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Marmaduke

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I was given a 90 18 months ago with van sides and three seats up front. Spent some cash on it as you do or has you have to.:) And pretty much it's growing on me, there's certainly something about tratters that I don't think I'd want to get rid of it....

Anyway way up until Friday night it looked like this..



My wife's drive is a Citreon C3 and we've got two teenage lads and the wife's been going on about getting a bigger car so we went to a car supermarket and to cut a long story short they only offered us £1500 for an 07 plate car with FSH and 70k. Tossers....

So I flippantly said we could stick some windows and seats in the tratter and she said OK:eek: So I've spent the weekend making a start...

4 6mm camping mats and high temp spray adhesive (smells lovely).





Sliding windows from Masai with a template £215 all in.



No going back...



Got some alpine windows and seals from Island 4x4 for £84 delivered, Craddocks wanted over £100 just for 1 piece of glass.:eek: Had to make a template for the alpine windows, really not looked forward to this



Trimmed the camping mat to allow for the rubber seal



Lined it with acoustic cloth of ebay



Cut the window out



Template did its job well:D





Had the wife try and help me get the alpine windows in but gave up in the end before I lost my rag and started hitting stuff, just could not get the ba5tards in... It was nerve racking trying to hold the windows when they're covered in washing up liquid, I dropped one once and fortunately it fell inside.

Church and food shopping on Sunday so didn't really get owt done but today progress was made. Tweaked the alpine template and remade it and cut the holes a bit bigger and yippee they fit...



Absolutely knackered my thumbs getting the smaller seal in but well chuffed



Need to tidy up the fabric around the alpine windows tomorrow and put a stereo in.



Waiting for my seats to turn up now from Exmoor trim and thinking of hiding a Skytag in there somewhere. I don't want to tart it up to much cos it's still got to earn its keep fetching logs for the wood burner.

That's it for tonight, I can hear some sangria calling me from the fridge:beer2:
 
Looking good! makes a real difference.
Wanting to do the same to my 90 and have some windows already, any chance I could borrow your template? Sorry to be cheeky.
 
Looking good! makes a real difference.
Wanting to do the same to my 90 and have some windows already, any chance I could borrow your template? Sorry to be cheeky.

The one for the big windows is in the rubbish cos it got ripped I'm afraid, but I can see if it's salvageable if you want? Masai do sell the template on it's own for £15 if that's any use to you.

Or thinking about it I've got the metal bit's I've got leftover which would do the job:nopics:
 
Cheers mate I thought that might have been the case, no worries:)
I'll take a tape measure to a dealership and do some measuring;)
 
I think my template might need ironing a few times....



But you're welcome to these if that helps



But depending where about you live in Staffordshire I got my template from a place in Lichfield
 
Awesome job. I did it the lazy way and just bought a pair of rear panels with windows and a roof with Alpines. Then sold the old items. Just need to repaint at some point. My forward facing rear seats are the old style Exmoor folding seats, which I fitted with the proper rear seatbelt plates. Wish I'd had the balls to do it your way, wouldnt have to repaint then.
 
I bought a discovery for its transfer box and I ended up keeping it and selling the tratter :oops:
How were you going to fit the rear seats in legally anyway? Did you discover that to be a major problem?
TBF the disco would make a far better people carrier :)
 
Fancy putting up a nice side on pic
It's your lucky day, just found this on photobucket

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Can you live near me when I ( hopefully ) pick my 90 up as I’ll need this doing! Looks ace
 
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