Yours being an early body shell Col it has the straight forward edge of upper crossmember near bellhousing,wheresas after I think mid 74 that crossmember had a recess back,made it a bit easier to get cogbox in and out…jim
Yeah, I know. It'll be me!Great photos thanks. Someone will be very pleased to use these in the future. We don't know who "posterity" is of course.
It does remind me how good our two R12 1.4 wagons were.
That is how the 395 transaxles work, this is an NG3. The R18 and Fuego has a hump that the gear lever is mounted on.If you want to save yourself the cutting and welding, I think there is another way of doing the linkages. You can move the gear stick joint at floor level (in line with the 'box control input) and use a yoke to transmit rotation to the box input. For/aft movements implemented normally. The yoke can run under the car, of course.
This would allow you to keep the floor as is and just make up a hump for the back of the g'box.
Not sure how reverse is selected on the NG snd if it would work with this arangement though.
Lets put it this way, I do lots of dressing of the welds. Welding on a bench is lot easier than welding on a thin car body.I think you know your welding COL! Filling little holes are not easy from where I sit.
I had a Virage the same colours as that in the mid 2000's that I dragged from a paddock next to a service station not to far from me. Looks like it is suffering from the same FeO2 problems that killed of my Virage. I had that Virage for about 5 years before the FeO2 got the better of it.Col, need another R12 wagon?
spotted this on the 4CV register fb, if interested reckon @JohnW can get you more details.
cheers
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Better to go straight to the person who posted it on FB I'd suggest. I see the double panel above the rear wheel arch has gone from the inside.... Definitely a parts car, but the trim and some doors are quite good, for example and it has those late wheel trims. And it has the tinted glass. Worth getting hold of if you could move it cheaply and had somewhere to put it. Mechanicals would be a bonus although in quite a few years of Virage and 1.4 R12 ownership, we never NEEDED mechanical parts. Great cars, R12 wagons, especially the late ones like this.Col, need another R12 wagon?
spotted this on the 4CV register fb, if interested reckon @JohnW can get you more details.
cheers
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Col, need another R12 wagon?
spotted this on the 4CV register fb, if interested reckon @JohnW can get you more details.
cheers
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There are some useful parts on that Virage. I have pretty much all the parts that i need for my restoration, they are in the shed somewhere, as long as don't throw anything out, give away or sell I should be good for parts.Better to go straight to the person who posted it on FB I'd suggest. I see the double panel above the rear wheel arch has gone from the inside.... Definitely a parts car, but the trim and some doors are quite good, for example and it has those late wheel trims. And it has the tinted glass. Worth getting hold of if you could move it cheaply and had somewhere to put it. Mechanicals would be a bonus although in quite a few years of Virage and 1.4 R12 ownership, we never NEEDED mechanical parts. Great cars, R12 wagons, especially the late ones like this.