Something to keep the Sag company...

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tvrtuscans said:

OK Alex, I will 'suspend my disbelief' until then :-).

Re the Monaro, I wanted something that would create a "what the f**k was that" moment as it warped into the middle distance! This harks back to my old man, an auto engineer (what he didn't know about the internal combustion engine wasn't worth knowing!)....he stuck an aircraft supercharger in a brand new Ford Corsair...slightly lowered it, importantly made sure the thing would stop and then went and had some fun.... on one occasion a guy in a Healey wandered up to him and enquired what he had under the bonnet saying "I was doing over 100 and you went past me like I was going backwards"....happy days! Pick it up next week and can't wait!

Heh. Yeah, I'm not a turbo driver type. I like a bit of speed, but most of the time I'm mostly just tootling - hence the weirder cars are my preference. I really wanted something old style I could use for classic car meets and always fancied the Mantis because of the bonnet. Thus got it.

Have a Vixen, but that won't be on the road for a while, so...

[alex_gray255]

More polished up examples might be...

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[tvrtuscans]

alex_gray255 said:

So, Alex, whats the summary of what you have done so far??.... and key next steps (anyone would think I am a project manager!)

[alex_gray255]

Project Manager? What's that >_<

Current...

• Fibreglass repair - done
• Repaint - done
• Roof retrim - done
• Hydrolic clutch - done
• Slight chassis work - done
• Carbon Fibre repair - todo
• Interior retrim - todo
• Interior lighting redo - todo
• HIDs - todo
• Parking sensors - todo
• Smart rear view mirror - todo

Future...

• Chassis long term rust treatment

[tvrtuscans]

alex_gray255 said:

Project Manager? What's that >_<

Current...

• Fibreglass repair - done
• Repaint - done
• Roof retrim - done
• Hydrolic clutch - done
• Slight chassis work - done
• Carbon Fibre repair - todo
• Interior retrim - todo
• Interior lighting redo - todo
• HIDs - todo
• Parking sensors - todo
• Smart rear view mirror - todo

Future...

• Chassis long term rust treatment

All noted! Any thoughts about where you might get the rust treatment done?

[alex_gray255]

Yup. Marcos chassis is similar design to the TVR ones, so I'm just handling it in
the same way.

TVR design is easier/cheaper to handle though. Marcos did a slight mistake here
as they bonded the body to the chassis, rather than bolt it on.

I'm also going to try and redo that at the same time.

[alex_gray255]

External now done. Just started to clone the interior of my Sag into the Marcos...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMDbsicSObw