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02GF74 - 7/7/11 at 01:41 PM

1959 SAMMIO SPYDER SPORTS - STUNNING !! | eBay UK

.... but not the price and not after the what I see under the bonet; for that amount I would expect sparkly engine that you would not be afraid of eating your dinner off.

Jasper - 7/7/11 at 01:55 PM

Yeah - looks nice on the outside but the interior looks terrible as does the wheezey 1200cc engine.....

Humbug - 7/7/11 at 02:11 PM

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Originally posted by Jasper
Yeah - looks nice on the outside but the interior looks terrible as does the wheezey 1200cc engine.....


I agree... why base it on a knackered old Herald? I think I remember reading, maybe on the guys website, that he got the moulds and adapted them from Ford parts to the Herald base. A version to fit a Locost chassis wouldn't be a bad move!

steve m - 7/7/11 at 02:37 PM

It is different, and i do like, but a 1200 engine? and based on a herald ?

Is this kit atually 50 years old or a new build, as the last time i saw a 1200 herald was on heartbeat!

loggyboy - 7/7/11 at 02:49 PM

Thats what the MK HSR SHOULD have looked like.

http://www.mksportscar.co.uk/index.php?option=com_model&id=3&view=details&Itemid=29

blakep82 - 7/7/11 at 03:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Humbug
quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
Yeah - looks nice on the outside but the interior looks terrible as does the wheezey 1200cc engine.....


I agree... why base it on a knackered old Herald? I think I remember reading, maybe on the guys website, that he got the moulds and adapted them from Ford parts to the Herald base. A version to fit a Locost chassis wouldn't be a bad move!


and base it on a knackered old escort or sierra?
i think you're right though, the 7 type chassis is surely the most common, so seems the best plan i think

jimgiblett - 7/7/11 at 05:17 PM

Personnaly I prefer my friend Jan's Pagano kit. The red car plus the wire wheels on the green one would be my preference

[img]http://www.pagano.se/files/galleriEN.html[/img]

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- Jim

iank - 7/7/11 at 05:55 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Humbug
quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
Yeah - looks nice on the outside but the interior looks terrible as does the wheezey 1200cc engine.....


I agree... why base it on a knackered old Herald? I think I remember reading, maybe on the guys website, that he got the moulds and adapted them from Ford parts to the Herald base. A version to fit a Locost chassis wouldn't be a bad move!


The main reason is no IVA required and free road tax quite legally.
No reason you couldn't engineer a spaceframe chassis for it, but you'd be adding best part of a grand to the build costs.

plentywahalla - 7/7/11 at 06:05 PM

It uses a Herald as a base because Triumph were the only manufacturer in the 60's that was still building cars with a separate chassis. Triumph couldn't afford to develop monocoque construction because they didn't have their own body pressing shop. all their panel work was subbed out to Pressed Steel Fisher.

Separate chassis equals simple kit ... unbolt one body, bolt another one on. This was therefore a very budget shortcut to a kit car, and the price should reflect that.