on the bay; bet it will be cheap, but can this be rebodied to look like a 7? (may need some chassis strengthening)

nasty wires!

Not registered & no V5 - absolutely worthless

Well yes....... a few sheets of marine ply and you could make a Locust out of it....... bit like this ........


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Whether it would be worth the effort is a different matter entirely!!

I'm sure it could, but not a very good one.
If it had a V5c them might be worth it, otherwise I wouldn't bother.

^^^ that's pretty smart - was that a conversiopn then?

worth it? who knows - if it sells cheap, then probably less effort than making chassis from scratch etc.

(& not, I am not planning this, just wondering as there have been quite a few duttons on the bay whcih I guess could be "fixed" in a similar fashion). The 7 may not be the lovliest car around but a damn sight better than those 2!!

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on the bay; bet it will be cheap, but can this be rebodied to look like a 7? (may need some chassis strengthening)

nasty wires!

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No thats a proper Locust (which I've just finally managed to sell after years of it being sat in my fathers garage) but they're built on a ladder chassis which is probably very similar to the Bulldog one. TBH people laugh at them but if you want a cheap traditional looking car to pootle round in as opposed to a car to use for trackdays and the like then they're not nearly as bad as people would have you believe.

For my next project, I'm going to strip my Seven and turn it into a Ford Sierra

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LOL!! You could write a book on it.

Not sure what the deal is with copyright if you take someone else's book and reqork it backwords....

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Has anyone genuinely built a locost for £250?

I think you could just about do it when the first book was published if you followed Ron's advice and got the metal from skips and depanelled luton vans for their aluminium etc.

Those days are long gone, especially with the price of scrap these days.

I've seen a reference on here to a rumoured scrap man who made one for himself with bits from his heap for £37.50 or something mad.

I reckon you could still build a Triumph Spitfire/Herald based LocUst for £250 given enough time on Ebay and on here

The finished car would be a shed (cue the wood jokes....) obviously........ but it's possibly a suitable challenge for the seriously tight fisted

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Yeah a book -
How to build a family saloon for £250 -

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and drive it to Sainsbury's

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He never said "Shop"!! You could rummage around in the bins, or even nick the lids for wet weather gear.....