Over my 40 years of owning R4s I kept them going by buying ‘scrappers’ from my local breaker and stripping them for parts. Time marches only in one direction, and I am now having a clear-out. Before I take a load of items to my local metal merchants for weighing-in, here are a couple of lots which might be of interest to anyone who is into restoration in a big way.
NB. These parts are in extremely poor condition — not so much scrapyard as scrapheap. Possibly some of them can be either used for small bits or by cutting sections out of them. Except where noted they are all from 1970s vehicles.
BODYWORK BITS — FREE TO GOOD HOME
A job lot comprising five front inner wings (three right, two left), a nearly complete RHD bulkhead (solid condition) off a 1971 car, four rear wings (still attached to upper body fragments), two front triangular panels from a GTL (reasonable condition), three doors, an extremely rusty floor pan.
ONE-AND-A-HALF BODYSHELLS + V5 : £50
Half a bodyshell from a red GTL (front half was destroyed by fire in another vehicle!). And a whole (but very far from complete) bodyshell from a yellow 1978 TL, plus matching V5 (oval and triangular plates still present). I don’t know the DVLA rules regarding restorations but possibly someone might be able to use this as a basis for something.
(Hens not included).
I repeat : condition is extremely poor. You’d need a large van and/or trailer (with high sides). If nobody is interested, then the angle-grinder and the recycling centre beckon!
Please reply by Private Message (Conversation) only. Location: about 20 miles west of Gloucester.
NB. These parts are in extremely poor condition — not so much scrapyard as scrapheap. Possibly some of them can be either used for small bits or by cutting sections out of them. Except where noted they are all from 1970s vehicles.
BODYWORK BITS — FREE TO GOOD HOME
A job lot comprising five front inner wings (three right, two left), a nearly complete RHD bulkhead (solid condition) off a 1971 car, four rear wings (still attached to upper body fragments), two front triangular panels from a GTL (reasonable condition), three doors, an extremely rusty floor pan.
ONE-AND-A-HALF BODYSHELLS + V5 : £50
Half a bodyshell from a red GTL (front half was destroyed by fire in another vehicle!). And a whole (but very far from complete) bodyshell from a yellow 1978 TL, plus matching V5 (oval and triangular plates still present). I don’t know the DVLA rules regarding restorations but possibly someone might be able to use this as a basis for something.
(Hens not included).
I repeat : condition is extremely poor. You’d need a large van and/or trailer (with high sides). If nobody is interested, then the angle-grinder and the recycling centre beckon!
Please reply by Private Message (Conversation) only. Location: about 20 miles west of Gloucester.
