Royh5366

Hi all I'm sure this will be the first of many posts seeking help...I'm busy getting parts and putting my '41 slat grill back together and i wondered if any one on the forum might have the details/dimension for the early tappet cover bolt (the extended back one) and the early MA style oil filler tube. I'm also after an early MB head (no jeep or willys markings) if any one has one either for sale or trade.I have a good freshly skimmed late war head which it would be a shame to bolt on if the correct one was available Thanks Roy

I guess it was this yard i came across this yard when i had been working at RAF Alconbury and then visited when it was open every other weekend, phone to confirm as i remember. It would be as it was being cleared getting on for twenty years ago and i was searching for Champ bits. I seem to remember scrambling over a mountain of unobtanium to get to bits and coming across a room with a load of hand wound air raid sirens (wish i'd bought some). There was a completely rotted out champ by the fence, probably what caught my attention in the first place with a black engine.....if i remember correctly. scary what sticks in your mind.

Hi I thought it was about time I posted my introduction; I’m Roy and live in the West Midlands (sounds like AA). I’m the proud owner of a’41 slat grill, or more accurately the dismantled parts that are steadily going back together, for around 6 months which fulfils a dream since being a kid. I bought her part completed, rolling chassis done and tub welded, from the US in October last year and she arrived in January with some more bits following in June. so things should be pretty straight forward. The rebuild should be further on but for the lousy weather and time. Still the engine’s nearly back together and I now have a transfer box, or at least the complete kit of parts. Next bit is the re-blasting of the tub since it wasn’t painted after the previous owner did it. She’s in good shape with the correct early chassis, tub, rims, pancake filter, full set of data plates, gauges and other good bits but ‘mission creep’ into the world of ‘correct’ keeps diverting funds away from just getting her together. The great big decision is what colour, I fancy sand any thoughts?……shame she’s too late for caunter pattern, Anyway she fills my need to build and collect things and follows old motorbikes, Austin champs (long gone) and a Camel Trophy Discovery that I recently discovered had been broken and crushed (very sad :-().