Dutton Kit Cars and their owners

January 2011 Blog Posts (3)

The Northern Duttoneer's Next meeting

The next Meeting of The Northern Duttoneer's is this coming Thursday 3rd at the usual place, The Bludell Arms, Chorley Old Road, Bolton / Horwich. BL6 6PY.

We'll be there from 8pm, the quizz starts at 9. Come along everyone welcome.

Added by The Northern Duttoneer's on January 27, 2011 at 10:05 — 2 Comments

Paul thomas dutton s3 1.8 turbo

Hi ! to all my fellow enthusiasts, I would like to thank you all on your comments about my dutton. The original plan was to buy 1 dutton and 1 nissan 200sx and put the 2 to gether. Best laid plans rarely work and only the engine and gearbox was used as at this time I wanted a quick project. The dutton was striped to a bare chassis, the chassis then had 2 x box member replaced, The engine was put in place so engine mounts could fabricated, The gear box cross member was made removeable and…

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Added by Paul Thomas on January 22, 2011 at 23:04 — 3 Comments

Project Hunk of Junk - Don't know my own strength (or cheap tools)

This evening after painting the diff casing with Hammerite. I was looking for a quick little task, I decided to fit the new metric wheel studs that had recently arrived from eBay. With my wheel nuts being blind nuts rather than open nuts, I thought I would press them in using the vice and a deep socket. Turning the vice handle, all was going well, the vice got a little stiff to turn, so I grabbed a length of tube to slip over the handle and then continued turning, the stud was progressing… Continue

Added by Dave Price on January 19, 2011 at 21:09 — 2 Comments