Something to keep the Sag company...

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...just bought this one to keep the Sag company in the garage, but will be more used...

Same sort of colour...

Edited by alex_gray255 on Thursday 22 September 14:04

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It needs a good polish. Been sitting around in storage too large. Just started to look at "reactivating" it.

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BuzzBillsberry said:

Amy Taylor's (Tamora and VX220 owner) dad Steve Taylor has a couple of these it might be worth the pair of you chatting further.

Buzz

Good idea. The car needs a bit of serious TLC to get it back up to spec, but once that is done I'll start to reach out to
Marcos folks.

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Not at the moment. I need to decide what to do with this. Either LS it or add Vortex SC and the hardened extra bits to the engine. Then can tune it.

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If you tune them up to 500 BHP as out of the Factory, they go bang. They need hardened cams then can handle it.

Mine is - according to info given from ex-owner - 1/30 and originally owned by Jem Marsh.

Supposed to be a very good example, although needs some TLC as needs some repairs on the bodywork and CF bits
doing, but nothing major. Will have that sorted out soon, then look at tuning.

Don't want to make it a major project car. Just tidy it up and add some BHP.

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Yes, I know what you mean. I'm already trying to stop myself saying - do this, do that

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Yes, no problem with that thought. I like them because they are so odd looking - they standout
more like the Sag.

They are a marmite car that's for sure. If you see it - you'll see it

Monaro - nice choice. Bit eurobox for me, but nice car.

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And TBH - the interior and dullness of the paint don't do it any favours atm.

When it is tidied up, it should look a lot better than the pictures do atm.

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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...

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More polished up examples might be...

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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

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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.

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

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