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Scott - it’s bigger than your house !! Shows how you prioritise things 😁😉

Wow - it’s fantastic. I love oak framed buildings. it looks like your house is in a Beautiful spot too.

I’ve just watched the first 5 episodes back to back - it’s brilliant ! Well done. I think it should really work out for you. You are really engaging on camera, the professional quality production, the fact that you have 3 cars on the go and put yourself in there as a beginner so it encourages others , and the fact that you intersperse the rebuilds with such varied content all should give you a broader range of interested people. Great stuff - I wish you every success and thank you !

I’d welcome your subjective judgement - plus I’d very much like to see how it ends up 😊

objective ?

Gosh -I’ve only just found this thread. Great ! Lots of catching up to do 😊

You’re not wrong - they look great!

That never even occurred to me - what do you search for to find then? What would they call themselves?

That would be fantastic - and definitely no rush on time. I would imagine a series 2 mount wouldn’t be a million miles away? Should as a minimum give an idea of what’s what 😊

@honitonhobbit and @Arjan That would be brilliant if you don’t mind ? I’d love to take you up on that kind offer and happy to give you something or the forum for it. We are at opposite ends of the country so it would probably need a relay of some sort.

Right - I think I’ve figured the best option out. Thanks for everyone’s input - probably quite a difficult question to rely to. i had a lie down under a friend’s 80” - and the link I posted above is totally different. The 86” has the extra length in the tub and that gives space above the cross member and the flat section behind the seatbox lids above it .... (where I was planning on putting them). However, on an 80” the crossmember is flush with tub - so nothing can bolt on top. Also the seat box lid hinges bolt onto the front face of the tub - so no flat space there either. Whis means I’ll need to bolt onto the front of the crossmember - and so Mav’s Suggestion is the best option (Thank you!) I will put 2 pairs of holes through that cross member that line up with the gap between the seat bases. Then when it’s together I can run a bracket up from them and pick it up somehow. I’ll put pictures up in my 80” thread when I can to show how it’s being done. thanks again folks.

That’s an option! Where would we get most people to? Somewhere in the middle of the country I’m guessing ?

It looks fantastic ! 😊👍🏻

Maybe this Summer - someone could not arrange a Forum foray ? Seems like a long time since a group of us happened to be in the same place at the same time..?

Great pictures!

Thank you ! That’s just the sort of info that I was looking for 😊. How long would you allow from start to finish ?

As above ...

Which type would you like? And what kind of condition would you like?

Honestly ! I’m a Land Rover mechanic 👨‍🔧😱😂

I’m thinking something like this welded to the top of the crossmember:

I meant to start my reply by saying ‘Thank you everyone for replying and making suggestions’ - Thank you! Her is a link to what someone did on an 86”. http://www.teeafit.co.uk/seatbelts/ they did them as clamps and it looks like the bolted one end of the belt directly to the top of their clamp. I’d want to bolt both ends of each of the 3 belts to a bar that sits under the whole thing. i haven’t had chance to check whether the crossmember aligns the same on an 80” as it does here on an 80” Maybe the solution to this is a simple folded bracket like the one that sits under a spring plate, that I can bolt a small frame to once it’s in....

I wanted to put them in the front ... .....I won’t use side facing. I own one and rent two ! £69 a year 👍🏻 That’s exactly where I am at with it - plus to fit a 3 point belt I’d need a roll bar and I’d still need to have some tie in to the chassis to secure two of the three belt points. I’ll think on that. The main down side is if I am best mounting off the top it wouldn’t be an easy ask to drill out the depth of the crossmember and put 4 crush tubes in it, besides being deep it has a seem along the bottom edge and the curves for the PTO hole.

I’ve booked the chassis to go inro paint at the end of next week and suddenly thought - I should weld some brackets on first so I can fit lap belts... The UK law for children over 3 in classic cars with seat belts are that they can only travel in the back, and where there are no seats in the back - they can’t travel. So I’d like to fit some lap belts. the thinking is that if I put a couple of brackets on the crossmember that sits along the back edge of the seat box - then I can bolt a frame to it that puts a piece of flat bar along the back edge of the seat box to bolt the lapbelts too. Here’s a picture and drawing that shows the crossmember: With not having much time though I first thought of two bit so of angle with a pair of M10 size holes in them, welded vertically on the front face. Then I wondered if there was any ready made brackets I could buy and repurpose - from someone like YRM. I’d welcome anyone’s input and suggestions?

How will they be registered if they are ‘re-engineered’ - will there be more than one name on the V5? 😳