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[dollywobbler]

More to the point what difference will it make to UK logbook and vin plate kit values , I'd be very surprised if any of these go on the road with SVA or end up on Q plates.

 

If it's a brand new shell, there's no need for SVA or Q plate. Witness MGBs and Minis with Heritage shells. If it's a refurbed second-hand shell, then yes, Q plate should apply.

[eddyramrod]

I would still like a cooking spec mk2 one day.

You really wouldn't, they were horrible.  I had two while I was on my L plates, these were new cars and they left a nasty taste behind.

[dollywobbler]

Anyway. It looks like I'm buying TWO Volvos tomorrow. One for Pandamonium, which I'll drive from Wales to Englandcestershire, then my own, which is in St Albans. What could possibly go wrong?

[tooSavvy]

Ex's Pa had a Motibility/WarVet 1.1pop.

 

He kept the tank brimmed 24/7 and as time passed he said to me he had a 'creak..crikk' coming from the boot. His man with the oily rag couldn't sort it so I had a peep - where the tank bolts to the boot hinge/body strenghening web he had a 1.5" crack... I drilled a 1/8th hole at the root & bent the split a bit. SORTED

 

TS

[AlabamaShrimp]

So it seems they are selling Mk2 body shells now, as well as other panels, this along with all the South African imports at the moment, I wonder what affect it will have on the prices of the genuine GB cars?.

 

 

 

 

 

I've honestly never understood this resell thing,to me it makes it a totally diffrent/new car.

 

If these are new who's making them and can they do anything or are they old ones stripped and fixed up?

[fordperv]

They are new made in China iirc the person behind it took a Mk1 and mk2 shell over so they could get picked apart measured etc and tooling made, there's a few threads on passionford about it

[dollywobbler]

Today, I had some fun with this. Can't tell you much more about why yet but it amused me that when the bloke bought it in 1995, he dragged it home using a Mk2 Astra estate! From Sussex to Cardiff!

[HMC]

^ crikey, bet that was nerve wracking!

[Alexg]

At least those MK2 shells should stop some thicko butchering one of the last few boggo spec 2 doors.

[vulgalour]

Mike told me someone wanted him to source a Capri 3.0S for £2000-3000.  Apparently this was also requested with a straight face and the reasonable offer that it didn't have to be a runner and Mike could restore it for him.  Of course said punter used to have one, everybody who had a Capri had the 3.0S.

[AlabamaShrimp]

They are new made in China iirc the person behind it took a Mk1 and mk2 shell over so they could get picked apart measured etc and tooling made, there's a few threads on passionford about it

Sorry think I read it wrong and thought the shells were from South Africa as well. I read about the thing in China the other week.

[fordperv]

Oh the amount of people that used to come and talk to me about my Capri but they had a 3.0s, i had a few people that came and told me about their 1.3 and 1.6 models

[MarvinsMom]

i dunno about other shitters, but i don't think that the prices of those panels are excessive.

 

my other half had, back in the day, a 2 door escrot sport, rubber mats and no carpets,

 

oh and it was as rotten as a pear!

 

god alone knows what one would be worth today.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

If it's a brand new shell, there's no need for SVA or Q plate. Witness MGBs and Minis with Heritage shells. If it's a refurbed second-hand shell, then yes, Q plate should apply.

You're obviously a lot less cynical than me. I don't believe any of these will be used to re-shell an actual physical existing car. But will rather have all the best bits thrown at them to create a new* car, this will include the best( read one that will make it most valuable) logbook available. Legally one of these shells with a used engine,axles etc , no matter how well rebuilt will be essentially a kit car.

[captain_70s]

A Mk2 Escort popped up at the side of the road a few towns away from me. Well, most of one. It's a beige two door with various panels missing, it's sat on the pavement under a car cover, have to wonder how long it'll stay there before vanishing overnight...

[doobietoo]

Driving towards Plymouth today from Darzet I saw a silver DB5 going the other way.... the registration plate was 008

 

Normally I dislike things like this but this did make me smile....

[danthecapriman]

i dunno about other shitters, but i don't think that the prices of those panels are excessive.

 

my other half had, back in the day, a 2 door escrot sport, rubber mats and no carpets,

 

oh and it was as rotten as a pear!

 

god alone knows what one would be worth today.

I don't think the prices are bad at all. Of course if they are made in China I wonder what the quality and fit are like? Maybe they are cheap for a reason?

I needed a pair of front wings for my mk2 Capri and they aren't available new. I managed to find a pair of new old stock genuine Ford ones in the end but had to cough up a shit load of cash for them. Way way more than those Escort ones.

Either way, I really hope they start stamping out new panels for other Fords too.

[AlabamaShrimp]

Me too I really need a boot floor for my mk1 fiesta. It's listed on loads of sites but non actually have them

[captain_70s]

I don't think the prices are bad at all. Of course if they are made in China I wonder what the quality and fit are like? Maybe they are cheap for a reason?

