new Nippy owner

[Dennis Nicholas]

Welcome Ralph.  My Nippy special is one of those with a BMC A engine.  Started as a wreck with no engine so fitted a 948 cc BMC A engine and gearbox.  Piston broke in that at 70,000+ miles including daily transport and MCC classic Trials so now fitting BMC A+ 1275 cc (1300) mated (by a kit) to a Toyota T50 box.  Same dimension and easy swap with modified box mount. So I call it a Nippy BM7(T) special 
My boot lid wood frame was too broken to use and my wood steaming to bend was a failure so I made a frame from half inch angle iron by making many cuts on one side of angle and bending to shape then welding up cuts.......alloy angle would be lighter.  I extended the frame to the middle of the lid to mount the spare wheel carier which pokes through the skin so the spare wheel mounts on the outside of the lid leaving me more room for luggage in the boot.  You will need to find someone with an "English Wheel' wheeling machine to make the DOMED skin for the frame so it all looks right.

Keep getting error file too large so pictures will not add.  Will try on new post.

Dennis

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Nippy BM7(T) climbing "Beggars Roost" famous MCC trials hill. Showing boot with spare wheel.

Well mysteriously it worked that time!!!!



Dennis