I share my dads one with him and have started competing in it too.



What you got and share some pictures.

I don't have one at the moment, but I've had three in the past...

JC Midge, from John Cowperthwaite in Sheffield. Original design was based on a Triumph Dolomite, but I ended up with the first customer Ford-based car. One or two little problems: the steering column had to go through the engine block as designed, and the reversed Cortina front subframe meant it had permanent bump oversteer. I basically threw away everything except the chassis and the body plans (aluminium over wood) and started from scratch.
(Not my car, couldn't find a picture - pre electric camera days).


Then an Onyx Firefly. Mine used to pop up (from after I sold it) on a google image search, but you'll have to make do with this pic).

Was supposed to be a 750 or 1000 panda engine, but that got boring so I stuffed a 1.3 Brazil engine in for amusement and doubled the horsepower. That was a car that handled incredibly well, but it wasn't terribly waterproof. Some chap tipped a bag of cement powder in it one night, which tickled the copper who came to investigate it...

Most recent was the quantum 20VT, sadly gone to the great breakers in the sky due to delamination of the supporting fibreglass around the rear suspension causing a random sudden leap to the ditch when booting it.
Before it got the 20VT engine:

and after the feeble Ford XR2 was thrown out...

It was a squeeze getting that engine in there; this still had lots of bits to add.

My brother and I have an MK Indy Hyabusa for 3 years now (well, it's his, but lives in my garage)

Here's a little vid from the first time I drove it on track:

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Donington?preview=suba+fastest+lap+cropped.wmv

Simon,

You and your brother busy this Saturday?

I shall be competing in FBS in the U1 class and we need some more competitors.

It's at Santa Pod.

Mate of mine had a Pilgrim Sumo - a Cobra replica. Looked great although for some reason his had a Mustang V6 in it and I always felt short-changed whenever I heard a V8/V12 one! Another lad I worked with had a mad VW-based Nova wedge thing which had the whole roof/door/screen hinged forward to allow access. Looked like a '70's Top Trump prototype but still sounded like a Beetle. It was Orange with a crushed purple interior
I've always fancied a Hawk Stratos done in Alitalia colours!

Got Auto Italia in the afternoon, and some work on the RX7 in the morning on Sat, otherwise would love to. Dont think Bro is in the country at the moment.

PM me when you are next up to stuff so I can get it in the diary early....wife, kids, etc. etc...

Had a crossflow powered Westy for a while.

Great fun.

Incidentally - on my drive home from work last night noted with this thread in mind - Kit car show is on this weekend at Stoneleigh - just down the road from me

Owww Stoneleegh park is one of our properties at work.

Defiantly worth visit guys.

Sob... traditionally, we've done Brooklands on the Saturday and Stoneleigh on the Sunday (for the Quantum owners' AGM) but this year, absent Quanturbo, no Stoneleigh.

We're going to take a beehive to bits instead.

Best of luck with that one barnacle!

It's not the beehive that bothers me - it's the seventy thousand bees that ought to be in there...

Fortunately, we're observing this year, with intent to get our own hive next year.

Off to Stoneleigh tomorrow with OH in his Ginetta G33. (Your bees would love it, its very yellow!) Mini convoy up there with another Ginetta plus his brother in his Westfield. No roof allowed so I'll be wrapping up warm!

Last year there was a strange looking thing in one of the halls that used the Coupe front lights. That was the only good looking part on it!

I would add a pic of the G33 but can't work out how to.

He won a highly commended prize for Pride of Ownership (turns up for the opening of an envelope!) despite some lovely examples of other models.

The guy who made the trophies (from an oil pump painted in Ginetta colours & with the logo on) had a stand at the show.