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**'68OrangeSunshine** · 07-31-2015, 03:47 AM

As we say on this board -- It's your truck. You can do what you want with it, and that's nobody else's business but your own. I was just kidding about the rear bumpers anyway. But I'm sure by the third pint of scrumpy, you'll see it my way.
What a strange world, my Dad had a couple of Jaguars. A Silver Grey '58 Mark VIII Saloon [3.4(?)L DOHC inline 6] a 4 speed w/electric OD, and no brakes. Loved the fold down tray tables and bar in the back. We drove it from Illinois to LA and stayed. In LA, a few years later he bought a clean two-tone Green/Cream Mark IX '59 body and swapped the same engine into that. Unfortunately he traded the good 4-speed trans with the silver body and got a Leyland license built Powerglide 2-speed automatic with the green body. That car's brakes locked up after 15 miles. He also got me a used '61 Mercedes 190 sedan to drive to school. I loved it to death. Literaly. When I blew a rod on the Newport Freeway, late to a rugby game, I decided to get a Chevy truck. Still got it.
Godspeed on your international shipment of "Machine Parts." You'll have to post us on how a distributor can sheer off an SBC.
Brian

07-31-2015, 03:47 AM	#17
'68OrangeSunshine Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Tucson, AZ USA Posts: 7,622	Re: Rear bumper help (UK) As we say on this board -- It's your truck. You can do what you want with it, and that's nobody else's business but your own. I was just kidding about the rear bumpers anyway. But I'm sure by the third pint of scrumpy, you'll see it my way. What a strange world, my Dad had a couple of Jaguars. A Silver Grey '58 Mark VIII Saloon [3.4(?)L DOHC inline 6] a 4 speed w/electric OD, and no brakes. Loved the fold down tray tables and bar in the back. We drove it from Illinois to LA and stayed. In LA, a few years later he bought a clean two-tone Green/Cream Mark IX '59 body and swapped the same engine into that. Unfortunately he traded the good 4-speed trans with the silver body and got a Leyland license built Powerglide 2-speed automatic with the green body. That car's brakes locked up after 15 miles. He also got me a used '61 Mercedes 190 sedan to drive to school. I loved it to death. Literaly. When I blew a rod on the Newport Freeway, late to a rugby game, I decided to get a Chevy truck. Still got it. Godspeed on your international shipment of "Machine Parts." You'll have to post us on how a distributor can sheer off an SBC. Brian __________________ Every 25 years I like to rebuild that 292, whether it needs it or not.