Hexonxonx
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- Guelph, Canada
Good day from Canada!
I took delivery of my Marshall-bodied Series IIa back in May, and have been focussed on getting it safetied and road-worthy since then. Now that I'm able to drive it around town, I thought this would be a good time to start my project thread. Here is my Hello thread with pictures of the vehicle delivered "as found" - running but not yet safetied nor cleaned up in any way. This was after a cross-country trip of about 3,200km on a transport truck.
As I purchased it sight unseen, I spent a couple days familiarizing myself with the vehicle and christened it "Winnie" (because, let's be honest with ourselves, coming up with the right name is one the most important things to do, if not THE most important). I started making a list of things that I could easily see were needed for the all-important safety certification here in Ontario, Canada. Shocks, right-rear turn signal wiring (bad ground), wiper switch, front anti-roll bar links, and new tires.
To my surprise, not all MOT-licensed inspection stations here will inspect and certify a classic vehicle, but I finally found one and dropped it off after fixing the known issues. I was a bit anxious about it, but the list they came back with was not all that bad - u-joints on rear propshaft, transmission mounts, spring bushes, windshield washer switch (they didn't realize it was a plunger rather than an electric pump switch ) and a jack. I ended up replacing the rear leaf springs with 1-ton units, which made things a little simpler and also fixed the rearward lean. Everything else fixed, and she's on the road!
I took delivery of my Marshall-bodied Series IIa back in May, and have been focussed on getting it safetied and road-worthy since then. Now that I'm able to drive it around town, I thought this would be a good time to start my project thread. Here is my Hello thread with pictures of the vehicle delivered "as found" - running but not yet safetied nor cleaned up in any way. This was after a cross-country trip of about 3,200km on a transport truck.
As I purchased it sight unseen, I spent a couple days familiarizing myself with the vehicle and christened it "Winnie" (because, let's be honest with ourselves, coming up with the right name is one the most important things to do, if not THE most important). I started making a list of things that I could easily see were needed for the all-important safety certification here in Ontario, Canada. Shocks, right-rear turn signal wiring (bad ground), wiper switch, front anti-roll bar links, and new tires.
To my surprise, not all MOT-licensed inspection stations here will inspect and certify a classic vehicle, but I finally found one and dropped it off after fixing the known issues. I was a bit anxious about it, but the list they came back with was not all that bad - u-joints on rear propshaft, transmission mounts, spring bushes, windshield washer switch (they didn't realize it was a plunger rather than an electric pump switch ) and a jack. I ended up replacing the rear leaf springs with 1-ton units, which made things a little simpler and also fixed the rearward lean. Everything else fixed, and she's on the road!