Scrubworks Fleet: 1993 Mitsubishi Pajero 2.5 SWB

[Scrubworks]

4 hours ago, MrBig said:

Anyway, I shall be following this with interest. Always had a soft spot for these, and growing up South Bucks there were a lot of these around (as has already been mentioned). The rust scares me off having one nowadays, but it sounds like @Scrubworks has the skills to eliminate such fears.

Thinking about it I'm pretty sure a couple of teachers at my school had them too, although they weren't as nice as Mrs Frost's Oak Green Mk2 16v Golf GTi 😁

Bodywork/welding skills only get you so far. You need to accept the Sisyphean drudgery of cutting, welding, cutting again, lying on your back, ruining your clothes with weld spatter, arsing about with primer, paint, filler, and all the rest of it. I'm well beyond that point 😛. I've been finding this much easier to do bodywork on than a normal car, because by its nature as a body-on-chassis 4x4, it has significantly more ground clearance and space under the body.

As for advertising your work, if you guys make quality shit for a decent price, especially if you're a domestic firm, then absolutely let us know you're open for business. The two main barriers to keeping stuff like this on the road are being arsed to fix them, and getting the right parts. Without parts available I have to resort to adapting more readily-available stuff, or paying to have things custom made. OEM genuine parts if they're available are great, as I can be assured of quality and fitment, but if there's viable cheaper aftermarket alternatives I am 100% for that.