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Oldyellar



Member Since: 04 Sep 2015
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Scotland 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Corris Grey
Any love for my Smiley
Though I'd share my latest project with you guys. A

It's a 99 t reg transit "smiley front" chassis cab 2.5 di diesel, I'm going to but a new tipper rear on it.
It spent its life in stanstead airport and only covered 9000miles from new.
I bought it in December 2018 and have been collecting as much new old stock items as possible.
When I got it home I treated it to a full service and new timing belt and tensioner from Ford.
It was solid but the paint was dead with loads of dents, scrapes and surface rust stared to appear.
So I but the bullets and started a full strip and rebuild to make it mint I'm around 90% complete with it booked in for a new tipper body in August.





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Oldyellar



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Post #783495 27th Jul 2019 6:46pm
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Landumph



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My hat is suitably doffed to you, very nice work Bow down , I assume you do bodywork for a living? Will the tranny be put to work or will it just for show?
Post #783529 27th Jul 2019 8:30pm
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Caterham



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likewise. very impressed with your handy work.

wife works for VA but not out of stanstead. Mr. Green
Post #783532 27th Jul 2019 8:45pm
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GREENI



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Probably fitted literally hundreds, if not thousands of each and every piece of glass on them back in the day.
We used to go to fleet places with vans full of screens and front vents.
The drop glasses were literally mallet’d into the doors.... the none skilled rough fitters used to bend the doors.

I remember every part number of each piece of glass, even now Laughing

There’s a few restored Transits i see frequently.
Kudos.
Post #783538 27th Jul 2019 9:07pm
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Procta



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Oldyellar that is one fine restoration project!! one of the lads on the 306 forum loved his transits, he had the later one to this, he practically welded all the front floor etc. he was about as mad as me, with builds. He is now restoring a merc camper bus thing.
How did you find getting hold of the parts? as I think these are just a mk3 face lift? Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back

Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it!
Post #783556 28th Jul 2019 12:19am
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Oldyellar



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Scotland 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Corris Grey
Landumph wrote:
My hat is suitably doffed to you, very nice work Bow down , I assume you do bodywork for a living? Will the tranny be put to work or will it just for show?

Thanks for the kind words, I am a builder to trade I cant take credit for the paint I body shop has done it for me, I do get stuck in to every other aspect of the build though.
I'll just be using it for show/ play it puts a smile on my face it reminds me of when I first started out in buisness when it was my only option to have one of these as the were plentiful and cheap and vosa used to hate me Laughing
Post #783563 28th Jul 2019 7:21am
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Oldyellar



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Scotland 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Corris Grey
GREENI wrote:
Probably fitted literally hundreds, if not thousands of each and every piece of glass on them back in the day.
We used to go to fleet places with vans full of screens and front vents.
The drop glasses were literally mallet’d into the doors.... the none skilled rough fitters used to bend the doors.

I remember every part number of each piece of glass, even now Laughing

There’s a few restored Transits i see frequently.
Kudos.

I think I changed the windscreen in my old work truck 3 times it was accident prone lol
W37DHF was its registration.
They are starting to come into their own on the classic scene and people are favouring the modern classic to the older stuff for driveability ect.
Post #783564 28th Jul 2019 7:25am
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Oldyellar



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Scotland 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Corris Grey
Procta wrote:
Oldyellar that is one fine restoration project!! one of the lads on the 306 forum loved his transits, he had the later one to this, he practically welded all the front floor etc. he was about as mad as me, with builds. He is now restoring a merc camper bus thing.
How did you find getting hold of the parts? as I think these are just a mk3 face lift?


Thanks Procta this is a mk5 it is a facelift of the mk4, the mk3 looks like the mk4/5 are facelifted from it but there are a lot of changes like the arches are different the suspension and rear axles, steering ect mk3 transit is a very unique model Cool
Post #783565 28th Jul 2019 7:30am
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discomog



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A credit to you. Hopefully you'll not be upsetting VOSA with this one. Thumbs Up Defender 90XS SW
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Post #783566 28th Jul 2019 7:33am
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Oldyellar



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Scotland 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Corris Grey
Thanks Discomog, I was a easy target at the start back then the load sensor valve always broke on them Confused This on officer from vosa ended up giving me a little ticket to slow to skip check points as it was at least every week he pulled me and started finding he had made me renew most of my van Laughing
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L110CDL



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Very nice project and a great Transit at the end of it Bow down

Love all the different cars in the body shop, i can make out all of them except the blue one that's in the front of your Transit, could you help me on this, many thanks if you can Very Happy 1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up. Keeper.


Clayton.
Post #783913 29th Jul 2019 9:08pm
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Oldyellar



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Scotland 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Corris Grey
Hi Clayton thank you, the blue car is a Lancia, I'm not sure what model but I'd say mid 70s it looks a bit like the Morris marina with the sloped rear
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Sulisuli



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United Kingdom 2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 HT Corris Grey
Great thread and great work, very tidy Thumbs Up 2015 HT XS 90
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