Dave's la(te)st buggy build...

OMG ... Dave finishes a project, well done matey ... is it 7th time lucky?

maverick wrote: OMG ... Dave finishes a project, well done matey ... is it 7th time lucky?

Cheeky! 

If we're talking buggies, it's sixth time lucky! :lol:

I started this thread by saying -

 

...way back in February 2019, and already had this Jimny donor from the 31/08/18 and had started work on it before this thread began...

So, yes, I have had previous attempts at building a buggy, so this was on my bucket list...

So history then from photos I can find -

 

It all started years ago with a Fiat 126 based build, similar to the NCF Blitz but from Australian plans from Predator Buggies  (on which the NCF Blitz was also appratently based)... I got almost to the end of this build but decided two-wheel drive was not the way I wanted to go...

 

Later I started on an SJ based buggy, but that too wasn't really the way I wanted to go...

 

At the end of "Stealth" the Vitaras life, it was stripped to a chassis and an NCF Outbak frame was bought second-hand, but that project was also not seen to fruition...

 

 

Then a Jimny donor was tried, but I felt with this one I'd cut too much off, and it was too far away from being road-legal...

So many of the parts from that one went on to the current one...

Which, I'm pleased to say, is finished... and will appearing on - and off - the road as soon as it safe and legal to do so...


 

How's this for an un-planned colour match?!

 

Aftermarket Suzuki biker leather jacket on the bonnet of the Boogie... :woohoo:
 

It wasn't a bad guess ... only one out ;-0)

Can't wait for 23rd May

Looking good with the matching armour there Dave!

Well, today was the day...

 

MOT day! 

 

And.........................

 

PASSED! First Time... no advisories... Chuffed!