how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

[kenbaker]

would appreciate input -
ken

[peterboat]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

would appreciate input -
ken

The doors are two inches longer and another 2 inches in the tub behind the doors, mine is a swb model and I havent seen a LWB version otherwise I would have bought it!!

[chris_cussen]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

On my LWB cabrio the length of the door, measured along the crease is 3ft 1inch. The distance (approximately) from the dashboard to the tub is 3ft 10inches.

[Tony Stott]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

More visually I think the running board joint with the rear guards and rear door edge gives a clue, cannot remember what it is but someone will!

[danny_nelson]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

The back door edge line, more or less lines up with the joint between rear wing and running board on the LWB. On the SWB this is off set approx. 45mm/50mm. The door and the hood is longer on the LWB.

[kahawi]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

So, does this help? I think it makes ours a LWB then ?

(Drivers door measured 'along the crease').

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Sorry about the tape measure, I bought it in the Antipodes.

[danny_nelson]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

Yours is a LWB. There is a Blue Cabrio with a SOHC engine with yellow cam cover on ebay at the moment . There is a photo with one door open that shows a SWB very well.

[billjackson54]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

I wouldn't dream of entering this particular controversy when Danny has already replied...there are few if any of us more knowledgeable than he...but the car on eBay is very similar to mine, which I bought as an LWB car, but the door edge line very definitely doesn't line up with the joint between the rear wing and the running board. At Castle Combe last year, I met a very experienced old hand who suggested that mine was in fact a SWB...so I looked into it in more detail. On the "Frequently Asked Questions" regarding the Cabrio on this forum, definitive dimensions are given for the wheelbase of both SWB and LWB cars (measured hub to hub)....so I measured mine and compared my result to the forum detail (and with a friend who has a V8 Hunter, which he measured so that we could compare notes). I concluded that mine is definitely a LWB..despite the rear edge of the door being about 50mm forward of the joint between the rear wing and running board.

[Tony Stott]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

/\ That's what I thought, but not certain!

[danny_nelson]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

Hi Bill, the question related to Hunter models. Factory built, doors hung before the tail was fitted. Put together by the same builders time after time. The joint between rear wing and running board / rear door line can be applied to these cars. Of course non will be exactly the same (hand built) hence the( more or less), but the difference between SWB and LWB easy to see. Now while some Cabrio (home built) models will be the same, as above, there is a possibility that others may not. Like yours, the builder may have decided to mount the front wings further forward (personal choice) or for whatever reason. Fitting the tail before hanging the doors can result in a 10mm/ 12mm gap. Rear wings higher or lower to suit the eye of the builder, etc, etc There was a MOC member building a LWB car and trying to fit SWB panels. So with a Cabrio I would look at the length of door and with hood up length of hood line can be seen easily on a LWB. When you see the two together it is very easy to see the difference. Or in your case when you cannot tell the difference a measurement tells all.

[milliemarlin]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

Here's a SWB Cabrio for comparison. About 34" along the crease. You can just about see the join in the running board forward of the door shut line.
Paul

[b_caswell]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

Surely the easy way is to measure the wheelbase hub to hub??

[milliemarlin]

Re: how do you tell a swb hunter from a lwb hunter please ?

Surely the easy way is to measure the wheelbase hub to hub??

Most accurate, most useful, but you do need a measure, possibly an assistant and to know the dimensions for at least one type. A simple glance is all you need to tell the difference.
Paul