We met Mike and saw his wonderful little truck at V.I.R. in June, and invited him down to join us at the BritishV8 Meet in Durham. I took photos when we visited with him there. Now Mike's given us a write-up to go with the photos. (He's also gave us some in-process shots of the project.)
Check it out!
<a href="http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MikePugh.htm">
Mike Pugh's 1959 Ford Thames Panel Truck with BMW 2002 Mechanicals</a> (54 photos!)
Some of my personal favorite things about this conversion are the final weight (just 1500lbs), the IRS, and the comfy Recaro seats - not to mention the craftsmanship.
(http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MikePugh/MikePugh-DG.jpg)
One other cool detail: the rear ~5/6ths of the inner fenders are BMW but the front ~5" are Ford, and by lucky coincidence both original vehicles used similar embossments - same width, same depth, and even parallel. Neat!
(http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MikePugh/MikePugh-BK.jpg)
(http://www.britishv8.org/Other/MikePugh/MikePugh-AA.jpg)
its nice to hear an excellent conversion of your ford truck with bmw mechanicals. hope i can also do that to my truck.
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