Whatever happened to the new chassis ideas

[Gazzab]

Hawkeye1922 said:

Mr Tank said:

I spoke to Richard at the NEC last year and he was talking about £3K to £3.5K for a basic Chassis was he still thinking the same?

Nope - a fair bit more than that - he said he doesn't have a final figure yet but it may well start with a 5

That's a lot of money for a few tubes of metal.. I guess it's to pay back the effort for jig build etc
Shame someone doesn't just grab the original jig..?
At £5k plus then you'd have to have a very very bad chassis to consider.. Would be worth buying a 2nd cerb at that price and strip it..?

[Hawkeye1922]

Gazzab said:

That's a lot of money for a few tubes of metal.. I guess it's to pay back the effort for jig build etc
Shame someone doesn't just grab the original jig..?
At £5k plus then you'd have to have a very very bad chassis to consider.. Would be worth buying a 2nd cerb at that price and strip it..?

Yes - it would be pretty difficult to write them off when bad ones (like mine!) can be repaired for <£3k. Does the original jig still exist then?

[Gazzab]

Think the original is in Germany..?

[OutlawFlat4]

Thought I would resurrect this thread as I was wondering if after all this time someone had found/made a jig to be able to offer new chassis.....

What happened to the originals?

[aide]

I believe Adrian at Central TVR bought the original Cerbera chassis jig recently.

[OutlawFlat4]

aide said:

I believe Adrian at Central TVR bought the original Cerbera chassis jig recently.

So we might see some new chassis hitting the market soon - nice!

[NilsP]

Check Verpoorten Technik Automotive.
They supply cerbera chassis, even a full stainless option.
About £7k fitted for the stainless one.

Check their FB page. They do some awesome work.
Kinda sucks they're located in bulgaria of something like that.

[OutlawFlat4]

NilsP said:

Check Verpoorten Technik Automotive.
They supply cerbera chassis, even a full stainless option.
About £7k fitted for the stainless one.

Check their FB page. They do some awesome work.
Kinda sucks they're located in bulgaria of something like that.

Do these guys have a jig then?

[NilsP]

Think so. Maybe that's the famous German jig.
As they are Germans

[FarmyardPants]

If that's £7k fitted as in drive in, drive out, for a stainless chassis, that seems quite reasonable.

[OutlawFlat4]

FarmyardPants said:

If that's £7k fitted as in drive in, drive out, for a stainless chassis, that seems quite reasonable.

....but you have to factor in the cost (and logistics) of getting your car to Germany.......

[scotty_d]

I wonder what the price is to buy a chassis, I could be tempted to drive over and bring it home on the roof of the daily driver, make a holiday out the trip!

[OutlawFlat4]

would it be possible to make a jig from a chassis?

[F1SERB]

I was talking to a Belgian guy who has a company that on Facebook recently stated he hopes to have a new chassis available for the Cerbera on sale by the middle of next year
He ball-parked me 6k for a new zink plated,powder coated one fitted
Its on the Cerbera owners pages somewhere

[NilsP]

F1SERB said:

I was talking to a Belgian guy who has a company that on Facebook recently stated he hopes to have a new chassis available for the Cerbera on sale by the middle of next year
He ball-parked me 6k for a new zink plated,powder coated one fitted
Its on the Cerbera owners pages somewhere

I think that's the Verpoorten technik i was talking about.
His name sounds kind of belgian. But the workshop is located somewhere in bulgary or hungary or something like that.
They have them in steel, zinc plated or stainless

[scerbera]

I am seriously thinking of making a jig from my cerb with my brother who could make new chassis.

I was thinking 2k ish powder coated. Would we have many takers?

[RFC1]

scerbera said:

I am seriously thinking of making a jig from my cerb with my brother who could make new chassis.

I was thinking 2k ish powder coated. Would we have many takers?

Sorry, but why are you thinking of doing this ??.

[scerbera]

Well, because we can, or could, and i'd get a shiny new chassis, and so could others if there was a demand. I don't need a new one exactly but in a few years time it would be on the agenda i think.

6k for a cerb chassis is daylight robbery to be perfectly honest although obviously a niche market. If i'm more than likely to make a jig to replace mine then why not sell them also. At two thousand something there is plenty in it for it to be worthwhile doing.

[jamieduff1981]

I think if the quality was as required then people would have your hand off for £2000. Very few will commit though until there is evidence that the jig exists and an example chassis has been fabricated and proven to fit the body tub.

[OutlawFlat4]

As Jamie said, I'm sure most would have one at that price if they were done properly.