On or around Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:13:40 +0100, Tom Woods
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[email protected]> enlightened us thusly:
>If only i had the space (and the money!) 
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>http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4629039321
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>Somebody must be tempted!. It has a funny shaped roof too which
>actually looks pretty good - makes it look like less of a brick than a
>normal ambi!
>
>Austin?...
bugger off.
anyway, I'd not want one with a shagged heavy truck engine. I've never seen
the attraction in that lump - way to big and heavy and probably overloads
the transmission into the bargain. Shades of people putting the perkins
4236 into series motors and then complaining about the half-shafts breaking.
If you put twice the torque through them that they were designed for,
they're likely to break...
If you're going to commit sacrilege and fit a non-standard non-rover engine,
then one of the biggish jap sixes (nissan or toyota) would be the favourite.
reasonably modern engine and something around the right size.
anyway, I'm about to embark on phase one of the hybrid project - currently
watching a few transits on eBay. Still needs a provisional go-ahead from
the NFU's engineer (whose phone number I've mislaid) as to whether they're
likely to insure it based on an engineer's insepction or turn it down on
principle. If the latter, I may just run a transit instead of an LDV...
--
Austin Shackles.
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"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
