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Tooby, an Australian Export IIB

This is Tooby, so named because he is a IIB FC, Owned by Diana, and residing in Sydney Australia. It’s currently a ‘Work In Progress’ rebuild, including fitment of a 3 litre Rover P5 engine, and having a King Cab setup made up. The final plan for Tooby is to use him for carrying 80” series 1’s to and from shows.

Chassis number 33100105A

Diana writes;

Just a few pics of Tooby an early Series 2B I acquired a few months ago. The first 3 pics were as he stood at my friends warehouse in the first you can see bits of the flat black paint he ended up with and the bonneted control manifold/pipe.

In the second pic you can almost see the 21" extension in the rear chassis rails, I think I will re-make the rear crossmember. It is badly damaged with some rot in the middle. Apparently he spent some time working off a beach in Tasmania which would account for the rot.

Note the 7.50 tyres and on the front right a 231601 5" rim, all in the flat black colour.

The last couple of pics are as he stands today. Most of the horrible black has been removed from the panels he is keeping. Note the horribly dented roof. That is good compared to when I got it, it was completely concave. There is a replacement bulkhead out of pic.

The newly acquired trayback is placed in the correct position at the end of the short top chassis rails. This leaves me sufficient room to extend the cab by 18 inches to the rear (and the reason for the station wagon roof and County rear quarter panels on the tray which are being cut down to make the extension). This will allow me to carry my dogs along with me, and still leave the passenger seat vacant and them not in a dog box under the tray. The 18 inch extension also removes the need to have a cut out in the tray for the gear stick.

The tray is 11 feet 6 inches just enough for an 80" fully enclosed over the tray and balanced over the rear axle. Also a bit of luck it the chassis extension is correct for the new tray. With the extra chassis length I have even considered using my spare S2B rear axle casing as a lazy axle behind the driven one. The other panels on the tray are a tub and seat box for my 1951 restoration which are about to stripped of paint. The 1955 in the background belongs to the PO of Tooby and is for sale. (It too lost somewhere to live when he moved his business.)

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