There's a few things happening in my garage at the moment, and none of it looks good, yet.

[Edited on 9-6-2004 by The CAR VET]

Body off...

Rear floor section cut and dropped while body is raised, creating deeper well for back seat and more clearance under fenders...

Rear mounting flange removed and pan halves yet to be cut out ready for chequer plate floor and stiffening. Sides of body yet to be cut and modified for seat clearance. Bit of fibreglassing to do here, but not too much damage...

u still live in tasmania? a few mods going on

Nah, Living back up in sunny Queensland again, since Christmas.

It's getting air conditioning, new top, new exhaust, front and rear electrically adjustable suspention, new dash with Bertone VDO instuments, side bars, fuel injection, electronic ignition, new two tone grey interior, molded front and rear bumpers, new electrics, electric mirrors, new roll bar, back seat... I have most of the bits arranged around the buggy now doing trial fittups and redesigning what's there so everything fits together nicely. Surprisingly it's all cost me bugger all.

cool seems 2 be the place 2 live 4 buggys that is might be up ther soon

Just did the front bumper this morning, and cut the lower section away from the front of the buggy to accomodate it properly. This also drops the weight a little, but not by much. Gotta put the steel framing behind it now. There'll be an aluminium chequerplate bash plate mated between the lower bumper edge and the front beam to finish it off.

Managed to fit it into the body shape really well.

And the rear bumper, taken from a new Pajero, of all things. Shortened by 10 inches, and taillights will mount behind those neat vents. This dose away with the need for big mudflaps and rear cage, and the little whale tail cover will fit flush with it (this houses the airconditioner condenser).

there some pretty snazzy looking mods man kepe the pics comeing with your updates

may as well chuck in an EJ20 with a front mounted radiator ,
to power aircon and the rest of the stuff? either way looking good keep us posted ,
what wheels are going on?

very cool. the front bumper is 90's pajero too isnt it?

Actually the front bumper was cut out of a current model Jackaroo one. Only half of the original form remains. It's good when you can afford to trash $600 bumpers just to get what you want...LOL

Wheels? I'm sticking with the smooth custom steel wheels, but thinking of some custom fibreglass hubcaps to replace the standard ones and make them look more updated. I'll be popping the Goodyear Eagle ST's back on for the street and am welding up a spare pair of rims to put the Armstrong 30 inch 11x15R off-road tyres on.

[Edited on 9-6-2004 by The CAR VET]

Trying the rear bumper for size. (Tail lights are only photoshopped for now).

looking good very spacey looking like somthing out of delta force if anyone can remeber that movie?

dont mind that rear bar set up??

looking cool. its good to see some form of expression of own taste but thats what owning a car is all about .everybodies got there own ideas and how it looks is up to you

Love the body lift...
Looks abit like mine
Nice bumpers too

keep the pics comin

Hey yeah that's really cool. There's one thing I don't get. Air conditioning. I do live in melbourne, but still, how's it work in a buggy? Sorry if that's a real stupid question ("the only stupid question is one that's not asked").

Does seem like there exist a lot of buggies up north; don't know why, just seems like it. Warm enough to be open topped maybe?

Real nice work Vet.

Aurel

More pics coming soon. Yet more mods include latest model Hyundai Excel head lights, latest Camry indicaters (all molded into front edge of fenders). The dash will now be fully digital with head-up display on windshield. All indicator, tail light and other lighting will be now super bright LED units where normal globes were used except for headlights, which will now use 4X 50mm dicroic and 4X 30mm dicroic all mounted inside the Hyundai lenses.

Oh, and airconditioning will funtion quite nicely with the soft top up or the custom fibreglass top installed that I'm making up for it.

Pics will follow shortly...

[Edited on 26-9-2004 by The CAR VET]