Old shell onto 4x4 chassis

[LansonJay]

Guys, hoping for some help here, has anyone put an old body shell onto the running gear of a 4x4.

I've got an old disco, and an old classic mini shell.

People have done it before as the pics are on Google.

Hoping someone can help with the legalities.

I already have a classic mini with a lotus elise engine and box in the front.

Want something big and brash

Cheers all

[LansonJay]

It's the IVA i was worried about.

Im losing the rear section of the chassis, I'm looking to lift the chassis height to get a level floor.

Same with the front, relocation of the fan and oil cooler etc means the front can be shortened too.

Wheels are as near the corners as I can get, the the gap between chassis and shell will be enough to clear wheels.

Hope that made sense.

[LansonJay]

I can see all the IVA stuff on line, I don't want to have to compromise and try to scrape through the 8 point rule.

I'd planned to use my old disco as a sacricial experiment.

Get everything working and then but another, mot it for the year and then swap all my bits off the old one onto the newly mot'ed one, if that makes sense.

I can't see anything about the legalities of changing it over during its mot. Then as it's been seen knocking around how does the mot man deal with it?

There's a body shop that has donr the same. He's used a newer mini onto a hilux chassis.
He's kept it as a hilux. But has kept the chassis intact from what I can see. I guess that means RAV, but how does it work with the cut and shut clause?

[LansonJay]

Thanks Andy, party frock, I like that.

I didn't know you couldn't finish using the mot, I'm guessing the bloke with the hilux has done exactly what you said.
Hes left the chassis intact so to use the RAV route.

One of our guys did the SJ route the other year but didn't re-mot it so its gone by the wayside.

Guess I'm going to have to read up on the IVA rules,