Alfa-engined kit cars

[AlexMacx]

Sam_68 said:

They are rather pretty.It's a development of one of Peter Pellandine's designs, thus very competent in engineering terms.

... unfortunately it's one of the few cars I simply couldn't fit into comfortably enough to drive more than a couple of miles, despite being pretty average height and build, though that might have bee mainly due to the seats fitted in the demonstrator.

I wonder what the significance of the 'Voodoo Sportscars' sticker is? Voodoo have been trying to resurrect another very pretty car with Alfa power (the originaly Imp-based Voodoo from the early '70's) and own one of the Alfa based Raffo Tipo 12's...

Hi there, first time poster! The Voodoo sticker on the back of the car is a subsidiary of the owner's manufacturing company. Without wishing to steal Graham's thunder, he's bought up the molds and designs from Peter Pellandine (now in Australia) and is developing and improving the design for his race car and the some 32 owners of such a car, including me. ) I am rebuilding build Nr 3 of the original Pelland Coupe, whereas Voodoo Racing are racing a Kudos, which was a later development when Peter sold the original company, before emigrating. With me so far?

The car is powered by the Alfa flat four and is a completely fibreglass monocoque chassis with Alfa rear running gear and, usually, Triumph Spit or Herald front running gear and rack. Basic premise was to take the Alfasud/Sprint engine and move it to the rear, 'box included. Works well, with nice balance and good power transfer. As another poster noted, the driving position is sometimes awkward, but can be modified with a bit of work. The race car took out the molded seat completely and installed a bucket seat on adjusters. I'm contemplating that, but actually find the original mold fits me well anyway. Engine's out at present being 'tweaked' from the paltry 105BHP and I'm removing all the '90s-designed kit car bodging of the heating system, the cooling system and the nasty electrics. They are rare, but do occasionally come up for sale. There was one cabrio model built, which I nearly bought 25 years ago, but is apparently now owned by a doctor in the midlands, lucky chap. It was bright yellow, though.

Hope this helps. If you want to see the race car in action, here's another link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmyW0aVrR3Y&lr=...

If anyone's generally interested in the design or the history, there's a Pelland / Rembrandt Register website

http://www.pellandrembrandtregister.co.uk/Pages/Pe...

Cheers for reading, Alex

[jontysafe]

knightly said:

I have a 1.5 alfa sud-sprint motor in the rear of my UVA fugitive-4, its a road going sand rail on a Q plate, the engine is on an adaptor and a swing axle beetle gearbox, a cracking little engine at only 95bhp.......I have a 115bhp 1.7 8v ready to go in when the 1.5 go's bang.......check out www.fugitives.co.uk and look at the gallery section in the forum.

I'm wondering if thats my old one, sold as an unfinished project probably 20 years or so ago from Dorset. I'd really like another.

[OlberJ]

What's this 037 replica that is mentioned?

I fancied doing something based around a Mk1 Mr2 with a SC'd Impreza Engine but if there's a kit out there already?

[jimgiblett]

I think one of the best looking Alfa based (Nord twink engined) is the Pagano which is built by a friend of mine Jan Warg. It's not just a looker it drives well on road and track.

http://www.pagano.se/indexEN.html

It looks better with steels or wire wheels but Jan tracks his a lot so alloys make sense.

- Jim