Bop 92k - back on the road

[MarinaCoupe]

Are the plug leads and coil lead new or old, they do break down over time.



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[Morris McKinnon]

It was the only car he fell asleep in

Ah.
That will be the exhaust leak..

Fumes! yea, could have been? .. always wondered how he developed that nervous twitch!

[morris_carl]

Everything is new , I've rewired the ignition system and has improved it a lot ,

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[morris_carl]

She made all the way to Milton Keynes! Great day , just got to make it home now[FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]

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[lock1506]

Good to see the old General is still on the road in the back ground there.

[Morris McKinnon]

Looking good, TDT would have looked nice next to BOP I see the Dukes was there too! I've missed out today

[morris_carl]

And she made it home running just on the the battery as the alternator packed up , lights were quite dim after 2 hours ! was a good day ,nice little location , museum was really good too

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[morris_carl]

Well,she is still going,had to replace the head gasket again as it blew between the cylinders , but covered about 500 miles so far , heres a couple of pics of how it looked before !
Amazing how different she is !also got some new trims from Gareth to finish off the dash


Here she is at a local show last weekend

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[JoshWard]

Ruined it!!

[morris_carl]

Just jealous Josh [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]

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[Morris McKinnon]

glad the panels arrived ok.. looking good. I forgot you have an early car. I would have done the silver ones with black outline for you if I realised Nevermind, she looks the biz anyway

[JoshWard]

They are the right ones for it, BOP was built in late 71 after BL changed them

[Morris McKinnon]

Interesting as always. BL didn't make the early trim for long then
Odd why they changed the design and colour (which would. require a tooling upgrade) for a company always looking to cut costs somwhere Bit of a pointless change realy as I doubt sales would have suffered due to the lengh of the red heater symbol

[JoshWard]

Oops didn't notice the heater line, BL changed that later on. Late 71 on 1.3s with a black dash had the new bluey grey trim with silver lines (rather than the silver with black lines) but still had the short heater line. Not sure when they changed to the longer one, probably around late 72/early 73.

Still doesn't explain why they bothered changing the colours though! It seems they changed the heater ducts on the dash before changing the dash trim though. Early dash trim survived until around chassis number 50,000. The demister ducts changed somewhere between around 35 and 40,000.

[Morris McKinnon]

I think this is why I like BL cars.. it fascinates me why so many changes were made but a bit of a mistery as to why!