time its seen sunlight for a long time.

[dave21478]

Not much to report. I rinsed the dust off and thats about it.




My new brake master cylinder turned up today, so I should get that fitted tomorrow and hopefully get a proper test-drive in it.
There is also a pretty big autojumble on saturday not too far away, so hopefully I can pick up a pair of wing mirrors and a few other bits n bobs to finish it off.

[dave21478]

The engine wont run for more than 10 minutes a a time beore no3 sparkplug oils up and stops firing.
I will do a comprssion test tomorrow but its not looking good.

[dave21478]

got it running ok.
fitted some wing mirrors.
done nothing else at all.
cant be bothered with it.
will CT it fairly soon (french mot)
will then sell it.
cant be *melonsed*. full stop.

Edited by dave21478, 03 November 2009 - 10:04 PM.

[xBR4DLEY]

I have just read through your thread and it is one of the few I have read all of
I dont think you should sell it as it took all that time and money

[freaker]

how much are you gonna ask for it ?
you can tell it in euros as i also live on the euro side...

freaker

[picknmixminis]

This van is awesome great work. Can't believe the amount of effort it must have taken. Good job. Revive more minis!