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Range Rover MG heresy?

I've googled for this on your newsgroup, and have found nothing that addresses this question, so here goes.

I have a 1988 Range Rover 3.5, which is mechanically sound but no longer has a straight panel on it. It's surplus to requirements, is worth damn-all but is too good to part out or scrap. I recall seeing, years ago, photographs of an 'all-terrain' MG-B. An engineer had grafted the bodywork from an MG-B onto the floorpan of a Range Rover. It looked such fun that I am very tempted to do something similar with my car. Does anyone have any records of who might have been responsible for the hybrid, or recommendations for someone who could do this kind of job for me. I live on the Hampshire/Sussex border.

If anyone is mortally offended by this idea, I apologise profusely. Think of it as a transplant giving new life to old metal. At the moment it's either this or cutting the roof off and fitting Morgan-style aero-screens!

Reply to
Véritable Rosbif
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You're much better off putting the 3.5L drive into the MGB!

Reply to
Brian Paul Ehni

No, y'see, that's nothing like silly enough. That's the sensible solution. I want to do something utterly tonto with it. Hence the 'cut the roof off' alternative. The car owes me nothing, but I don't really want to retire it just yet. One other possibility is

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but that starts to cost disprportionate wedge and neither that not the chop is appropriate for this newsgroup. I'll take the problem to a RR forum.

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Véritable Rosbif

It was an engineering company that were looking at selling them commercially - about '93/94, I think.

They had to shorten and substantially modify the Range Rover chassis to get it to fit though, so you might have a job on your hands...

It looked such fun that I am very

Reply to
Benny Cemoli

Thanks. Yes, there would inevitably be some smaller-ing of the RR or some bigger-ing of the MG, which is why I'd need to hand the job to an engineer rather than contemplate doing it myself.

Reply to
Véritable Rosbif

Is it the one on this page:

Regards,

Carl.

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Carl Woffenden

Aha. Consider yourself kissed on all 4 cheeks! Thanks. That gives me a lead. I suspect it'll lead nowhere, but that doesn't really matter. Searching on the 'net didn't reveal this link, because there's no reference in the text to its specifically RR antecedents.

Reply to
Véritable Rosbif

If it's the thing I think it is, it is now owned (or was last year) by someone in SROC (Southern Rover Owners Club). You could try a message to them via their website,

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Gordon

Reply to
gbubb

Thanks

Reply to
Véritable Rosbif

I remember this picture in a magasine... This MGB 4X4 based on Land rover or Range was pictured in Australia as I remember, it is diferent the one shown on maidstone sports car web site... It will be easier and make more sense (usable) to put this engene in a MG B shell.... ;=)

"Véritable Rosbif" a écrit dans le message de news: snipped-for-privacy@bt.com...

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Pilot

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