About a month ago I bought a new car. I say new, it's actually quite old. Anyway yes it's ugly but I've never had so much
fun driving a car before 
I've taken it around some great tracks and roads around my area and it's like driving a go-kart. The reactions from people are hilarious
including lots of dropped jaws. I bought it as I saw it locally and had a test drive in it. I want to learn more about rebuilding engines, something
which I didn't do with my MK so I want to rebuild the scamps engines and tidy the whole car up for a small project, something to do 
Pics:
Feel free to laugh, most people do 
I love it
My son wants one as his first car. I love the hard top made out of an old land rover hard top...
can you remove the top for the summer??
ditch
P.S. brought a real smile to my face and i needed that. trying to move house and also mine and my fiance's grandmothers both died this
week.
Ah yes the Scamp - great name for a mini based Moke type thingy.
You will probably get used to rebuilding the engine in that as they never seem to last too long - something to do with the gearbox being in the engine
sump and knocking the big ends out with all the swarf off the gears i think.
You 'll soon get sick of it
Cheers
Mark
ps just noticed - it seems to have a lot of white foam leaking out from underneath it - do they all do that?
Cheers
Mark
thought the 'foam' was airbrushed in to give the sense of speed??
Beast i like it. Put a metro turbo lump in it!!!
Yep that looks like a right larf!!!!
Nice one!
thats begging for a k series conversion 1.4 with a carb from a 92-93 metro
Moolakid: theres nowt wrong with the A series engine! Good bit of kit!!!
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Originally posted by ditchlewis
can you remove the top for the summer??
it looks like a land rover with ishoos
cheep to inshure thou
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it looks like a land rover with ishoos
Looks like a Mk 1 they've (cunningly) tried to disguise as a landy...
More for sale here
Not my cup of tea sorry. Defo looks like a big bad landy has porked a mini moke and this is the offspring though
If you get a minilite wheel to replace the odd offside front one you have let me know as I need one like that!
Doesn't look like a scamp - I'd say it's an Anderson Cub (moke copy).
http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/cub.html
Looking it up on the rac it's registered manufacturer is "Leyland Cars" with no model name. Hope the new computerised MOTs don't
give you problems with that.
[Edited on 10/2/06 by iank]
That's just goddamn fugly IMHO Like they say though....... Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
PS - The beholder should have gone to Specsavers.
Surely all 12 previous owners can't be wrong
Well I suppose they can .
Will look better without the doors/hardtop and a lick of bright yellow or NATO green paint.
Great fun for those that don't give a toss what others think 
{Does anyone know much about mokes/scamps? What's the difference?}
Don't know much about the different types of Scamps, but AFAIK the Moke was the original Austin/Morris version and had a pressed steel type
monocoque, not a box section chassis....hence they have mostly rotted away.
mate at college had a scamp (rebuilt it from a effing wreck!) with a tweaky metro turbo engine in it and a Jack Knight box, went surprisingly well and
was right hoot in the summer!
MAD!
Put a bike engine in it!
Don't tempt me
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Originally posted by iank
Doesn't look like a scamp - I'd say it's an Anderson Cub (moke copy).
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
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Originally posted by iank
Doesn't look like a scamp - I'd say it's an Anderson Cub (moke copy).
Definately a Scamp, look at the square wheel arches.
I put a Moke front on a MK1
Scamp many years ago. It may be the same one, I'm off to find some pictures!
Well. No sign of the reg plate and I can't remember it.....it was about 1984! I've got a great Guinness jumper (knitted by my Mum) and my
mate Andy looks suitably deranged. The remains of a Herald Estate in light-blue adorn the garden. We used to collect them and scrap them for fun,
although a Convertible Herald in Midnight Blue donated it's chassis for my Burlington Arrow.
Cool. What engine did it have in it?
A little 998 I think.
Check out those Weller Steel wheels and Colway M&S Tyres!!!
Two-Pack red paint and we glued ribbed rubber mat all over the floors. I also remember that we put the headlights at a kind of random width in that
home-made front panel and then decided to fit a genuine moke grille. Needless to say it wouldn't fit between the lights and we had to cut and
shut it....not easy.