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Post by Graham Wood on May 12, 2014 14:46:42 GMT
Am looking for an eagle SS, front engined, body shell. in the next 5 days ( 5 day reason not important, but much longer if none available ) Must have good rear end, rear glass, rear glass tunnel, boot lid, rear wheels and tyres and rear bumper and lights.
Otherwise I will have to cut up a complete Eagle SS for the parts I need.
so if anyone has a knackered body, but with a good back end ( or other ) let me know.
Regards .
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Post by Peter on May 13, 2014 8:26:30 GMT
Perfect timing ram, been a flood of SS bodies and wrecks on Ebay all year and now you want one.... none. By the way, SSs don't have rear window tunnels it's built in, the Nova does. Take a look though the 'for sale' board and see if any of the sellers still have what they were offering, I know a few didn't sell.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 13, 2014 17:29:02 GMT
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Post by Peter on May 13, 2014 21:47:27 GMT
Being nosy, what the heck are you going to do with back end of a SS?
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Post by Graham Wood on May 14, 2014 22:10:18 GMT
peter" Being nosy, what the heck are you going to do with back end of a SS?[/quote]
Hope no one was going to ask .............
But.........
To make a trailer. But girlfriend does not like it, says looks stupid ? But better than a rectangular box !
Any thoughts anyone ?
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Post by Graham Wood on May 14, 2014 23:42:48 GMT
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Post by Peter on May 15, 2014 7:38:40 GMT
For once, the girlfriend is right
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Post by Graham Wood on May 15, 2014 9:33:52 GMT
For once, the girlfriend is right DAM and blast. Now have to tell her she was right. Not looking forward to that ! I like it ( sort of ) and a new steel trailer is £ 600 and £ 300 for fibreglass top, so could do SS trailer for £ 600
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Post by scooby on May 15, 2014 10:59:07 GMT
It almost works, Ram, and it's certainly a cracking idea. (And it'll turn heads...!)
I'm not sure quite why - to my mind - it doesn't fully work, tho'; I think it's because it is simply a 'rear end', so looks almost like an accident! I suspect you need more of a 'trailer' input to it, so's it's clear what it's meant to be, but still has a large SS influence.
If you squint your eyes at the side-on picture, I think you can sense that if the top shape of the trailer followed the 'waist-height' body-line (that gentle flowing curve above the wheel arch that starts from the very rear tip) that it'll work better as a visual design. Can you do a 'photo-shop' of it?
Of course, that will mean even less room inside, but I also think the front needs modifying to get rid of that severe slope - but not sharp straight down either! That should give more room up front.
Basically, I don't think it's dead in the water by any means, and I think it could look pretty darned awesome.
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Post by Peter on May 15, 2014 15:00:48 GMT
Sort of homage to but same as, I think would work, but a lot more work.
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Post by Graham Wood on May 15, 2014 17:50:40 GMT
scooby and Peter.
thanks for the input.
Trailer HAS to be on the cheap, has to be minimum work.
Steel angle base chassis, indespension type suspension, so as to give maximum square space under the body. Access via full width door at front, as it only needs one panel bent in 2 places to follow the door shut line, and minimum work to modify top at window for seal and bracing.
Any other mods will make it yet another expensive and time consumong fad, which I can't afford. Am not going to fibreglass anything, except round the door apperture at top to fit flat bent in 2 places door.
I have a trailer, but is too high, so dont need another trailer, custom made, just to take to the occational Kit car show. So it's as it stands or no trailer at all, but as all things are "fads", maybe not practicable.
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Post by scooby on May 16, 2014 10:39:31 GMT
Tee-hee - I can see why you want to do this; they're all brilliant
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2014 19:59:44 GMT
the idea to create the same shape trailer is nice, but why destroy a body and then make the necessary adjustments to change it in a trailer. Making a mold of the back of an eagle is not difficult, and is a lot cost less .
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