My Clubman

[Vegard]

Just picked up this. Does anyone spot the pièce de résistance?

[smithyrc30]

Is it the DeWalt chop saw stand?

The grill has a GT badge on it but the grill is not from a GT. The centre bars on the early GTs were black.

The body does not look like a GT either, there are no holes in the RH inner wing for the brake servo.

It is an early one but not 1969, the bonnet has the stay on the LHS and the hinges are the most common vertical stud and nut not the rare horizontal bolt.

As it has the id plates on a quick check would tell you. Vin would begin XAD2 and the Commision would begin S20D.

Looks like it was originally Bronze Yellow.

[rich@minispares.com]

underbody light, handy for those breakdowns..........

[minimans]

The lamp bar? Or the ST adjustable spanner

[Vegard]

Damn, I was hoping it was a 69 because of the bonnet stay. No, it's not a GT.

[GraemeC]

..the hinges are the most common vertical stud and nut not the rare horizontal bolt

Is that not the wrong way round? The horizontal fastening, with the stud captive in the hinge, are the later, common type.

[Inno Cooper]

Well.. its wet suspension... and a Clubman.. pleaase tell us its an automatic!

[smithyrc30]

..the hinges are the most common vertical stud and nut not the rare horizontal bolt

Is that not the wrong way round? The horizontal fastening, with the stud captive in the hinge, are the later, common type.

Sorry perhaps I should have been clearer. The joint in the common type is vertical, the joint in the rare type is horizontal

[GraemeC]

Really? Surely this is the common type, with the studs horizontal:

http://www.minispares.com/catalogues/cl ... x?3~23~157

[smithyrc30]

Really? Surely this is the common type, with the studs horizontal:

http://www.minispares.com/catalogues/cl ... x?3~23~157

Yep that is what I said, the joint is vertical in the later clubman. The joint is horizontal in the early (rare) one.

Anyway, Vegard what is the exciting part of the clubman please?

[GraemeC]

Ah - penny has dropped now (with a very echoey thud!)

[Vegard]

That wasn't what you said

The LH bonnet stay was the most exiting, by not as exiting after all, now it seems...

[Colin a]

Colin a,I have just joined the forum,l have been looking at the stories from different members with interest, so decided to register( last weekend). Just thought you may be interested in my story, I am in to bikes really but I am a it of a hoarder am I have a 1970 1275 gt. which has only been seen by one other person in the last 30 years.in have known the car from new and have done all the work on it since the,it completely standard and in excellent condition ,I just have a few odds and ends to put it on the road, sorry I can't show you any pictures, I don't know how to,I will try to get my grandson to help me, i must be one of your oldest members,I am 77 this year.i will tell you more if anyone is interested,thanks for listening. Colina

[jay weinstein]

Welcome to the forum...looking forward to seeing some pictures.

JW

[roger mcnab]

hi colin a
well i am 77 this year also in dec how about you my car is the clubman with v8 engine it is on this forum i am in oz also doing a unipower gt replica
cheers roger mcnab

[Colin a]

Hi roger,best of luck with your project,wish I had your enthusiasm for cars,I worked on them all my working life ,I would rather have my bikes,my grandson and me have fourteen bikes all needing work,we are preparing a GSX R 600 for track days at the moment,he has a 899 ducati panagali on the road,anyway that's enough about me,just hope we can keep going long enough to finish our projects, all the best Colin a.

[roger mcnab]

hi colin a
i used to have a gt750 ducati that i sold in a stupid moment but now have yr5 1970 yamaha 350 a 1984 rz yamahe that has a 4 cyl 750 engine that i put together and a rd 1974 with a 550 4 cyl air cooled engine that i built when i was waiting for the crank for the rz to be put together but the guy said he could not figure it out and sent it backless the money for parts lesson learned
then because the long time it takes to get parts for the mini i bought t t100c crankshaft with rods with the idea of putting it in a spare rd frame do we ever learn the only place for triumph bits is america postage is horrible and our dollar is weak worse against the pound
well cheers roger mcnab
ps also miss my old 1972 full worked v8 ute it was like a rocket ship