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27th December 2020, 00:30
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Ants Alfa
Probably old news, but it looks like Ant is starting to do a little kit based on the MX5. Probably not road legal (cough cough) but for once, it could be built as a kit and run on the road in the US (well in my state with a little hard work with the department of public safety).
https://tipo184.com/
What do you think?
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27th December 2020, 09:53
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£8k
Looks gorgeous
Master mechanic show on Amazon prime shows the build up
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27th December 2020, 09:59
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Hadn't seen this one but just watched the first episode on Amazon and, shaky-cam aside, it's looking very interesting. Thanks for sharing the link
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27th December 2020, 11:31
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Originally Posted by Mister Towed
Hadn't seen this one but just watched the first episode on Amazon and, shaky-cam aside, it's looking very interesting. Thanks for sharing the link
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About to watch the first episode
Looking at it doubt if it could be made road legal over here without a lot of work or more money thrown at it but what a cracking track day car it could be .
Imagine a load of these racing around
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28th December 2020, 22:27
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I've watched the first few episodes and have been enjoying it.
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29th December 2020, 12:34
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Have now binge-watched the whole series and it's a fascinating journey.
He did a fantastic job with the development of the car and can even register it for the road in California using a similar rebody process to the UK.
The only thing I wasn't keen on was his bespoke gear-change linkage which to me appeared to give pretty clumsy and long travel changes.
It's a shame the Alfa gearlever appeared to have been cut off during engine and gearbox removal as I felt it would have been within reach of the driver. After all, they stick out of the dash pretty much horizontally in the donor Spider giving an up-down plane of movement rather than aft-fore.
Bloody lovely car, though.
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6th July 2021, 15:00
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Barrett & Jackson supposedly sold it for $110,000
I would like to point out that a firm in the south of England built a Maserati type in the late 80s, Alfa engine
Can't remember the company name, something like ASC
the engineer 's name was something like Ellington
It was far better
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6th July 2021, 19:27
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stonefree
Barrett & Jackson supposedly sold it for $110,000
I would like to point out that a firm in the south of England built a Maserati type in the late 80s, Alfa engine
Can't remember the company name, something like ASC
the engineer 's name was something like Ellington
It was far better
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was it the one they were going to do a race series of.. i did have some details on my old laptop
as it seems Ant has copied them and the plan is to do the same here
complete kit £25k plus donor or they will build it for £60k !!!
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