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Having put the engine and gearbox back on the chassis
I have achieved my
I am delighted.
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Tinworm
Lost a lot of hair since the project started!
Austin 101
Good grief! As I winched it on to the transporter, blokes standing around assumed I was taking it to be crushed!
The correct 101 face
Not mine, but mine will be similar
The Austin 101 Express Delivery Van (launched 1957)
Pit Crew
John, Me, Carl and Paul (from left)...the day we got the van into a plot of land next to my workshop, having towed it from John's and then manoeuvred it through two gardens because I don't have road access!
Carl and John, who towed me.
Colin Smith - B Series Engine Guru
"Specials"
Morris sold the chassis and scuttles to commercial users to be coach-built as ambulances, butchers' shops, mobile snack bars, ice-cream vans and, like mine, milk-floats.
copyright of Harvey Pitcher
copyright of Harvey Pitcher
Mine will have looked a lot like the milkfloat above, once.... Except, of course, this is a JB, not a 101.
The Coachbuilder's Autograph
A highlight of the restoration - the discovery of the coachbuilder's autograph in pencil on an upright in the cab, when I stripped some aluminium skin off.
2 comments:
Looking good. Keep up the good work. I too haven't done much work on my JB van, but have just sent the springs off for repair at Brost Forge. Andy
Thanks Andy.
You may have seen that Brost gave me a quote, but in the end mine were done by Carl Jones:
http://tinworm.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/photos-from-carl-jones-leafspring.html
Best of luck with it. It isn't cheap getting them forged, but we are going to have a quality ride! I wasted ages dismantling and cleaning the old leaves, only then to abandon them. But I have no regrets.
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