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    Hi everyone, I know its been a long time but I have been busy, started a machine shop, worked my tail off watched the machine shop fail, and had to sell everything, got a job, started a new project and now have been driving it all over the place, Its a Chevron (Lotus7rep) little kit car, it weights a little under 700 kgs and is running a 3.8 V6 out of a Holden (GM Aus) so it is a lot of fun to drive, I know its looking ratty but I have using it as a D-Driver and I sort of like the ratty look, I have just put the box on the back as my son and I are going to be going camping over Xmas,

  • #2
    sorry about the shop.
    neat car, that'd be a kick.
    Doing it all wrong since 1966

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    • #3
      Originally posted by SuperBuickGuy View Post
      sorry about the shop.
      neat car, that'd be a kick.
      thanks for that, it was a real kick in the guts, but onwards and upwards. I now have a normal job so I can speed time with the family

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      • #4
        For sure .....bummer as bout the shop . But the car is so cool ! How about more pics . Under the hood and around it ?
        Previously HoosierL98GTA

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        • #5
          Great positive attitude and sweet little car.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by bryankiwi View Post

            thanks for that, it was a real kick in the guts, but onwards and upwards. I now have a normal job so I can speed time with the family
            Great that you have kept a positive outlook on the roadblocks that have fallen in your path! Enjoy your family...You can't pay to get memories like that!
            Patrick & Tammy
            - Long Haulin' 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014...Addicting isn't it...??

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dan Barlow View Post
              For sure .....bummer as bout the shop . But the car is so cool ! How about more pics . Under the hood and around it ?
              I'll post up some more photos tonight but for now here is a short video. My son and I got to spend a day on the race track


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              • #8
                Originally posted by bryankiwi View Post
                Originally posted by Dan Barlow View Post
                For sure .....bummer as bout the shop . But the car is so cool ! How about more pics . Under the hood and around it ?
                I'll post up some more photos tonight but for now here is a short video. My son and I got to spend a day on the race track
                https://youtu.be/IkpiSGhutJc
                Thanks buddy! have been interested in a Brunton 7 for quite a while!
                Last edited by silver_bullet; December 16, 2018, 11:05 AM.
                Patrick & Tammy
                - Long Haulin' 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014...Addicting isn't it...??

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                • #9
                  Too bad about the shop, I have seen your work, you do good work!
                  Car looks fun!

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                  • #10
                    Let me add my condolences for the shop. It's tough to put your hopes and dreams into something and have it leave you flat.

                    The track day looks like a blast! Makin' memories that'll last a lifetime.

                    Dan

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                    • #11
                      When I first joined Ford out of college, I worked in the Special Vehicle Engineering group on a "homologation special" rally car project, which involved working closely with the Ford Motorsport rally team.

                      We wanted to try out some new suspension pieces, so I was sent to visit one of the rally team suppliers to deliver some rear axle crossmembers to be modified, by a company called "Speedbend" - a traditional "one man, his boy and a dog" shop underneath railway arches in north London. The owner was "Bernie", who constantly had a cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth, and usually made the custom fabricated exhaust systems for the Ford Works rally cars from sheet and tube stainless - a work of art to maximise cross section while keeping as close to the floor, suspension and chassis rails to minimise the chances of it being ripped off on a rally stage.

                      At the time, my manager was building a Lotus 7 clone called a Robin Hood, and when I mentioned this to him he asked me when I went back to pick up the parts to ask Bernie if he had ever done an exhaust system for something like a Lotus 7.

                      I put the question to Bernie, who paused and said "Yeah, about three thousand. I did all the originals for Chapman......." !
                      Last edited by Red_Kitty; December 16, 2018, 04:19 PM.

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                      • #12
                        Andy - what a great story! Did he do the system for your manager?

                        Dan

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by DanStokes View Post
                          Andy - what a great story! Did he do the system for your manager?
                          No he was always looking to do things cheap (or free if he could get them) - that's why he was was building a knock-off instead of a Caterham 7 or Westfield, which were the popular options then (we traded demo cars with Caterham for a week one time, and had a 130hp version that was great fun to drive).

                          He wasn't looking to spend what Bernie would have charged, and ended up hacking something together.
                          Last edited by Red_Kitty; December 16, 2018, 06:17 PM.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Red_Kitty View Post
                            When I first joined Ford out of college, I worked in the Special Vehicle Engineering group on a "homologation special" rally car project, which involved working closely with the Ford Motorsport rally team.
                            What a great story, must have been fun working back in the day with Ford, My old boss ( where I did my apprenticeship) use to race a MK1 Escort with a BDA then swapped it out for a BDG motor after the little Escort they moved on to a Kiwi version of a Capri RS3100 factory race car powered by a GAA V6. Only 100 kits were built, to homologate them for touring car competition. Based on the Essex block, they were stretched out to 3,412cc, with DOHC, and four valves per cylinder (24 valves) with Lucas fuel-injection. The GAA was backed by a 5-speed ZF gearbox, to help keep the singing V6 up in the rev range, where it was most effective. Horsepower ranged from just over 400, to nearly 450, as it was developed throughout 1974. The 16” diameter wheels measured 12” wide in front, and a whopping 15” in the rear, and were wrapped in enormous box-flares, the rears of which housed the radiators. In a package weighing just over 1,000kg, the competition RS3100 was a formidable machine.

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                            • #15
                              Some more photos of the Chevron

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