1975 MK1 V8

[Guy88]

as i picked her up, not running











pressure washed off all the loose bits, chassis is solid, originally a camper but had a cab back welded in

Chassis has been cut to accept spec, i have all the bits that were cut out to fit strait back in,

Front wings are good, doors solid, bottom of B pillars gone, cab back needs finishing, floor and steps good, inner sills need plating,

Rover V8 from P6/SD1 is not running, the stupid OPUS ignition in dizzy has shorted to ground so have ordered a powerspark kit, will pull engine once its running to clean and paint bay, auto box is very clean and doesnt look old

anyone want to guess how much she cost me??

[karl]

mmmmm hard to say £

[Mr RVM]

I reckon you got it for nowt

[BigMonty]

I reckon you got it for nowt

I'm with Gaz here. Shrewd man that Guy88

[blue estate]

I reckon you got it for nowt

I'm with Gaz here. Shrewd man that Guy88

A lot less than his short block for the 200ps

[BigMonty]

Couldn't imagine all the back tyres BJT would get throu in this, trying to impress the fat birds outside Grimsby Aldis.

Seriously this would be one of my dream trucks. A Mk 1 pickup with a V8. That is just way cool

[Guy88]

not quite free, i could easily make my money back selling parts off it thou

[jolly olly]

£200 ?

[MinorMatt]

More than my red van cost me...

[FredTransit]

A tyre shredder! Love it. Gawd knows why somebody thought they would fit a spec. What would it lift/legally move?

[Guy88]

fitted new dizzy, added fuel and she fired strait up

However it wont run off of choke yet,

Gear box doesnt seem to be changing gear so looks like a manual conversion will be happening

Going to pull engine and box out, replace cam and lifters and fit a 4 barrell conversion

will be attacking the chassis and cab with the sandblaster too

[rodney]

this looks like its going to be an awesome project,.

[jay]

Couldn't imagine all the back tyres BJT would get throu in this, trying to impress the fat birds outside Grimsby Aldis.

Seriously this would be one of my dream trucks. A Mk 1 pickup with a V8. That is just way cool

be even better with a mk1 V8 spec lift..even if not used for work would still look and sound nice..I nearly did buy a mk5 spec lift years ago with a rover B8 in it only reason i never did was because chassis was broken,always fancied a spec lift with a big burbling V8 proberbly got that from cannonball run where there is a nice v8 big block spec lift

[Guy88]

Supprisingly all the bolts came undone and only found 2 rust holes.

Will move onto interior tomorrow



Getting quite a fleet now

[Guy88]

windscreen out, loom out,

Found rust on the O/S inner wing, hopefully i can do it without taking wing off,

Interior and rest of glass out, then blasting can begine