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Looking forward to the day your Retriever is out on the road are you intending to fit a GS body or something a bit more dramatic, its looking good at this stageLooking forward to the day your Retriever is out on the road are you intending to fit a GS body or something a bit more dramatic, its looking good at this stage[/Looking forward to the day your Retriever is out on the road are you intending to fit a GS body or something a bit more dramatic, its looking good at this stage
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Thanks Les
This restoration is something of a labour of love and has no real end date. As to whether I ever put the truck on the road is always a subject of debate in the OCMPG, there are those who say I should and those who say I should only if they are in front !!.
The truth is the roads are very congested here in the south of England with an average traffic speed of around 60mph on most roads outside of built up areas it means the Retriever at around 25mph would be a bit of a traffic hazard. I may well just love it and pat it and perhaps take it to the odd show on a transporter.
The sad truth is most MV enthusiasts wouldn't know what it was if it ran over them, it's not a jeep or Land Rover and isn't a GMC or tank so not much interest I fear, the public care even less, unless they were behind me in which case they gladly try to run me off the road and have me prosecuted for holding up the traffic.
Rant over,
Now, as to the body, I'm going to build a mobile workshop (machinery Mk3) from scratch I had the luck to measure and photograph one and made a set of constructional drawings that I can work from.
That is unless someone has one lying around that they don’t want ??
Pete