DUNE BUGGY

[Baloo]

wow excellent, and go as far off track as you like,
now is that a pop or a prefect i always get the 2 mixed up, a pop has been on my wish list for a long time to the point in fact i went to old ford parts in bracknell and bought a complete fiberglass body for one, which now resides upstairs in the barn with a 32 ford roadster body and several other "to do " projects, my pop body will go onto a vitara chassis of course lol, if only because i have a vitara that has the reg MY53POP

sort of just had to be really dident it lol
anyway back to yours it looks just perfect to me nice nice project, if you ever need an engine for it for any reason i have 2 of them in the container your welcome to 1 im sure i wont ever use them they were for my pop but will probably go jag or rover

do you have a biuld thread anywhere ?

 

[Morris]

It's a '53 Pop which had the dodgiest registration ever. It's wifey's and when I started the rebuild far too many years ago I couldn't give it back knowing it could be pulled off the road by DVLA so BIVA it was, bullet proof then.

Wifey's Ford Pop hot rod. | Retro Rides

I've been here for a while so I thought it's about time I put a project up. My wife bought this about 13 years ago and ran it for a couple of years. It's a Ford pop built on a Triumph Herald chassi

forum.retro-rides.org

 

[Baloo]

thank you will have a read later today

 

[Morris]

thank you will have a read later today

Apologies in advance, the early photos are Photobucket and spoilt with a watermark.

 

[Baloo]

well the forklift made it to my workshop with no issues from deepest wales, its as described the forks go up and down but it wont drive, it throws a C28 code will do some delving into that, but if i cant be fixed its not a problem i can push it to where i want it to live and then just use for lifting the chassis up and down might make a spit attachment so i can rotate the chassis to paint, fix brake lines etc

it goes up 3.5m and lifts 1200kg will do me

 

[Nomad]

Nice to see some out-of-the-box thinking, top marks for the lift !

I've seen at least 2 threads on here in the past few months asking for help with forklifts, maybe try search then ask if anyone has any suggestions or useful contact numbers? @fizzy

 

[Gritineye]

yep the 3 photos they have asked for and only that

Re number plate on original car, Photoshop is your friend.

 

[Baloo]

This. Sorry for the o/t diversion.
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i was looking for something on my laptop and stumbled across these, my pop body shell and ford V8 for motivation

not sure where these are on my "to do" list

 

[Baloo]

Re number plate on original car, Photoshop is your friend.

i want to be 100% cosha and have a full working driving car with id, should be no problems

 

[Morris]

i was looking for something on my laptop and stumbled across these, my pop body shell and ford V8 for motivation
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not sure where these are on my "to do" list

They should be on my "to do" list
I've wanted to recreate this Pop I built in the 80's for a long time. 351 Clevelands are hard to find and expensive now though

 

[Morris]

Just searched and found this on Rods'n'Sods.

 

[Baloo]

They should be on my "to do" list
I've wanted to recreate this Pop I built in the 80's for a long time. 351 Clevelands are hard to find and expensive now though
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it is on my to do list i just dont know where abouts it ranks at the moment

 

[Baloo]

Just searched and found this on Rods'n'Sods.

and very nice. red would be my colour of choice

 

[Baloo]

ive been working on the vitara version today, cut 6" out of one side and 5" out the other to get it the right wheelbase as to fit on the vitara chassis anyway it seems to fit on ok might try and glass it back up tomorrow

ive attached a bit of 40 x 40 box across the strut towers to give me a datum to square it all up from needs something simalar at the rear then should be all good to flip it over and glass it all back together

 

[Baloo]

right where we at then, well the vitara based one is working out ok and i think it will all be fine and dandy
ive cut 6" out of the wheelbase of the body to get the wheels in the middle of the arches, front still needs to go down a bit to close the wheel arch gap up a bit,

ive got the body sides clamped in place with metal strap on the top and 3/4" ply on the sides until its all glassed back together

i dont know if its a particularly poor body or if fiberglass moves over time but the profile of each side was very different

dosent really matter as you wont know once its glassed back together

at the back there was a ruddy great hole where the air cooled engine once hung out so i need to make a panel to close that off

i also need it to come down further to hide the rear of my chassis, so i found a piece of plastic that would bend to the right curve and fixed that on the back so i could apply several layer of fiberglass to create a mould from which i can produce a back panel

so this one is progressing well with no hurdles in sight yet
not so with the disco one

 

[Baloo]

so the disco 3 one, the centre section of the chassis is to high its pushing the body up giving me stupid wheel arch gaps
i could cut the centre section out of the chassis out and drop in down 6" but im not sure i like that idea , or it look like the body will slide down over the chassis so as the chassis is in the cab with you but might make the width internally to narrow for the seats but impressive side impact protection, will ponder this a bit more, or 3rd option dont use the disco chassis and make one from scratch out of 4"x2" box section that mirrors the floor pan of the jag and use all the running gear off the jag

 

[Wildefalcon]

Fit stupid big wheels!!!

 

[Wildefalcon]

It is a dune buggy, after all.

Or. A little bit of all three, cut the outer chassis rail and drop. You've ditched a tonne of body work, you don't need the strength, so long as you fit rigidity back.

 

[Baloo]

stupid big wheels seem mandatory on a dune buggy so consider it done
and ive just sat and looked at it with a cuppa tea and jaffa cakes and it dont seem so bad now
i will trim some of the buggy body and i think it will drop down over the chassis perhaps even below the chassis so your backside is 2 or 3" below the bottom of the chassis, it will all depend on if the seats fit in , i have some out of a smart roadster which were the narrowest i could find

 

[Baloo]

so for the landrover boffins out there if i wanted to keep it 4wd is there an disco 3 transfer box that would bolt up to the zf autobox that would be in a p38 RR, i assume disco 3's did come with a V8 petrol, if so which engine l guess it wasent the rover V8 as in classic and P38 ?
i have this engine and box and if i could make it centre rear output it might be an option ?