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Looks like this guys giving Up! Still the video's good!
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It's the old B10WN k car created by Geary at Eliseparts
(www.eliseparts.com).
It's been around in a few guises and colours since 1997. Sweet car though, but I imagine it may need a tiny bit of work on it?
Jon (the present owner) has bought "a couple of new cars" (ferarri and merc sl55 amg I think?) and needs cash. It's fairly cheap now but I imagine it'll bo up pretty quickly at the last minute.
(www.eliseparts.com).
It's been around in a few guises and colours since 1997. Sweet car though, but I imagine it may need a tiny bit of work on it?
Jon (the present owner) has bought "a couple of new cars" (ferarri and merc sl55 amg I think?) and needs cash. It's fairly cheap now but I imagine it'll bo up pretty quickly at the last minute.
Only that it has cropped up on the BBSs from time to time over the years. The description given is accurate from what I recall - Motobuild bought it quite early, it was in a few of the mags then got painted yellow with hideous red dashboard and an unreliable supercharger conversion. They flogged it, I *think* Jon bought it from them, couldn't sort the supercharger so put the QED engine in and had all the other stuff done by Geary at Eliseparts, who would no doubt be happoy to talk about his work.
If in doubt about the engine talk to QED - guess they'd recommend a freshen up but then with any 200+ bhp engine you have a lot of expensive bits to look after. Or you could cross your fingers, disconnect the coil and crank it a but to get some oil pressure and then try :-)
AdrianR
[spent 2 long wittering as usual]
>> Edited by adrianr on Friday 19th March 15:13
If in doubt about the engine talk to QED - guess they'd recommend a freshen up but then with any 200+ bhp engine you have a lot of expensive bits to look after. Or you could cross your fingers, disconnect the coil and crank it a but to get some oil pressure and then try :-)
AdrianR
[spent 2 long wittering as usual]
>> Edited by adrianr on Friday 19th March 15:13
Well its been proffesionally stored and started every month apparently, but thats a very expensive engine if its buggered...
No reason to think its not legit though, I know the owner as we work in the same place. (p.s. not that I'm offering any guarantee etc, he just seems honest enough).
! i saw this car on elise parts ages ago to, fine beast!..
video
, i gotta say im sure we dont all drive like that..do we?
Ditto, the driving didn't look overly aggressive or irresponsible to me. Speeds were no way as mental as the cars were capable of, they didn't jump any lights or tailgate, they indicated at junctions and didn't get the tail out on any corners.
In short, I expect you see 'worse' driving from the majority of elise drivers on this forum on a daily basis (mentioning no names, except dragstar
).
In short, I expect you see 'worse' driving from the majority of elise drivers on this forum on a daily basis (mentioning no names, except dragstar
).
But for the grace of god and a load of luck.
Aggree that the driving itself was very much less than you see every day - but in 2 high profile cars.
Sorry to say but the same mentality that will key your pride and joy (or egg it) exists in the BiB, as the background commentry shows.
Bitter twisted and needing to get to work of Manchester :-)
Aggree that the driving itself was very much less than you see every day - but in 2 high profile cars.
Sorry to say but the same mentality that will key your pride and joy (or egg it) exists in the BiB, as the background commentry shows.
Bitter twisted and needing to get to work of Manchester :-)
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