Really really tempted

ghce

ghce

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After I had a vivid dream of a well side P4 this certainly has got me thinking and it's a 110 as well which are becoming much rarer now-days and they were perhaps arguably the best of the P4's especially when it comes to keeping up with the moderns on the road as an every day car.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing ... =557626873

As a utility working vehicle it would ensure it's survival well into this century rather than going to the scrapper as it seems assured to be.
In NZ work vehicles especially utes and vans attract a premium price when compared to a family car.

Here is an example of what I mean, maybe the English product doesn't have the same cache' as the US steel but as for novelty I feel a P4 110 pick up well-side would be the mutts nuts.
http://www.classiccar.co.nz/articles/cl ... pickup-177

Graeme
 
The 110's can certainly raise a few eyebrows when they pick up their skirts, even more so if you do away with most of the rear part of the car & I found ours very easy to use as an everyday car & very reliable.
When I finally get round to doing something with her I just know I won't want to sell her. They have old world charm in spades.

Go for it! :wink:
 
That's been done before in the UK and the result is distinctive and rather cute! Looks even better with one of the earlier low front wing P4 variants. And the P4 engine bay is known to accet a V8...

Chris
 
I was trying to imagine a p5 and a p6 in ute form and can not for the life of me think how they would look any good, however the p4 I can see that it would look just right, the perfect balance of width and height and front guard shape, the deck height and try shape would match very well with the door and guard waist heights.

Graeme
 
Can you still make Pick ups out of cars over there?
You cannot do that here anymore, apparently, there is no catagory for vehicles converted to pick ups on a BIVA test which you need to have if you have modified a monocoque structure.
Ok, you are now going to tell me that the P4 has a seperate chassis........ :oops:
 
As Chris York noted, it's been done before in the UK, most notably by Denis Jenkinson, who chopped a Rover 90 to carry his sprint bike back in the 50/60s.
Jenkinson was not a nervous man, he 'passengered' Stirling Moss when they won the Mille Miglia in a Mercedes Benz 300SLR in 1955 and rode the chair for Eric Oliver to two Motorcycle Sidecar World Championships a few years earlier.
For many years he was "Continental Correspondent" for Motorsport magazine in the UK and wrote some of the best books ever about motor racing.
 
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