Lol @ "man mountian"
Lol @ "man mountian"
Your A-Frames were made of match sticks....
.... i admit they could have been made with bigger section wood
Paul has now ordered all the metal for the chassis and should be coming to collect all the various bits on or around the weekend of the 18/19th, then it's all go for the frame
I'm hoping there will be lots of pics to show of various states of assembly.
Good luck, looks interesting
Paul can i assume your not coming on Sunday due to the weather or is it not too bad where you are?
I don't fancy lifting the body on this ice!
Yep! At the moment I'm coming, main roads here are not a problem, your tube is here tomorrow!
Roads are fine round here too.
I'll bring the pallet truck home then so we can roll them down the drive.
Ok, I will call you on saturday
Well let the fun commence
After the slight inconvenience that is Christmas and new year Paul finally came to pick most of the big bit's up today so a start can be made on the chassis and body metalwork.
After a couple of hours of shifting and moving stuff around we loaded the engine/box and wheels onto the back of his truck and got all the bodywork and suspension onto the car trailer.
(website currently not up and running but i'm sure it will be soon)
It's winging it's way as i type down to his workshop in Brackley and in roughly 10 days i should have most of the chassis complete and possibly some of the metalwork on the body done
At this point in time i'm extremely happy and can't wait to see the pics of the build progressing.
There are a few more details that we need to finalise but i believe the ground rules are in place.
It's not even my project and I'm getting excited by the progress
Tell me about it......
Yours and Nevilles heart's are in it though.
Also very interested, well done on getting this far in this amount of time.
Excellent, can't wait see it finnished
Cool project.
Subscribing.
Chassis work begins
It's all still in the mockup stage but on the table
I'm not surprised by the rust on the subframes and hubs as they were on Neville for a good few years and have been sat under covers for 12 months.Originally Posted by Paul @ Twisted
Last edited by Easy007; 06-02-2010 at 22:22.
Hell yes, this is going to be amazing!
Another update from Paul.
The cab is now braced a little so Paul can start chopping it about. As you can see some metal has been cut to allow tubes to be passed through for more mocking up. The tunnel has been chopped to allow room for the engine and box but i'm fairly sure more will have to come out when the bodydrop happens.
The chassis design we have opted for is a backbone type. This is the first basic draft but there are a lot more tubes to be added in for suspension pickup points at the back and body mounts etc . Paul is using tubes as opposed to box section as it allows for a more neatly packaged frame and mean that the bodydrop won't have to be as severe as if box section was used. More importantly, will look ace!
Now to turn this into that
a few cuts, bends and notches and it's begun
Paul's also chopped the Terrano arches out of the quarters i had and clecco'd them to the bed sides to see what will need doing there.
Last edited by Easy007; 16-01-2010 at 11:30.
I'm really impressed with the speed this is coming together with mate,
Keep up the good work, it looks excellent
TBH it's been about 18 months in the planning but it only just got round to the interesting bit's
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