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westfield or Locost chassis?
alfas - 27/5/16 at 02:25 PM

is this a westfield pre-lit chassis (alloy bodied pre-lit)?








[Edited on 27/5/16 by alfas]


Smokey mow - 27/5/16 at 05:29 PM

Its not an alloy bodied pre-lit. The arrangement of the engine bay tubes are completly wrong and bare no resemblance.


alfas - 27/5/16 at 06:30 PM

thats what i thought too. locost?

here interior:



[Edited on 27/5/16 by alfas]


alfas - 27/5/16 at 07:25 PM

front wishbones look like westfield (i have further pics), interior width is 395mm measured from propshaft tunnel to entry...so from that point of view it would match with a westfield.

dash looks locost-ish, bonnet looks too wide for a westfield

[Edited on 27/5/16 by alfas]


Smokey mow - 27/5/16 at 09:12 PM

Wishbones look similar to current westfields but on prelits they were U shaped not V shaped

Engine bay, tunnel, headlamp mounts and nosecone tabs are completely wrong though

This is what an alloy prelit looks like
http://forum.wscc.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic/117001-pre-lit-ally-bodied-build-thread/


alfas - 27/5/16 at 10:11 PM

"Wishbones look similar to current westfields but on prelits they were U shaped not V shaped"

yes i know...but it neither looks like a locost...

very strange car


alfas - 28/5/16 at 10:29 AM

finally we found a chassis number on a little plate welded on the typical westfield area (crossmember in front of engine).

the plate has the correct size, the same welding as the rest of the chassis, its powedercoated and the numbers are the correct size as westfield used them

it has a 1987 SE chassisnumber.