101 film prop (from ebay)

Mar 11, 2007 32 Replies

I collected the Giant wasp and trailered it the 150 miles back to Kent yesterday.



Although it had been running before the seller could not currently get it to run and offered to help load on to the trailer. But I pointed out that it would start better if he pulled out the CHOKE!!!!!



It starts and runs fine will need an exhaust and prob brakes for MOT plus the film company has messed with all the electrics so nothing works.



The back is kitted out in a SIFI style and is almost Blake 7 in quality.



I have worked on a few 101's before but never an ambulance, What are the two "air" panels for in the back ?



Has anyone got any 101 windscreen glass ? If not I will get some cut.



The film will be on your screens soon, possibly over Easter.


can we have some pictures please! :)

With all them knobs there it can get confusing! you have to get the choke exactly right to start mine..

If you fancy a stainless exhaust rimmers do them. If you are up for a full rewiring i can offer you a custom wiring loom diagram ;) There really isnt much to the 'lectrics anyhow.

You have an engine driven compressor (its the thing that stops you getting at the dissy adjutment easily). tank is on the opposite side of the truck to the fuel tank. They are fed from it for masks or could be fed from oxygen bottles that lived in the back above the fuel tank.

It wont cost you much to get it cut. new toughened side windows for mine cost me £9 each or so - and they have rounded corner. Take measurments or the old one to a local glass shop.

nice :)

If you´re in the 101 club, we keep some windscreen glass. If you get your own, you´ll have to get it toughened, which costs about 25-30 quid.

Steve

The side windows i mentioned in my post are toughened. I'll have to get a quote off em for a windscreen sized bit.

Darren was talking about "Getting out of glass", because we have had some bad breakage issues. There were plans to get dimensioned plans for members to download.

Steve

worth asking this place if _they_ will deliver though :)

In message , Tom Woods writes

I can mail you some if you want

I think I will start from scratch with the wiring as virtually nothing works I will hunt for a master fuse box to see if it has been messed with.

The top if the compressor is missing and the belt has been removed. As the vehicle is so non-standard I will remove all the air related stuff.

Just managed to clear space in the workshop for it, saves the MDF from rotting any more.

ill email you in a bit!

there isnt a single master. there are about 3 4 way holders under the dash and by your feet. The box in the passenger footwell is the supplimentary ambi wiring.

I fitted 2 8way blade fuse holders in the ambi fuse location and wired everything back to there in mine.

You are not the only one to do this!

you are lucky to have a workshop it fits in :)

Air is handy though - even if its for tyres.

Steve

If I cleared the rest of the crap out I could fit in another 5 101's ;-)

I am amazed you've cleared enough crap to get one in !

I guess the restoration Series III is back in the field ;-)

Ha ha !

No the SIIa is still in there and no I have not just put the 101 on the ramp!!!!!

See I was very busy yesterday clearing space.......and you can open all the doors of the 101 without having to open the doors of the workshop.

I can't even get the 110 into my garage without taking the roofrack off

- assuming I had somewhere to store the bicycles (which prevents getting the Astra in)

Stuart

some of us havent even got a garage! I have a compressor set up in the kitchen and a long pipe that runs out of the window!...

Well, I call it a garage, in reality t'were hole in the ground wi' piece o' tarpaulin over it - but it were a garage TO US!

Stuart

Is the IIa in the back of the 101 !

Having seen your new neighbours, as I drove past yesterday, I think you are going to need to keep everything under lock and key :-(

oh dear, you havent got the pikeys have you?

there was a feckin huuge convoy of em leaving stoke on sunday. They were still coming on at the slip road and then i overtook close to 20 transits and pickups with caravans.

The value of my old house has probably gone up overnight... ;)

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