A low drag Etype for lowdrag
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Heres one for Lowdrag up for sale on E bay US $199,999.00
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...
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http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/00q4/vicar...
I'd already seen that one but a few comments:-
The car is a pastiche of a real Lindner/Nocker replica compared to those made by RS Panels at around the same price even today. It has the wrong engine, wrong brakes, it's LHD, it has aircon, it has a bloody CD player, the ignition system is wrong, it has the wrong gearbox, the roof shape is too rounded, two electric fans, wrong carburettors, and I shan't bother to get into the nitty gitty. Oh, and according to the chassis plate it is a 1993 XJ6.
Apart from the above, it is absolutely perfect.
The car is a pastiche of a real Lindner/Nocker replica compared to those made by RS Panels at around the same price even today. It has the wrong engine, wrong brakes, it's LHD, it has aircon, it has a bloody CD player, the ignition system is wrong, it has the wrong gearbox, the roof shape is too rounded, two electric fans, wrong carburettors, and I shan't bother to get into the nitty gitty. Oh, and according to the chassis plate it is a 1993 XJ6.
Apart from the above, it is absolutely perfect.
your impressed then? 
Here are two CUT 7 copies together, one far more correct than the other. The one on the left is a Lynx and the other isn't. Note the rounded roof line on the right hand one, and the spots are (you can't see it very well from this angle)chinese-eyed and all wrong. Incidentally, it took years to find out, but the running light on the roof came from a Renault! You can also see a small vent over the driver on the Lynx, a flap that flips up to give cooling to the driver at speed, and that isn't there on the other.
Edited by lowdrag on Friday 1st April 08:47
You know what I'm like when you get me going so here's a bit more on lowdrag replicas. Some years back in 2004 I saw this beautiful RS Panels car (Lindner/Nocker one this time, and done properly) at Eagle E-types and tried to buy it but we couldn't agree on price. Henry had it in on commisssion and it had sat there for four years without selling. I thought about it a bit but it was sold when I got back to Henry about it.
However, imagine my delight when a few years later I saw it doing what it was designed for:-
Silverstone 2008
However, imagine my delight when a few years later I saw it doing what it was designed for:-
Silverstone 2008
Edited by lowdrag on Friday 1st April 12:23
lowdrag said:
I'd already seen that one but a few comments:-
The car is a pastiche of a real Lindner/Nocker replica compared to those made by RS Panels at around the same price even today. It has the wrong engine, wrong brakes, it's LHD, it has aircon, it has a bloody CD player, the ignition system is wrong, it has the wrong gearbox, the roof shape is too rounded, two electric fans, wrong carburettors, and I shan't bother to get into the nitty gitty. Oh, and according to the chassis plate it is a 1993 XJ6.
Apart from the above, it is absolutely perfect.
pastiche - "an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work" So is this "pastiche" imitating the "real replica" (whatever that is) or the real thing???The car is a pastiche of a real Lindner/Nocker replica compared to those made by RS Panels at around the same price even today. It has the wrong engine, wrong brakes, it's LHD, it has aircon, it has a bloody CD player, the ignition system is wrong, it has the wrong gearbox, the roof shape is too rounded, two electric fans, wrong carburettors, and I shan't bother to get into the nitty gitty. Oh, and according to the chassis plate it is a 1993 XJ6.
Apart from the above, it is absolutely perfect.
Is it just me that thinks it a bit perverse to discuss and ridicule a copy of a copy?
Hmm; I seem to remember that at school we were taught the chinese whisper that went like this;-
"Send reinforcements we are going to advance" ended up as "send three and fourpence, we are going to a dance"
If one is going to "replicate" something, then it should be a true copy. If one is going to create something that imitates but is nothing like, then it doesn't replicate. I replicated the 1952 C-type for example. I don't want to get into semantics but there are replicas and there are replicas; A Realm fibreglass C-type is a lookalike, a Lynx D more so but in alloy, but both far from the real thing. My argument about this car is that it really has nothing in common with the real thing except its outline, whereas the RS Panels car (which incidentally when I was interested was considerably cheaper) was an FIA papered copy which races. I think that this car is far from the ethos of a true racer, and perhaps one can argue that point, but at least get the shape right.
"Send reinforcements we are going to advance" ended up as "send three and fourpence, we are going to a dance"
If one is going to "replicate" something, then it should be a true copy. If one is going to create something that imitates but is nothing like, then it doesn't replicate. I replicated the 1952 C-type for example. I don't want to get into semantics but there are replicas and there are replicas; A Realm fibreglass C-type is a lookalike, a Lynx D more so but in alloy, but both far from the real thing. My argument about this car is that it really has nothing in common with the real thing except its outline, whereas the RS Panels car (which incidentally when I was interested was considerably cheaper) was an FIA papered copy which races. I think that this car is far from the ethos of a true racer, and perhaps one can argue that point, but at least get the shape right.
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