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« Reply #30 on: October 28, 2004, 09:45:14 pm » |
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I thought the "D" was Developments?
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« Reply #31 on: October 28, 2004, 09:59:15 pm » |
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Having just had a quick surf around....You are correct Mark..... it is actually GT Developments.
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Steve Pyro
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« Reply #32 on: October 29, 2004, 01:16:34 pm » |
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Mr Brown - I think Wishy was being a tad sarcastic... Should take hi to task over flapping fibre glass & filler   I may well be able to talk some of our merry band into bringing their small bodied / large engined cobras along. Oh, new development - Andy "2 cobras" is now Andy "3 cobras" - the bastard  |
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« Reply #33 on: October 29, 2004, 08:43:51 pm » |
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Oooohhh... this could be a fun mix of kit!
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« Reply #34 on: October 29, 2004, 09:08:27 pm » |
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Looks like it could be quite interesting......an Alfa/Cobra day. Although I did suggest that no plastic bodied cars can enter for the CA Day........I might just be wrong in this case  Wishy |
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« Reply #35 on: October 29, 2004, 10:34:23 pm » |
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seeing your pics and vid make me want to bring the Transam for a blast.Looks a bit narrow though and the run off looks non existent
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« Reply #36 on: October 29, 2004, 11:27:33 pm » |
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I've taken a Camero round there.... My god they dont build those for corners do they |
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« Reply #37 on: October 29, 2004, 11:28:51 pm » |
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no but mine has been modified to go round corners!!
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« Reply #38 on: October 30, 2004, 01:26:33 pm » |
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Spoke to the guy I know with the GTD R42. The D, as Mark says, stands for Developments. Incidently, this guy also happens to be the GTD40 Club Vice-Chairman! There website is worth a look, www.gtd40club.co.uk . For those not sure about the GTD R42, see below. |
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« Reply #39 on: November 01, 2004, 02:51:15 pm » |
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seeing your pics and vid make me want to bring the Transam for a blast.Looks a bit narrow though and the run off looks non existent
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PM, definitley narrow and nowhere to hide on the outside if it all goes wrong  A bit more space on the inside sections though. The track is short and requires above all else a good set of stoppers if you give you car any sort of real stick. I managed to ruin one set of fast road pads and a pair of front discs in a day there. GREAT fun though |
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« Reply #40 on: November 02, 2004, 07:22:49 pm » |
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Thanks for the info guys.
The GT40 has to be one of the greatest sportscar designs, it still looks fabulous to me. How the owners get around the supermarket car park I don't know, and where do they put their kids, golf clubs and prescription medicines?
It raises a question I've pondered on for a while; well, at least during moments of intense constipation. Moments, if only. When's a kit car not a kit car?
A few years ago a kit car was, to me at least, a synonym for lash up and/or death trap. I remember seeing "Cobras" based on Cortina chassis with XJ12 lumps and other variations. I recall giving a lift to a guy at Calais one year, his "Cobra" had stripped the diff and drive shafts when he tried a burn out...
As the market matured the term kit-car seemed to get phased out, and now we have 'replicas'. I think I take the line that unless something has been reproduced bolt for bolt then, by definition it's not a replica. A couple of the cars on that GTD40 site looked a little like 'replicas of kit cars' to me, and I don't think I'd be a comfortable passenger. But there's so much money and time put into replicas now, you've got to give them some respect, both for the dedication of their owners and the quality of the end result. There's no answer of course, but I got a -ponderin' when I saw an ad for a D-Type which looked like the donkeys undercarriage to me. The detailing was spot on, and it looked like a proper job. Mind you, it was on an ally back-bone chassis, so it probably handled a little different from the real thing. Probably better. I was seriously tempted but didn't go for it in the end, I think it was the thought of all those 'is it a real one mate' situations, but I'm used to getting those, in the Gents at least.
I can't help thinking though, that I probably missed out on a bit of memorable motoring ownership.
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« Reply #41 on: November 02, 2004, 08:06:29 pm » |
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Good points H, The kit-car industry likes to call them 'component cars' now! I know how much my Dax Tojeiro (cobra) cost me to build and it would approach the GDP of a small country! There are no Cortina bits in it, the suspension, steering and axle components come from an XJS V12 Jaguar which are built like a substansially fabricated outdoor privy and the engine and transmission are pure Detroit iron (Pontiac specifically). The chassis is considerably stronger in flex and torsion than an original being made from parts of the Forth Bridge and the body is fibreglass. On that note, this is obviously not a replica in the purists eye as I don't have a flexi chassis with hand fettled aluminium paneling. Also, having a Pontiac V8 (6.6 litres) rather than a 289 (4.7) or 427 (7.0) Ford could be seen as sacrilege to some people. Also, I have (horror of horrors) an automatic transmission. However, this was sitting on the back of the Pontiac engine in our old Trans Am and, as the Pontiac motor develops wads of low down torque anyway, who needs a gear box. My left leg gently rests on a platform in the footwell (and invariably goes to sleep). To cap it all, I don't have any of those 'cobra', 'powered by Ford', '427', 'Shelby' or other pretend badges and scripts on the car, just a descreet badge that proudly proclaims 'Dax'.  |
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BigH
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« Reply #42 on: November 03, 2004, 10:34:37 am » |
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Hi Steve,
Small countries GDP, I think we've been there...
There's a Cobra specialist not far from me (he did the repairs on my car after the shennanigans outside of 'Hells Gate'), and when I was down there one afternoon he pointed to the corner of one garage and told me he had the chassis from the first racing Cobra and was about to do a full restoration on this historically important car. I wandered over there and started looking around in a lost manner, I had a look out of the window incase he meant outside, but still couldn't see anything. He had to point to what looked like a couple of rusted out old drainpipes before I realized that that was what he meant! -Talk about well gone. I believe it's now finished and racing again, and I'm sure he made a good job and a few bob.
The site of the AC workshops is only a few hundred yards from me (the bloke mentioned above bought a lot of the original jigs and bucks from them when they closed), there's a typically modern housing estate there now, with a pretty pathetic little plaque on the wall of one of the houses declaring AC's successes at Le Mans. A shame really, as the village is still pretty well intact, except for this boil of a development in the middle.
What was John Tojeiro's connection with Dax?
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« Reply #43 on: November 03, 2004, 02:59:25 pm » |
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A long, long time ago, in a land far away, I lived and worked in St Leonards-on-Sea. In that sh*t-poke town is a truly wonderful business called Lynx Engineering. These guys make better than original C, D and E Types - excuisite works of art - but replicas, none the less.
I remember driving past one morning and they had 2 - count 'em, 2 ex TWR XJS's, which were being restored for the owner (of both of them!)
One had W Percy's name above the door frame, the other, Fat Tom himself. The guys a Lynx were quite used to rubber-neckers like me gingerly edging into their carpark for a quick shufftee and were very welcoming and informative.
I don't even know if they are still in business, but all I remember is genuine hand-formed and lovingly produced craftsmanship that reminded me of a visit I once made to an outfit in Newport Pagnell who did similar magic with sheet aluminium.......
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« Reply #44 on: November 03, 2004, 06:38:08 pm » |
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The newport pagnall outfit have a new factory somewher near Daventry i believe !
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