kinkersaab Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 Been sat 4evar. Slowly being robbed for bits, today seemed like a good day to drive it again. Lacquer Peel, trigger, DVee8 and 1 other 4
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 Why have you got the roof up? This is top down season. Bloody people who drive around with the top up on nice days. Junkman 1
Sigmund Fraud Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 Why have you got the roof up? This is top down season. Bloody people who drive around with the top up on nice days. I suspect it contributes significantly to the car's structural rigidity Eyersey1234 1
londonm Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 Only needs a bit of filler by this sites standards, get it MOT'd.
Richard Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 I'm pretty sure I've run cars with more metal missing, though perhaps not as visibly. I was once sitting outside a scrapyard when I heard a horrible grating noise approaching. It was a rotten Metro with four young lads aboard and it was scraping along the ground. Just before they got to the yard they hit a bump, the back end bounced up and allowed the rear subframe to complete the escape it had been attempting. The final part of the journey was completed with the arse dragging on the ground and the subframe being pulled along by the handbrake cables. I think that's the worst car I've seen that was still moving. It got better though. Another four lads were following in a Stanza, after spending the Metro money at the burger van they all piled into the Stanza, some of them in the boot, and drove off. Lacquer Peel 1
kinkersaab Posted June 29, 2013 Author Posted June 29, 2013 Thankfully the arse end will live on in another old 900, I was amazed at the strength and thickness of the construction of these things, little wonder they seem to last. The convertible unique parts will be removed for my good one and the rest scrapped, if anyone wants anything just yell.
catsinthewelder Posted June 29, 2013 Posted June 29, 2013 That Saab is a great start and is going to take some beating. Our Austin has some foot long holes cut in the floor and a subframe mounting in mid air and would probably still drive if I was daft enough to connect the battery and try, it's still taxed too.
Richard Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 In the days before H&S bus chassis were routinely delivered to the coachbuilder like this... Bristol bus chassis. by Fray Bentos, on Flickr I'm not 100% certain but I think that sometimes involved driving hundreds of miles.
daveb47 Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 My dad was a master coachbuilder working at page & scotts in mill road ColchesterHe mainly designed and built moblle libraries,but also one off factory trucks etc.have great memories of taking train with him up north somewhere and driving back on a lorry chassis of some sort,usually with me sitting on a box beside drivers seat,no seatbelts in those days.Similar to thisAll weathers as well,usually no windscreen or any other protection.just goggles & heavy clothing. etc.He also built the first pre production Riley RME roof.which was wood frame with leather covering. catsinthewelder 1
Slappy Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 In the days before H&S bus chassis were routinely delivered to the coachbuilder like this... <photo of bus chassis> I'm not 100% certain but I think that sometimes involved driving hundreds of miles. A lot of Bristols were sent like that from the factory to ECW in Lowestoft I think.
Junkman Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 0079-thumb-448x316-101219.jpg LHD! Britain indeed did export stuff back then. This method of delivery was obviously popular enough to justify the outlay of tooling up a model: Wilko220 and mk1_4dr 2
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