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Mk 3 Nice but Naughty

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:54 pm
by marinabrian
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Marina Pickup totally able to transport the Mk 3 coupe you travelled to Sheffield in back to Newcastle, in kit form in the back!!

Marina pickup - also available for egg & potato rounds on the Manor estate :wink:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:34 pm
by minispeedstar
Funny how that pickup looks like your 1972 one... :wink:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:03 pm
by The original northen boy
:cry: Sorry to disappoint,but NWE 552X has long gone to the great scrap yard in the sky,i have the back axel and running gear any other useable parts were kept by Brian (not sure if she ran on an "A"+ engine) sadly she was too far gone to save :cry:

Beckett Bros " it just wouldn't make a pet"

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:12 pm
by minispeedstar
ok.. :wink: :wink:

Are you sure Brian didn't build it into a Coupe with new panels like he did EEL into a pickup?... :lol:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:45 pm
by The original northen boy
:P No "HONESTLY" the pick-up is no longer,even though young Bri is a brilliant engineer, sadly this project was past his vast capabilities,as for the other comment i can't pass an oppion on that one :wink: :wink:

Beckett Bros "Talents in abundance"

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:46 pm
by marinabrian
minispeedstar wrote:ok.. :wink: :wink:

Are you sure Brian didn't build it into a Coupe with new panels like he did EEL into a pickup?... :lol:
I think you will find NWE was blue & brown & EEL was white!
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Do you really think you are the only person in the universe who can weld?
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Beckett Brothers International "Cut 'n' Shuts" are our speciality :roll:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:05 pm
by marinabrian
And for good measure check out the inner wings, NOT an X reg then!

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Douglas, about as original as LTM 575P! :wink: :wink:
Amazing what can be done with a cement mixer & and an industrial sized tin of bodge! :lol: :lol:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:15 pm
by minispeedstar
Oh no, deffo not an Ital, but is a mk3 going by the washer jets in the bonnet and none in the scuttle :wink:

Whats up with LTM575P?..

You want to try changing a real panel :wink:
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:28 pm
by Uncle Frank
:shock: Oh god Gary not the scuttle...i still have nightmares about changing that one!! :lol: :lol: ....still it came out all right in the end eh!

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:39 pm
by minispeedstar
took a couple of brave men for that one ay Frank :wink:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:41 pm
by Uncle Frank
:lol: Aye but we got the bugger fixed though Gaz!!, tricky little blighter though, wouln`t want to do too many of em! :wink:

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:44 pm
by minispeedstar
this was the fun bit... :? reworking as Mumford's did..
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:50 pm
by marinabrian
Now it's funny you should say that Gary, guess what I'm doing tommorow :D

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Are you a mind reader or what?
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What with the X-Ray eyes, seeing through a bonnet is no mean feat :wink:
Just because car has washer jets in the bonnet, doesn't automatically make it a Mk 3.

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:53 pm
by minispeedstar
second hand!? oh now!.. its all rusty!.. :wink:

I guess your doing Mumford rear wings next week?.. :wink:
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Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 10:00 pm
by minispeedstar
marinabrian wrote:What with the X-Ray eyes, seeing through a bonnet is no mean feat :wink:
Just because car has washer jets in the bonnet, doesn't automatically make it a Mk 3.
It ain't a mk1 shell mate as they didn't have the small access panels above the rear arches.. :wink: and there is another telltail i can see.. big one.. :wink: :wink: