BigT105e

On 06/02/2020 at 13:41, andyztouring said:

 Vauxhall Viva , cant recall if HA or HB but think its HB.

Yep, went to brit car day in upper hutt, blue 2 door viva there, had a squiz, seats the same, yay, anyone after some lol?

18 hours ago, governorsam said:

vauxhall use the same sort of latch.

Thanks, will look into it.

Not sure, brought off a dude who was selling a bunch of 105e stuff to build racecar, they may have been fitted to his car previous, but they aint original 105e too bee shur. Will keep detectoring.

Hey peeps. Can anyone please help me identify these seats I brought from the other end of the country as Anglia seats. They dont fit, the arches that sit on the floor at the rear don't sit correctly, and the front rail is offset and is too narrow for Anglia's mounting. Any help would be appreciated. i need to identify so I can flick off and hopefully recoup some pingas. Ta

15 hours ago, Yowzer said:

Is a missing roof lining a WoF fail?

Got failed on that at VTNZ the other day....amongst other things.

5 hours ago, Anythingclassic said:

Anglias are a bloody sickness and they did have a huge spot in motoring history.

Awesome to see other 105e's being modified/restored/and still played with..

Here's mine

Definitely a sickness, I'm on the lookout for more, preferably with live plates and not rooted, nice pooch btw, and that 4x4 one looks hard case.

Hey bro, mean project, I'm just pondering how the cert will work, I looked at doing something similar a few years ago with putting a series 2A truck cab on a disco chassis I had and my cert guy said that putting a different cab on another chassis then it would be considered a scratch built, so I flagged the idea and pretty much gave it all away, looks like my cert guy may have been full of it?

Got a VQ25DET and loom sitting at work ATM......mmmmm, would make van go nice...., might have to sell CA setup.

Bro, no dramas, feel for ya, been there done that........twice lolz

Don't feel bad, the amount of ground work I had to do with the wife was frikin hard work mate, in saying that it does make it all the more satisfying, looking at buying a business and having a retro logo on those side panels is gona be soooo fuckin sweet.

Yeah was a mean score, 5hundie, right place right time. Only rust is LH side of rear door frame, and a bit in the floor where trans tunnel met Floor, which was cut out when trans tunnel and firewall removed-easy. I couldn't believe I had managed to find one, and from a dude that had so much shit he didn't think it was worth anything. I'm at a wedding at the mo replying to your questions, lol....priorities ha

1 hour ago, Dolan said:

Bad ass

Cheers bro, u not coming over for Sunday?

Floor is tidy, just surface rust, only holes were where trans tunnel met firewall and Floor, which was cut out for clearance and back left corner- fuck all.

So, I'd had this at home about a month sitting there in the shed with it's little friend and I happened to be at autopaint Wairarapa having a chat with the owner Reece, I filled him in on the van and the fact that I was trying to decide what engine to put in it and I had recently saved a vitara from the scrappy, he mentioned he had a suzie 413 he wanted some vitara bits for, and that he had a CA18DE and 5speed RWD box he was happy to part with, so a deal was struck and vitara was gone.

Fast forward to last weekend and I loaded the old van onto the dolly at 8am and headed off to work. Reece brought his Sunny down and we proceeded to remove the engine and box. Once out he cleared off and I pottered around for the rest of the day test fitting, measuring, and cutting until I could fab some mounts up and bolt her in. Takes a whole lotta time when your doing it by yourself. Went home for dindins for about an hour, grabbed brother-in-law on the way back to work and carried on. About 10:30 that night, we loaded van onto dolly and brought home to bed. Finished about 11:30, a pretty productive day.

I will carry on post at smoko, it will answer this question. Cheers