Sold Stanky's Geep - fire sale

[richardthestag]

one like each for that seems so inadequate.

[garethj]

If you sold the running gear for cash money, you could put a Suzuki SJ chassis under it and have a much easier job with the DVLA.

 

Win-win

[Junkman]

Like my gran would have said - the 'new' hasn't rubbed off it yet.

[Guest Hooli]

  On 03/12/2017 at 16:56, Junkman said:

Like my gran would have said - the 'new' hasn't rubbed off it yet.

 

Exactly, it's not even rusty!

 

 

 

 

 

(I know)

[anonymous user]

  On 03/12/2017 at 16:55, garethj said:

If you sold the running gear for cash money, you could put a Morris Minor Van chassis under it and have a much easier job with the DVLA.

 

Win-win

EFA

[DodgeRover]

Erm what happened to the escort van vin and plates?

 

I have seen many of these running about not on Qs / does it come with any if from the donor at all.

 

Anyway well bought - if you don't have it I will

[Stanky]

So, I was wrong - the 'kit' comprises a glassfibre body and box-section chassis, to which you fit various parts - suspension, engine, axles, brakes, some lights, gearbox from an escort and then a smattering of other bits from other vehicles. So its not a rebodied escort (and this is why it has to be SVA's and Q-plated).

 

Or can be left unregistered and driven off the public highway as required.

[DeeJay]

Why does everybody go on about Q plates?

It's free, fix it up and enjoy.

[junkyarddog]

That is epic!!!!

 

I hope you give the guy a bottle or two when you go back for it 

[Stanky]

Absolutely! I'll get him a slab of beer to say thanks and if i can get it running and moving I'll take him for a ride around in it as well.

[John F]

It's a Jago Jeep. A  FREE one, in Swimming Pool Blue.

 

A 'Q' plate would only add to what is already a metric shit-ton of win.

[Dave_Q]

Had a google about these things and it seems that the chassis is given a Jago chassis number which is apparently on the front suspension strut mount.

 

I reckon the thing to do, once you've got it home like, is to see if it's got a chassis number and get a tame shiter to run the chassis number through HPI - apparently some of these things were registered as Jago on the logbook with an age related plate.

 

If is has been registered in the past then you could be on your way with a £25 duplicate V5.

 

If nothing comes up then you will have to go through SVA, but it sounds like that will be your main cost, give or take a sheet of plywood and a few odd bits.

[bezzabsa]

just need to price up the hard top now!!!

[Supernaut]

Bloody hell. That's incredibly tidy-looking, especially considering the price!

 

I was expecting an utterly fucked old heap, instead that looks absolutely mint apart from the (easily replaced) ply floor. You massive, massive WINNAR!

 

[Guest Hooli]

  On 03/12/2017 at 17:28, bezzabsa said:

just need to price up the making a hardtop from plywood now!!!

 

EFA(S)

[320touring]

YAAAASSSS!

[Pillock]

Honestly, I don't see the stigma with a Q plate on one of these.

If it was a BMW X5 that you were trying to sell on for full retail price then yeah, a massive warning sign. But this is clearly what they had a picture of on the wall in the DVLA office when they dreamed up the Q plate regulations. Part and parcel.

 

It's free, so with a bit of sensible finishing (like, I dunno, a floor made out of something that doesn't soak up water like a sponge) this could be the win of the year. It looks in really good nick, I've only just caught this thread so I read page one and mentally pictures something that looked like it had been in the bottom of a lake, or used as a shed. Get it finished.

 

Interesting thoughts on how to make it 4x4 though. I wonder if anything could donate running gear that hasn't got massive scene tax applied - a Justy perhaps?

[hairnet]

  On 02/12/2017 at 20:01, Stanky said:

Right, shit. Just semi committed to this (and am nursing a semi over it) so now need to go home and tell the wife. The same one who said absolutely no more cars ever on pain of death.

 

Off to the shops to get chocolates and flowers!

 

I got back home and gave her the chocs and flowers and told her she deserved nice things and why don't we go out for dinner soon maybe. She gave me the 'what are you planning' look. I fessed up and told her an unmissable business opportunity had arisen. I showed her a pic of a (amazingly well) finished one. To my utter astonishment the answer was

 

"Wow, really, free? I really like them! Go get it, you deserve a treat. Plus when its finished we can all go out in it"

 

I then pinched myself so hard I've got a blood blister on my arm and potentially bone damage

 

"Can you just say that once more, while I record it please darling?"

 

"Go on, how bad can it be? You can always scrap it if its fucked"

 

 

 

keeper

 

marry her again cos keeper

 

ROFL at the newsagent pics

 

 

 

 

[hairnet]

  On 03/12/2017 at 17:34, Pillock said:

 

Interesting thoughts on how to make it 4x4 though. I wonder if anything could donate running gear that hasn't got massive scene tax applied - a Justy perhaps?

panda sisley

[D Spares & Tyres]

  On 03/12/2017 at 17:24, Dave_Q said:

Had a google about these things and it seems that the chassis is given a Jago chassis number which is apparently on the front suspension strut mount.

 

I reckon the thing to do, once you've got it home like, is to see if it's got a chassis number and get a tame shiter to run the chassis number through HPI - apparently some of these things were registered as Jago on the logbook with an age related plate.

 

If is has been registered in the past then you could be on your way with a £25 duplicate V5.

 

If nothing comes up then you will have to go through SVA, but it sounds like that will be your main cost, give or take a sheet of plywood and a few odd bits.

Agree apart from the SVA bit, you really don't want to be going that route. Plenty of knackered kit cars turn up on eBay for pennies that could donate their ID. Sounds dodgy but nobody will know or care. Well apart from us lot.

[Twiggy]

I was expecting a collection thread involving brushes and buckets. Instead it looks good enough to take pride of place in the autoshite showroom of dreams..............

 

Well done Sir !

[Jim Bergerac]

It's not SVA anymore, it's IVA which is a lot more stringent. Suspect it would be difficult to get through if the Jago hasn't been registered already.

[dome]

  On 03/12/2017 at 18:52, Sandie said:

It's not SVA anymore, it's IVA which is a lot more stringent. Suspect it would be difficult to get through if the Jago hasn't been registered already.

This I'm afraid. I suspect that is one reason it was free-the build probably started when an SVA was needed but now it needs an IVA it's a lot more difficult.

 

Still, free!

[Stanky]

Task 1 will be to get it running under its own power and stopping again. Then i can look at options for how to proceed with getting it on the road.

 

Was your locost (?) already registered when you got it?

[dollywobbler]

That's amazing! Though your Renault 5 indicators are Renault 4, and presumably the VW T2 "windscreen" is actually the tailgate glass, in which case it may not be laminated...

[BorniteIdentity]

As the very reverend denim has already posted, you’re sat on a good amount here from the get go. This is a proper result, no doubt.

 

Well played!

[dome]

  On 03/12/2017 at 19:26, Stanky said:

Was your locost (?) already registered when you got it?

Aye, it'd been SVAd when built in 2005. It's on a Q plate which makes life easy come MOT time too.

[FakeConcern]

That looks great! Well done for saving it.

 

By the way I went to the Portsmouth Historic yard and all around The Victory and up the Spinnaker Tower a couple of weeks ago & well worth it!

[eddyramrod]

I said it before and I'm saying it again, louder.

 

WIINNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!

[quicksilver]

Very well played sir. "Kit car free to good home" would scare most folks away with visions of abandoned, half-built, badly thrown together heaps that have no hope of ever seeing the road so to get something almost roadworthy is a right result. I don't see any way you can lose with this even if you break it but it looks too good for that.