My Humber Super Merc

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It all started about 2 years ago I was looking on ebay and I came across one of these :p

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It was for sale as spares or repairs, It had no engine and needed quite a bit of work doing.
Hmmmm I thought [?]

Then I came across this

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It had a recon engine and a multi-point LPG conversion it also
had a MOT and Taxed this got my brain cell working overtime
what if I bought both of them
Hmmmmm I thought

Gladys & Bernie
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So I bid on the Black C220 Merc and won it :D

I went to see the Fintail, and it wanted a lot of body work and plenty of welding underneath I did make an
offer for it but the chap wanted more I said I would think about it and left. The bidding went mad on ebay
and it sold for much more than I thought it was worth. :(

So I had a donor car but not a recipient one. [:0]

I spent the next 12 months looking for a nice classic to put the gas conversion and I found this
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Gladys & Bernie
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Having seen the Super Snipe in the flesh I can confirm it is a lovely beast. C'mon then Bernie! Where'e the rest of the tale?

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I am not a person, I am a number, 395 actually......Be seeing you!
If I told you I was a pathological liar, would you believe me?
 
My plan is to take the engine & gearbox out of the black Mercedes and put it into the this [8D]

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Then use the Humber as my every day car :D

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We are on with it Martin :)

All we have to do is take this out of here.

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and this out of here

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and put that in its place

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First thing was to take the Engine out of the merc

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I loosened the nuts, bolts, pipes & wires.

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Then I enlisted the help of a friend to help with the heavy parts.
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http://s638.photobucket.com/user/Gladyscrew/media/Engine%20Swop/1V_zps9a6a0f2d.mp4.html

http://s638.photobucket.com/user/Gladyscrew/media/Engine%20Swop/2v_zps9045c967.mp4.html

Gladys & Bernie
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Looking good, were the engine mounts very hard to fabricate??
I want to see some more interesting pics with all the nity gritty modding lol
;-)

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A commer with even bigger boost will be appering on a screen near you soon!
 
quote:
Originally posted by Panky

I remember it well, Heidi was a big help;)



Somebody had to hold the camera :D


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Summer's Coming



Gladys :)

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quote:
Originally posted by Jon

Looking good, were the engine mounts very hard to fabricate??
I want to see some more interesting pics with all the nity gritty modding lol
;-)

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A commer with even bigger boost will be appering on a screen near you soon!



:)Hi Jon we used the existing Mercedes Mounts

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But when we did the measuring the engine had to be lifted up a little and moved back so the sump missed the anti roll bar.

we fabricated so mounting brackets out of 40mm boxed steel.

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Now the engine out time to clean up the bay and get it ready for the Mercedes Engine & Box.:p

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Engine ready to go in

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Now didnt that seem easy :D :D

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Looks very easy from where I'm sitting:D[8D]

Can't help thinking you actually did all this some time ago and are teasing us:D:D

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