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Clone pickup.
Door hinges for suicide doors

At one of the shows we were surprised to see a pick up similar to Robin`s. It had a smoothed out engine bay, cut down pickup bed, smooth doors etc. This prompted Robin into doing a rebuild and more modifications that he had been thinking about for sometime.
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Among the plans were suicide (rear hinging doors). He used reversed 4 door centre pillars, with hinges and sections of rear doors let into the back of a standard front door. Sounds complicated but it was quite straight forward.

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Door catch.

 

 

Lowered front wings

The latch is from a Seat Malaga and is fitted into the front of the door.

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The front bumper was lowered as this would make the vehicle look lower. The front wings were extended down to fill the gap.
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Mocking up the bonnet hinges.
The finished hinges.

The forward hinging bonnet uses Montego hinges and a cut down bonnet was used at first so he could see what was going on.
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The finished hinges with small mounting blocks welded to the bonnet. Skoda cable operated catch's are used to secure the bonnet.
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2 piece roof.
The smooth dash.

So the roof could be stored in the rear it was made into two pieces. One inch box section was used for the mounting flanges.
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For the super smooth look Robin completely smoothed the dash. A drop down pod will keep things legal and the switch's will be underneath.
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Painted door pillar.


Painted dash.

The painted door pillar (in a base coat) looking like it was designed to be this way.
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The painted dash. Robin later resprayed the whole vehicle in a darker shade.
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