1971 Pick up project
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1971 Pick up project
After spending a very long time thinking about buying a Minor i finally took the dive.
Its a 1971 pickup. It needs a bit of welding and bodywork doing but the chassis looks very solid.
Thoughts and opinions please!
Its a 1971 pickup. It needs a bit of welding and bodywork doing but the chassis looks very solid.
Thoughts and opinions please!
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pick up!!!!!!!!
Very nice!!!!
Pick-ups are without doubt the best looking of all the Minors, very practical and in some areas easier to work on.
Pick-ups are without doubt the best looking of all the Minors, very practical and in some areas easier to work on.
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having a good size garage helps - especially in wet winter months
and thanks for the picktures- I've got a nearly identical garage door and your lock bars have given me an idea of how to improve mine
and thanks for the picktures- I've got a nearly identical garage door and your lock bars have given me an idea of how to improve mine
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Jan 06: The Minor SII Africa adventure: http://www.minor-detour.com
Oct 06: back from Dresden with my Trabant 601 Kombi
Jan 07: back from a month thru North Africa (via Timbuktu) in a S3 Landy
June 07 - back from Zwickau Trabi Treffen
Aug 07 & Aug 08 - back from the Lands End to Orkney in 71 pickup
Sept 2010 - finally gave up breaking down in a SII Landy...
where to break down next?
2013... managed to seize my 1275 just by driving it round the block
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Your welcomerayofleamington wrote: and thanks for the picktures- I've got a nearly identical garage door and your lock bars have given me an idea of how to improve mine
Update done a bit of cleaning
Sills look promising aswell!
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Great views, really fascinating to watch your progress, may I suggest a reduction in image size to around 600 pixels wide, thats a bang on size for this forum, you can see the whole image without using the space bar to track across the image area. sorry if thats being piccy, no pun intended. great progress,keep the images coming it makes educational viewing.
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Wow! excellent progress, you're not hanging around on this. I'm worried about your rear cross piece, could you support it its full width with a piece of long timber, only mine was bent upward by too much weight at one point, Nice to see the before and after shots.
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Thanks would be doing alot more if I'd found a welder to buy lol. Yeh I only had it supported like that for painting. I have supports on both sides via stands normally. Don't think it will bend over two days. Plus with it being an empty chassis with no sprung weight I doubt it would flex. I can lift it with 2 fingers
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There's nothing like that sense of satisfaction when you go from rusty , through bare metal to smooth shiney painted parts. I'd better get a move on, not sure I'll make a show next summer though, I plan on slowing down through the cold winter months, my garage is way to small.
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