Guilty :-) Fairthorpe Electrons have a home now ...

Guilty :-) Fairthorpe Electrons have a home now ...

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Electron

Original Poster:

605 posts

218 months

Saturday 16th July 2011
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Excellent News !!!!! I have a Gilbern and the Owners Club Forum has a fairly regular set of contributors .. clearly the Pistonheads forum was under utilised.

Opening the forum up to accomodate a few lost souls seemed to be a fair request ...

I have a Fairthorpe Electron Minor .... no real forum for it

This is the car "as found" in about 1984 ....



This is the car more recently ...



Not sure if the Turners, Rochdales, GSMs and all the others will start to appear here ... lets see ...






heightswitch

6,316 posts

249 months

Tuesday 19th July 2011
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hiya Chris.
not heard from you in a while.
Hows the m series and the Gilbern Project going?
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Electron

Original Poster:

605 posts

218 months

Tuesday 19th July 2011
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Neil,

You found me :-)

Gilbern - a big challenge fitting the rollcage involving more fibreglass being cut away than I ever envisaged .... to be honest I had to stop and walk away ... that was earlier in the year.

TVR - I need to split the body from the chassis to move the engine 2" forward to cure the stupid engineering for the rear exhaust manifold exit ... will have to wait ...

Classic Clubmans - awaiting the chassis work ... thought farming the jobs out would accelerate things but didn't work out that way !!

The Fairthorpe Electron has an MOT and Tax but it's bl*ody raining all the time !!

Nick was up with Adrian dropping off the rear suspension for his 302 Taimar (my old Taimar - his old Mustang "melanged" into one ...

Oh and then there is the day job !

Cheers

Chris

heightswitch

6,316 posts

249 months

Thursday 21st July 2011
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You sound pretty busy then Chris.

I would like to see that Genie of yours one day. A Gilbern is a car I have always fancied as a sensible road car!
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Electron

Original Poster:

605 posts

218 months

Thursday 21st July 2011
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The forum renames and we get back to Gilberns :-)

Classic Le Mans next year is the target ....


kartman24

458 posts

250 months

Thursday 28th July 2011
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Hi chris long time since we spoke, well a year actually! This years Fairthorpe Gathering is only just over a week away at The Donington Collection on 7th August. Not sure if you have been getting my emails/messages, i know you are away a lot, like to hear about your classic Clubmans too, i have a Mallock MK3/4/5 for rebuild sometime in the future.
Will you be able to make it to Donington, we have 13 cars attending so far..........Martin