Humber FV1600 - ARN 105-819 - Restoration moves forward.

[Niels V]

It looks fantastic, great work

[Dave Mills]

Thanks for the feedback Niels, much appreciated.

Dave.

[pauldavies]

Looking good Dave, attention to detail is going to pay dividends later. C8 is coming along and will post some photo's in the next couple of weeks. Have a great Champ Camp and hope to attend next year so give all my regards.
Paul

[Dave Mills]

Get some pics of your vehicle up Paul we need to see your progress. Will pass on your regards to the Tassie champers.
Dave.

[Dave Mills]

A few shots of the newly painted Humber Tub, it will be fitted onto the chassis this Saturday if all goes to plan. A very happy camper indeed; three years of restoration finally coming to a conclusion.
Dave.

[Dave Mills]

The weekend went well, a couple of helpers, a forklift and the tub was fitted. Took all of 30 minutes.

The tub fitted like a glove, a few adjustments to the suspension heights on the vehicle and a short but very good road test. It felt so good to be able to drive it on the road.

After 3 years of restoration it is pleasing to see such a rare vehicle back on the road.

Problems along the way, the tail pipe hitting the mudflap, front torsion bars required adjusting (Was waiting for the weight of the tub before adjusting so no real surprise here) a small water leak from the radiator blow off valve and the rear winch control lever fitted upside down not bad considering we have completed a ground up restoration. The Rolls 6cyl purrs beautifully at 75Kph at 3500revs.

Dave.

[Niels V]

simply stunning

[Robert Sexton]

Originally Posted by Dave Mills

A few shots of the newly painted Humber Tub, it will be fitted onto the chassis this Saturday if all goes to plan. A very happy camper indeed; three years of restoration finally coming to a conclusion.
Dave.

Hello Dave , I am soon to source the tail/stop lights for my Humber,you seem to have ones that look just right. Where did they come from?.I also assume that you have added the indicators as a separate wiring issue?
Robert

[Dave Mills]

Hello back, the bases came as NOS from Russell at Stawell. I recall that Russell had a fairly large collecting of these and the glass screw on lenses from Tim at Winton. Tim had a dwindling stock of the smaller lenses, however, a lot of the rather large lenses that screw into the same base. The indicator wiring was placed into the new rear looms I made. The rear loom picks up about midway along the RH fuel tank on the inside of the chassis rail and runs to the rear from a junction block in steel conduit, this can be sourced in Ringwood from Vintage wiring harnesses if you want some, he sells it by the metre with the ferels for the ends. They also have the wiring pattern to produce the new front loom with indicator wires included as they made one for me from an old loom and have the pattern and wire lengths on record. If you go this way you will need to supply the push in wire ends. They also weave the outer cover on the looms, I also had the wires for an electric fuel pump placed in the loom along with the indicator wires. From memory the front loom cost around $680.

Also from Vintage wiring harnesses you can purchase the two pole centres for the Stop/Tail light as the NOS only come with a single pole centre unless of course you add two red lenses.

Are you going to remove the cab?

Hope this assists you Robert

Dave.