Effin' weather
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mmm, interesting thought that, could make it feel a bit more like a Bentley with a smooth wood veneer!! Hopefully it is just a case of replacing the complete bodyshell and panels, which took a loooong time to put on, so I'm hoping the insurance will pay for a factory repair.
mmm, interesting thought that, could make it feel a bit more like a Bentley with a smooth wood veneer!! Hopefully it is just a case of replacing the complete bodyshell and panels, which took a loooong time to put on, so I'm hoping the insurance will pay for a factory repair.
.. At least my OMS hit the trees rather than the other way 'round Real sorry to see that. I feel for you. Not as if it's a 'production' car and you can just go out and buy a new one....all that work to be re-done 
Assuming the insurance pays out presumably it's the full cost to fix, thus including estimates for labour at 'bodyshop' rates? Enough just to send it down to Ultima for a double-quick factory rebuild/turnaround?
or enough for a DIY fix and bit left over for some more BHP.
Can't really gauge the extent of the damage from the pix, but I don't suppose you can just cut out the damaged areas and bond in new ares from a donor shell (as per typical TVR repairs where the whole shell is hardly ever replaced). I'm sure you must be a fibreglass expert having built the car, but if not (if Ultimas are just 'assembled' from pre-moulded parts) then I'm OK at it if you need a hand (having made/modfied large sections of the Tuscan body), and I certainly know folks who are real experts in the art if you're looking at the repair/bond-in route DIY.
Best of luck. On the bright side, at least it wasn't the typical spring equinox gales otherwise you'd screwed for spring/summer.
Look forward to seeing it/hearing it/passing it
on track in 2007.
Assuming the insurance pays out presumably it's the full cost to fix, thus including estimates for labour at 'bodyshop' rates? Enough just to send it down to Ultima for a double-quick factory rebuild/turnaround?
or enough for a DIY fix and bit left over for some more BHP. Can't really gauge the extent of the damage from the pix, but I don't suppose you can just cut out the damaged areas and bond in new ares from a donor shell (as per typical TVR repairs where the whole shell is hardly ever replaced). I'm sure you must be a fibreglass expert having built the car, but if not (if Ultimas are just 'assembled' from pre-moulded parts) then I'm OK at it if you need a hand (having made/modfied large sections of the Tuscan body), and I certainly know folks who are real experts in the art if you're looking at the repair/bond-in route DIY.
Best of luck. On the bright side, at least it wasn't the typical spring equinox gales otherwise you'd screwed for spring/summer.
Look forward to seeing it/hearing it/passing it
on track in 2007.Thanks for all the sympathy votes, and as many have said, it could have been a lot worse or at a much more awkward time, I didn't intend to use it thro' the winter, so it's not too inconvenient just now. I 've been told by my very helpful NFU insurance man that the house cover doesn't include such things as cars in a garage, so beware if anyone is relying on that for cover. However, the kitcar insurance thro' Adrian Flux is sounding good at present. I don't think I'll have time to do the repairs, nor is cutting and patching a reliable option, so it should be a trip to the ultima factory in the next couple of weeks and hopefully a whole new body shell. Putting the body on really was the worst part of the build and I wouldn't want to have to take it all to pieces just to have to put it all back, have you any idea how many rivets there are in an ultima? When the kit arrived, the bags of rivets almost shaded the chassis for weight! Still, got to look on the bright side, no injuries and all insured. Hoope to post some pics of a shiny rebuild soon. Thanks for the kind thoughts everyone.
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