Race car in paint

Race car in paint

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anonymous-user

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61 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Coming on nicely

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Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 21st June 20:18


White stripe, pine striped, roundels and then lacquer.

Very happy. smile

Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 21st June 20:23

GAjon

3,804 posts

220 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Who's doing it John?

Lightweight paint?

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

61 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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Chap local to me, does a lot of very expensive single seater stuff and very very reasonable. 😎

Slow M

2,789 posts

213 months

Tuesday 21st June 2016
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NICE!

Best regards,
Bernard.

pete.reeve

516 posts

290 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Rings a bell






Looking Good.

lfsv8

59 posts

139 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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TVRMs: looking most impressive and additionally gratifying for you that your project is now at its 'coming together' stage.
An on-going credit to great attention to detail as well as your modifications giving a bespoke-engineering dimension that matches the ethos of the earliest TVRs. Newness & tradition combined - good luck for untroubled completion!

anonymous-user

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61 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Thanks for those kind words.

This is the race car though Mr Shacklton, not the V8, both-converging smile

lfsv8

59 posts

139 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Sorry John, didn't realise your were doing two at once ... Doing just one TVR is more than enough to stretch my budget.
Then you're going to race one, excellent. Looking forward to seeing results [them] when completed and ready for road or action.

stainless_steve

6,034 posts

265 months

Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Looking good John,be good to see it back on the track.

anonymous-user

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61 months

Friday 1st July 2016
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Stripe going on.







Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 1st July 13:04

anonymous-user

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61 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Bonnet painted and ready for stripe



DavidY

4,474 posts

291 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Does it get the Martin's Mild Mooover as well????

anonymous-user

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61 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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It will indeed David smile

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

61 months

Tuesday 9th August 2016
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Body on to allow doors to be fitted and bonnet to be aligned to mask for stripe.





Not far away now smile

anonymous-user

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61 months

Wednesday 17th August 2016
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Bonnet completed, doors to go smile





Very happy with the slight colour change from the original


Slow M

2,789 posts

213 months

Thursday 18th August 2016
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Looking fantastic!

Best regards,
Bernard.

anonymous-user

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61 months

Friday 19th August 2016
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plasticpig72

1,647 posts

156 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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That extracter vent does look nice and i see it has a small lip along the bottom. That will stop raining pouring in when parked.
How did you do the vent like that, did you laminate in a ready made vent then blended in the rest. At some time i will need to get my 1976 3000M resprayed but before maybe i will add an extracter vent.
Very nice paint job, did you do it
Alan

anonymous-user

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61 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Hi Alan,
It was painted by a local chap who does unbelievable work. I wish had the talent and the patience.

I had a previous bonnet modified by cutting and filling 5 or 6 years ago, but then wanted a lightweight version. Adrian was involved in the production of the bonnet (provision of the mould - that we had refurbished). He had the foresight to arrange a "bulge mould" from the bonnet I had.

The good news is I believe he still has it so replication should be reasonably straightforward. smile





Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 20th August 08:56

ephemera

215 posts

166 months

Saturday 20th August 2016
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Hi guys, Looks really beautiful, compliments!

I am by no means an aerodynamics expert, but when considering bonnet vents for my Fury I came across this link:

http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/viewthread.p...

I would be interested to learn if the high pressure area at the bottom of the windscreen would let air in or out of the vent.

My simple assumption was that in heavy traffic and low speed a bonnet vent at that location would help to let the hot air out, and at high speeds there will/should be another path for the hot air to go out.

I would love to hear your opinions and real world experiences.