You seem to be implying the steel quality and panel fit of mid-70s economy cars was good in the first place...

[danthecapriman]

You seem to be implying the steel quality and panel fit of mid-70s economy cars was good in the first place...

That's a good point!

[Pillock]

Chinese factories can make some horribly awful products.

Chinese factories can also, if you pay them more, make some beautiful things.

[MarvinsMom]

and the low grade monkey metal that come from recycled chinese baked bean tins has to be seen to be belived.

 

a friend is rebuilding a 1971 camaro z28, and to get the project moving he bought (a very expensive) so called genuine wing.

 

it wasn't. it was chinese and it was utter, utter crap.

 

they kinda looked like a z28's wing, and that was about it. they certainly did not fit at all. no seriously, these flippin things did not fit. 

 

bolt hole, swage lines, they were all comically out of place!

 

so bad in fact that the replacement wing ended up been chopped up to repair the original ones.

[danthecapriman]

I've had a new Chinese wing before that was ok to look at but was in fact too small to ever fit. There was no way it could be made to fit onto the car unless you cut in half along it's length and welded in another strip of metal.

I've also had new sills that were completely the wrong shape, rendering them completely unusable.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Some of the brass that is coming in from China is magnetic.....

[diesel=ambrosia]

Just sunburnt my forehead playing with my mig welder. Lesson learnt won't be doing that again.

 

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[andy18s]

I use an awful lot of CDS tube at work

27mm,2mm wall and lovely to form and weld up and nicely coated in anti-corrosion gunge

Just had a bundle delivered from a different supplier

It's shite....o/d varying by as much as 3mm over a 5 metre length,thickness all over the shop and has an almost polished appearance

And it's a complete ball-ache to weld,,,,,Blowing holes in it left/right and centre.it warps with the slightest bit of heat,and it holds the spatter like shit to a blanket which means twice as long to clean up with the linisher....

Guess where it's from ?

[MarvinsMom]

is it imported from the orient?

 

i do hope so, for all our sakes....

[Lord Sterling]

Last night (well, a few hours ago now) a mate of mine phoned to say he'd crashed in Kidderminster whilst trying to drop his mate off who lived in Kidderminster. My mate was going to come to chez_Mo but obviously that didn't happen.

 

I arrived after leaving my nicely warm abode to go out in the dark woods in the wilds of Kidderminster. I arrived to find my mates '07 Suzuki Swift in the middle of a dark country lane with one wheel hanging off, as I pulled up ai instantly knew it was balljoint failure time.

 

So, they're in the middle of a very dark country road and the wheel fallen off... oh dear...

 

First thing I did was try to start the Suzuki, it wouldn't start, suspected battery problem. I hooked it up to the Sterling...nowt...

 

Ok, we need to get this car to one side of the road as it's causing some problems for passing motorists who are having to use the now muddy grassy bit to pass by. It's amazing how many cars suddenly appear when a road is blocked for whatever reason, ask me how I know...

 

So, the Sterling is put into 'moving mule' mode, pushing the Suzuki back and forth until it is safely on one side of the road, it also provides emergency lighting for approaching motorists and warmth for myself and the occupents of Suzuki.

 

As my mate is a new driver (he only passed his test last week) all this roadside recovery malarky is new to him. He can't seem to make heads of tails of the RAC call centre, to me it's nowt more than just answering questions, holding firm with your story and making sure the call centre understand the problem. The problem is, my mate had already called them and whatever he told them, the call centre think he'd had an RTA (as in; with another car/object) I had to put them straight. Eventually an RAC van was called out and he was with us within 5/10 minutes. Balljoint failure was diagnosed and a recovery truck was called out. Mates Suzuki didn't get the flatbed treatment my cars do, but it was recovered and taken to garage, I talked my mate through where the car needed to be set down (I know the garage, it's Mahmouds) and where the keys need to be posted.

 

The little Suzuki will fight to see another day!

[fred]

With a mate like Lord Sterling - you cant go wrong - Hope you Buddies car gets sorted

 

Well done that man

[Vin]

Spoke to her this morning. There is damage to the Fabia, so through her insurance it is. LV rang me this morning offering me repairs and hire cars and whatnot... I said I would prefer to sort it myself, so they are going to do me a 'cash in lieu' settlement if I send them a quote to get it sorted. My friend with the restoration business has said he will do that for me...

 

So looks it all should be OK.

 

 

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I got rear ended (Ooohh err missus... ) on the way home from work last night...

 

I was about to move away from a roundabout when I got booted up the arse by a Skoda Fabia. 'I thought you'd already gone'...well I hadn't.

 

She admitted liability and I have all her details. I've agreed to give her a quote to get it sorted between ourselves. We shall see what happens...

 

 

I have received a cheque from her insurers (LV) for a 3 figure sum that will cover the replacement panels, painting and my inconvenience...

 

RESULT :-D