I was supposed to go camping over the long weekend just gone, but the weather turned bad (some epic storms last Friday) which turned everyone off camping.
On Saturday I ended up giving Rob a hand stripping the G60 that been sitting in his shed for the last few years. Mainly so that we could get Oscar into the shed for repairs so that Rob can come camping next time.
He wanted the doors, seats, steering box and the engine from this G60. The engine proved trickier than expected but because he doesn’t care about the chassis and body, the grinder got a decent workout, which made things easier. We won in the end.
On Monday I decided I needed to make some more headway on Snuffy, so dad and I set about swapping the bullbar over.
A shot of Skippy before we started:
I have hated the plastic bar that he came with since I bought it, it looks much better with the 3” lift (the bar looked outright wimpy before that) so it was good to finally see my good TJM bar go on.
Because Skippy is a Series 3 and Snuffy a Series 1 there are a few differences that initially prohibited the bar from gong on, we had to cut a little bit out of the radiator guard (for some stupid reason the Series 3’s have a radiator that hangs down below the chassis, literally the only thing on the whole car that does). The grill also sticks out a bit more so we had to trim a bit out of the top of the bar as well. But it was worth it!
Now to find time to get the rear bar swapped...