Saker cars in NZ

[kylie]

Hi in a year or so when we have some more space at home I am looking for another car, was going to get another exotic but have been leaning more and more towards a track car now. I was over at a guys workshop last night who builds the replica F40's, very clever guy and he leaned me towards the Saker, since I could not quite afford the 200K for the F40 The saker website is www.saker.co.nz they look the business and apparently the build quality of the chassis etc is very good, any thoughts, seen them?

[kylie]

Hi, what did cost him to put the saker together? Some of them do look good.

[kylie]

jamieheasman said:

Actually the one car that is built in NZ, is mostly original and very good quality is the Beattie. They're bloody expensive though. I think the basic Saker shape could be tidied-up relatively easily. There are too many small panels making up the body and I'm sure a couple of these could be combined or the joins hidden. The front air-dam for instance should be incorporated into the nose and if necessary a seperate splitter added but without trying to make it look like part of the whole. Also, whilst I appreciate the effort of trying to put in opening windows (something the Ultima and those Ferrari P2 replicas tend to lack) the flat sided styling is at odds with the rest of the roof line. The front and rear lights scream 70s kit-car - what's wrong with either taking the lights from a production vehicle as a whole and moulding them in or making a pod arrangement to fit non-descript projector lights as Ultima have done and as is common practice on the front of TVRs in the aftermarket arena? Lastly, smooth off the straight edges and conceal any door handles or hinges. Voila! Obviously I don't want to take away the cars style or character but it's so close to be a good looking car (IMHO) that is annoys me they haven't gone the extra yards to make the body and those little styling touches that much more convincing. I'm probably just being arrogant! Seeing as you're the composites expert Kylie, how about doing them a revamp?

You are on to it I thought about refining the front of the saker to look more like the ultima, just smoother lines and your right they do look dated, but I would be doing it just for me as doing this kinda of work is tricky, time consuming and costly. I just want a track hack, so it doesn't have to be that clean looking. The prices of the kits look very tempting, and I would eventually replace as many panels as I could in CF inside and out.

[kylie]

A Lexus all alloy V8, reliable light weight power plant. My partner has put one in his 32 Roadster not finished yet but in. Will do the business

[kylie]

He got stick about it first, but after everyone seen it all polished and its potential every has Will post some pics if his motor when I get home after work.

[kylie]

kylie said:

He got stick about it first, but after everyone seen it all polished and its potential every has Will post some pics if his motor when I get home after work.

Whoops forgot to post pics, Simon's Rod half built.