Start of project......erm....snappy title.

Hi went and picked up my new scamp from bradford yesterday.

Had been sat outside beside a go-karting track for 3 years.

The rear was full of blown go-kart tyres, a couple of barriers scrap wood....you name it it was in there.

cleared it all out and found the following useful bits:

x2 proper scamp fuel tanks the little ones that fit in the sides?

It has 13 inch wheels all round (rover alloys) plus a spare but i think the radius arms are 10 inch hence the miniscule gap between the tyre and the radius mounting at the front.......gonna change them i think!

x2 front seats...not mini i dont think but similar...may keep them dunno yet.

A fold down bench seat...would that have been used??? i personally think its been dumped in it but i kept it anyway.

The ancillaries for 1.5 engines x2 dizzy's 1 alternator x2 fuel pumps etc etc.

A metro dash (full of water ) various scraps of loom, and a crackle painted centre console with smiths oil pressure gauge.

Got two large grease buckets full of nuts bolts mountings etc so ill have to go through them too at some point.

anyway its now tucked up in the barn with my clubman so at least its out of the weather for now!



Also got lots of receipts and a couple of promotional booklets.



And some booklets....ill think ill just use these as hamster bedding !



Oh well ill update once i start doing something with it!
ps the logbook says its chassis number is 20294....sound about right?

Scampers mags as hampster bedding - wash your mouth out with soap

Oh I dunno. They'll make nice bedtime reading for the hamsters, who as Scamp enthusiasts would make useful assistants - they could get to the unreachable bits!

ANORAK ALERT The mags are from 2002-3 (the first, incidentally, to feature colour pix), presumably when the car was owned by Ian Connolly.

Its a puppet.............................................................sorry that was Brian Conly wasn't it

you got a engin 4 that mate

choice of two ....metro 998cc or 1983 998cc mini city.

have 12g295 head for either plus twin hs2 carbs.

if it has around 50 hp by the finish that'll do me

50HP?

I've used power tools with more power than that!

My dads Plunge Router can break wrists just by looking at it!

TRR Motorsport wrote:50HP?

I'm sure FB has just missed the 2 off the front.

Regsmonster wrote:

TRR Motorsport wrote:50HP?

I'm sure FB has just missed the 2 off the front.

Good point, especially if hes going down the forced induction route, eh?

just a visual update......first time the scamp has been out of the barn since i bought it......damn i was hoping it would have magically fitted an engine and repaired itself ...











just need to get on with stripping the flaking paint back, re-painting the frame, fitting engine, loom, new brakes all round by the sound of things (the merry rattle of broken springs in the drums when you move it) and im home free!!

Just got some nice 12 inch wellers..... fit it quite nicely i think..









just thought id show n tell.

Hi there, Its nice to see a Scamp come out of hiding. I am glad to see such a keen person rebuilding one.
I hope everything goes well on the rebuild. Keep us updated on the work. If you are a member are you going to Stourport?

Take care Rick..

New floor just gone in...

Split in to three peices to allow removal in sections.





mmmm shiney..... just need to line everything up for the seating and handbrake now.

A bit more progress have sorted the path the exhaust is going to take and have mocked it up to sort the mounting points....oh have also ot the engine in at last starting to wire that back in also.













I have also completed the basic dash layout, essentially its a bit of chequerplate bent at rightangles but i have high hopes.

A leopard print dash!
















How 70's

lol.....tempting but i think ill stick with the chequerplate theme its a little less risque....

ill just keep the leopard print in the bedroom ...grrr ......(hangs head in shame)

Ferretboy221 wrote:ill just keep the leopard print in the bedroom ...grrr ......(hangs head in shame)

I dunno, it's a look that might catch on at the Kit-Car shows.

4x4 Rob wrote:Interesting point James what about a Fur Dash most should remember those!.What about the gear knobs that had a compass in!.Those plastic seat covers you put on your mini seats so they looked like bucket seats!. Can anyone identify the Dash in the pix i thought it was an Austin 1100? Please keep it. Great to watch how far the red line does go,Round twice if i had my way Ttfn. 4x4 Rob.

My Auntie's Viva had one of those speedos as well, It must be an age thing but all of a sudden I'm starting to love Retro cool. Tiger fur seat covers in 'K'? sure thing Baby!

However stylish or cool it may be, for practical purposes "thermometer" style speedo's a pain in the [ ]. Checking the speed in my Dad's old 1100 took my eyes off the road for far too long. For taking in a reading at a glance, the angle of a pointer has still to be bettered.

Your (informed) choice, of course.

Ive found that i use the revs more than anything once ive got used to a car you only really use the speedo religiously when you come across a speed camera.... but the point is taken on board.

4x4 Rob wrote:I wouldnt imagine most Scamps to set off too many Speed Cameras, May be the Gulf coloured one............

Nah, there aren't any scameras in his garage.

I had to train myself to watch the speedo, or at least my speed, religiously. Too many points building up....

We tend to know (pretty accurately) how fast we're going, just by how it feels and listening to the engine/exhaust note.

Elaine&Reg