As a quick background, Special Ed is a MightyBoy that I picked up cheap last year. The previous owner had spent over $2000 in mechanical repairs, and although the body was rough there was very little rust, and I never overlook a bargain.
He got the name Special Ed in reference to the Crank Yankers character, because as an automatic F5A he is "a bit slow". 
The original plan was to restore Ed to factory spec and have him as a partner to the Snot Rocket for car/ute shows. However after a few months of driving him around I decided that an MB with factory mechanicals is rubbish, and it had a few non-factory extras that would be difficult to reverse. (the sunroof for example!)
So what I have decided to do is turn Ed into a concept vehicle. Some of you might remember in the 70's/80's there was a fascination with producing cars that "might have been" - Torana XU2, Falcon Phase 4 GTHO, etc. Owners built vehicles that demonstrated what the manufacturer might have designed if they were able to continue a certain model. Given that the humble MB only had a short lifespan of 3 years in Australia, I essentially want to build something that might have existed into the early 90's if Suzuki had kept producing them - a Series II MightyBoy. (Series III if you include the first model we didn't get in Australia)
I'm sure this concept will evolve over time, but to start with I have made a list of modifications that Suzuki might have logically made to the MB. I base this list on the enhancements made to other Suzuki models that continued on after 1988.
In the end I want a ute that people will look at and think twice about whether it has been modified or is a rare example of a factory MB that never saw the light of day. Ideally I would like to make a "Works" Concept that essentially takes all the Alto Works RS/R parts and put them on an MB, but that's a project for next decade.
Progress pics will be available in the gallery:
http://www.tamon.org/gallery/v/members/ ... her/redmb/
