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Hi all.
Somthing i have been pondering.. how diffrent is the shell of a Clubman estate to a woody traveler? (other than the fronts that is)
Would it be possible to buy the new wood packs and bolt (glue or what ever) on to a clubby estate and then change the front to a round nosie and have a genuin looking woody?

I've always wanted to build a surf blue woody with chrome roof rack, 10" wheels wide archs, maybe white roof. little surf bus kinda thing.

Thanks
Alex.

Didn't the woody's have Mk1/van type doors?

Not sure.... its more the rear end im thinking about. I've not spent much time working on either woody or estates.

as far as i'm aware mate, (as i have a woody in progress) there are quite a few differences at the front end.
they have mk1 doors for a start and they have the round front. as for the rest, i think its more or less the same. you can get the wood kits from somerford. they get a 120yr old bloke to make them to order but it takes about 2 months.
i need to get a wood kit in a few months so let me know if you get one

balls to the blower!!!



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Have to look at doing that then, find a clubman estate with a rotten front. chop the front off flipfront round nose. i don't mind about the doors being the wrong mark and then fit the wood pack. by that time my Dad mite of retried and make the wood for me. He loves wood work.

Thanks

woody-snigger

Its an odd thing. On the morris minor woody the wood was part of the structure, but on the mini it was purely cosmetic. Its like a really early body kit for the decerning chav.

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got to share this..... We're got the log book at home for a Woody that my mum used to drive. Bought from Apple Records which Beatles were with. When she bought it from the garage in Sunningdale they removed the bands signitures from the headlining before she picked it up....doh!!! Was taken off the road in the early 80's because of worn steering colume bushes (the felt ones) then scrapped. Want to find a shell and use the Reg, I will one day.

As said it's basically all the front end and doors that are different. Remember that the roof skin changed from smooth to Ribbed (yes for extra pleasure) as the years went by.

M

Only the very early ones had the smooth roof though, the smooth roof ones also had an internal petrol tank too if I remember rightly.

I think Dicanio who comes on here has a very nice woody in his family, Neil8p is also in the process of putting one back together.

Edited by Tom Fenton on 13th Mar, 2007.

your right about the petrol tank tom. the early ones had the std petrol tank inside the boot area. they were the very early ones though. the roof skins changed a few years later on.

balls to the blower!!!



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would it not be simpler to chop a van than a clubman estate?

NO....... Van sides are unobtainable.... don't put those thoughts in his mind....

i purchased a new side a few years back. but it was very old stock.

i was told there making new side panels in the states but dont know where or the quality.

Vans are almost as hard to get hold of a woodys. I would really like a pickup but there rare and pricy, clubman estates seem easyer to find and cheaper.

the thing is with woody's, is the bini countryman is getting released later this year, which means the price of proper countrymans will skyrocket! cha ching comes to mind!

balls to the blower!!!



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