RE: PH Carpool: Hawk Stratos

[Krikkit]

Already got my heart set on building one of these one day. Lovely.

[jamespink]

Great job on the build, it looks (and doubtless sounds) fabulous! However having seen Clarkson squeezing in and struggling to drive it (very SWB, silly small cockpit, duff brakes, crazy steering) I concluded you would have to be a tiny rally driving guru to unleash even a road 3 litre version of it. Maybe that's what explains the 1000 mile total?

[JNR77]

Well done stunning work, my only critism would be to fit an age relating number plate.

As for building a 250GTO you either go mega bucks aluminum body on say a 250GTE chassis or one of those dreadful kits bolted to a Datsun Z. I am surprised no one has made a faithful GRP replica on a spaceframe chassis like the Daytona Cobras.

[woof]

Love - want one, but would never seriously part with my money, coz they have very little resale value, unless you can find someone to buy it - which takes me back to the beginning of the sentence - love - want one !

[Dave Hedgehog]

thats an instant 10

[hedgeperson]

I've been looking into these myself,love em. Were this car around April next year I'd bite his hand off.
Cheers, Hedge

[BOR]

That's really impressive. Not much in the text about how it drives though.

The other thing that struck me, is whether it would not make more sense to use running gear from a newer car with a more plentifull supply of donor parts.

Anyway, very desirable, although the rally rep style isn't what I would choose.

[rohrl]

Lovely looking thing.

You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.

[peterg1955]

jamespink said:

Great job on the build, it looks (and doubtless sounds) fabulous! However having seen Clarkson squeezing in and struggling to drive it (very SWB, silly small cockpit, duff brakes, crazy steering) I concluded you would have to be a tiny rally driving guru to unleash even a road 3 litre version of it. Maybe that's what explains the 1000 mile total?

Friend of mine from Sussex has a Hawk Stratos with a tuned 3 litre Alfa v6 in it (around 250bhp now I think), he finished it a couple of years ago and he's already put around 10,000 miles on it, been over to France twice and only last weekend was up in North Wales with it... I've driven it and it wasn't that different to my old VX220, the boot space is about the same as that car too!

[philkermeen]

rohrl said:

Lovely looking thing.

You can run it without the bodywork too if you like. Later ones even had a second set of lights inside so they'd still be road legal sans rear clamshell.

Thats an awesome pic, nice car too!

[rob.e]

That looks super.

Ditto - i'd be interested in some blurb around how it handles - ie mid-engined, short wheel base might be a handfull etc.. and whether its possible to get it set up for some sweet handing with some chassis tweaks?

[ChrisJ.]

One sold recently:
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3991867.htm

[Tuna]

Huge fan of the Stratos, and great to see such a good example. Is anything happening to make it easier to source the parts, or is it just going to get harder and harder to make a replica?

[LotusOmega375D]

Is it LHD like all the originals? That's the instant give-away for me. The steering wheel on a Stratos is so pushed over to the centre of the cockpit, that you may as well go LHD for that authentic look anyway.

[Krikkit]

LotusOmega375D said:

Is it LHD like all the originals? That's the instant give-away for me. The steering wheel on a Stratos is so pushed over to the centre of the cockpit, that you may as well go LHD for that authentic look anyway.

Iirc the Hawk kits come as L or RHD, as preferred.

ETA: £250 option for LHD according to their site, how current their pricing is I don't know!

[blindswelledrat]

Fastdruid said:

blindswelledrat said:

Fastdruid said:

decent GT40 built kits go for money.

What other method of exchange is commonly used with cars?

Hahahaha. You're so funny.

Peanuts. Like what you'd pay for a s/h Porsche 911 for example.

TOuche.

[marshall100]

Awesome stuff. Would love to have the balls to do something like this, and I guess if I did my wife would cut them off.....

[sircoops]

gorgeous! 10/10

[Fastdruid]

marshall100 said:

Awesome stuff. Would love to have the balls to do something like this, and I guess if I did my wife would cut them off.....

My justification is that I *could* be down the pub spending the same amount of money...

I told her "At least this way you know where I am and I'm not getting into any trouble."

Although she does sometimes tut and ask what the most recent parcel is "this time".

[loudlashadjuster]

Lovely job.

Crying out for some more period plates to fool those of us that lack the knowledge to identify an original at a glance though, no?