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Ouch! Classic rip off. At least they could have put doors in it having ripped off the moulding. Mind you I always fancied a G20 as a road car if they could have sorted the windscreen- but looks like they have had some issues with that horrible little bolt on.
Edited by blitzracing on Friday 25th July 18:44
The G20 was a technology step forward over the G27 and G33 chassis wise as the body become part of the structure to stiffen things up, over a the body simply dangling over the chassis on the 33 and 27, so its not the same beast. Also the lack of doors add a lot of strength between the front and rear of a car with no roof. I dont think the G20 race car series would have run as long as it did if the chassis did not work.
Had a good look at an ex G20 race car at the weekend- this is a whole different ball game to the G27 and G33. There is a massively strong roll cage and space frame chassis holding the whole lot together, and a paper thin GRP body just to make it look nice. I cant think that chassi flex would ever be an issue here. The roll cage is part of the car, so you cant unbolt it, so to convert it to road use would take a lot on angle grinding to remove the upper half of the cage and put in a couple of hoops behind the seats. Access to the seats is difficult if you are at all tubby with the cage in place.
Yeah, I kick myself for getting rid of it. Found a load of build photos on a cd the other night, right from building the kit originally. I've had an empty garage for more than 6 months with no toys to play with, starting to get to me. Been trying to find an old G20 junior for sale but seem to be rare as chickens teeth, I would definately build another one! One concilation, my mates blue G20 coupe racer has seen the light of day recently, looks like he'll be doing a season next year.
g20v6 said:
Yeah, I kick myself for getting rid of it. Found a load of build photos on a cd the other night, right from building the kit originally. I've had an empty garage for more than 6 months with no toys to play with, starting to get to me. Been trying to find an old G20 junior for sale but seem to be rare as chickens teeth, I would definately build another one! One concilation, my mates blue G20 coupe racer has seen the light of day recently, looks like he'll be doing a season next year.
Is the blue one the car that Spadge had before he disappeared (or the website did?). Had a lot of cutouts in the bonnet, IIRC.Two G20s in the classifieds at the moment on PH - a racer at £5k and a demo car at about £10k
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