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Hillman Hunter possible restoration, advice

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    #32
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    sogood wrote: »
    Hi and good luck with the GT6, there aren't too many of them about. I missed one last year and settled on the MGB GT. It was originally built in 1968 and I have the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust certificate for it, along with a ton of documentation, service records, repairs etc. and a heap of concours events certificates that it got in it's previous life in the UK.

    It underwent a total rebuild in the UK before coming to Ireland and is now registered as a 79 car, with brown log book and all the relevant paperwork.

    As I said, it's just a project and I won't necessarily adopt a "purist" approach, as I do with my daily driver. Some improvements and modifications are called for, but nothing crazy!

    Thanks for the interest and any advice/input would be much appreciated, although it will be well into the new year before I really start to get my hands dirty!

    Can I ask why it isn't registered as a '68 car? Was it imported in 1979?


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    #33
    corktina
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    Good luck with the Hunter. I remember they were introduced about the same time as the mk2 Cortina and I had a lot of trouble telling them apart


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    #34
    unfit2006
    Registered Users Posts: 541 ✭✭✭unfit2006


    I remember them well myself. They were the car of choice of many folk down here around the Midland counties. They were a "great car to tow" as was often said about them. I never drove owned one myself as I was from a Ford background and you tended to follow one marque or the other in those days of strong brand loyalty. I remember that they tended to have good well respected dealerships around these parts.

    This old post from another forum clearly sets out the sales position they held in 1974.

    http://miniclub.ie/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=1527
    corktina wrote: »
    Good luck with the Hunter. I remember they were introduced about the same time as the mk2 Cortina and I had a lot of trouble telling them apart


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    #35
    sogood
    Registered Users Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭sogood


    corktina wrote: »
    Can I ask why it isn't registered as a '68 car? Was it imported in 1979?

    The car is a bit like "Triggers' Brush". Going through the reams of paperwork shows that it (or some MG) was originally built in 1968. Then in 1983 in it underwent a pretty extensive restoration. Then in 1979 it was
    rebuilt/ remanufactured/ reborn using a variety of original and new parts. The documentation from one particular UK show/event, dated August 17th 1980,states that it was "rebuilt from scrap shell". At his stage it still bore its' original registration number.

    So it appears that it was re-registered in 1979 in the UK, but still on it's original plates. Then, when it was imported into Ireland in 1990, as shown on the Vehicle Duty Certificate Form (MV4-1A), it was imported as a 1997 car and got its' '79 XX XX plate.

    So, you see what I mean by "Tiggers Brush" It's the original car except with a different chassis and other mods, including the fact that it had been converted from the twin 6 volt + earth to the standard single 12 volt - earth.

    It's a minefield given the number of changes and variations that seem to exist the MGs' production run. Hoping this answers your question and that it doesn't prompt major debate, asking questions that I can't answer, as I have a headache now and must go and lie down.

    At the end of the day, I have my project car and that will do me just fine, especially as I already stated that in this particular respect, I'm not going to be adopting and entirely "purist" approach.


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    #36
    larchill
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭larchill


    This thread holds memories for me: we had a Hunter in the 70s. It was a 1973 Hillman Hunter DL in Grasshopper Green. It was bought in Kennys Garage trading as KMK Motors Mary St Drogheda. The DL was the most basic model of which there were pleanty @ the time. It had the 1500cc engine.


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    #37
    jimmyw
    Registered Users Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭jimmyw


    Nice looking car here, in great condition.I would love to own a car like that, but any age hunter would do me.



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    #38
    Red Kev
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    I wonder where that car is based ? Malta or Cyprus probably. The seat covers are very typical for hotter, dustier climates, easier to wipe down.

    They also have this interesting Morris van.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cmukbau69c


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    #39
    ianobrien
    Registered Users Posts: 2,756 ✭✭✭ianobrien


    Red Kev wrote: »
    I wonder where that car is based ? Malta or Cyprus probably. The seat covers are very typical for hotter, dustier climates, easier to wipe down.

    They also have this interesting Morris van.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cmukbau69c

    Watch the passing traffic at 1:59......


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    #40
    jca
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,585 ✭✭✭jca


    ianobrien wrote: »
    Watch the passing traffic at 1:59......

    Morris marina. There's a 1.3 one knocking around locally on a ZV plate. I just can't manage to get a decent pic of it.


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    #41
    larchill
    Registered Users Posts: 371 ✭✭larchill


    The 1973 Hillman Hunter (SIY799) from earlier in this thread is up on Motorcheck.ie as 1977. Now I know that '73 Louth nos were at RIY/SIY! We'd a Hunter @ home: RIY 797, & my Godfather had an escort estate: SIY 73 :confused:


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    #42
    Red Kev
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    jimmyw wrote: »
    Nice looking car here, in great condition.I would love to own a car like that, but any age hunter would do me.


    So its based in Malta. Yours for £3500.

    http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C651837


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    #43
    The Red Ace
    Registered Users Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭The Red Ace


    rugbyman good luck with the restoration, in the 70s my friend had a GT Hunter with a Holbay engine, extremely heavy in petrol but could it go, anyone remember seeing the hunter with one of these, YIN 18 I am sure has long since rusted in peace


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    #44
    Lord Riverside
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Lord Riverside


    Rugbyman, I love Hilman Hunters, but haven't seen one in years. I hope you manage to preserve one more for posterity and bring her back to life. Good luck.


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    #45
    BigWill
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭BigWill


    Resurrecting an old thread here but just wondering if you ever got the hunter restored ?


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    #46
    rugbyman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,783 ✭✭✭rugbyman


    BigWill wrote: »
    Resurrecting an old thread here but just wondering if you ever got the hunter restored ?

    Hello Big Will, no its still sitting here among others. It would cost three times its worth to do. But i love the number, i would not rule it out.
    Regards..


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    #47
    Liamo57
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    The greatest heap of ****e ever made. Why in the name of Jaesus would you want to restore an unreliable rust bucket.


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    #48
    JabbaTheHut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭JabbaTheHut


    Liamo57 wrote: »
    The greatest heap of ****e ever made. Why in the name of Jaesus would you want to restore an unreliable rust bucket.

    Wo lad. This is the classic car section of Boards. To some, like yourself, that car might be an unreliable rust bucket, but to others it's much more than that. And that goes for most classic cars.


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