Re: Spa Summer Classic 2019 - 22 Elans taking part !
Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2019 11:05 am
Frogelan wrote:G'day Rohan
I had a long chat with Rob Wainwright who rebuilt this S1 R 22 for owner David Garrett. The body is apparently the original and the modifications seem to have happened later in 1967 (see Zurich Racing Car Show in November 1967 photo below):
https://photobucket.com/gallery/user/dg ... NTY=/?ref=
Other cars in the paddock had a similar modification.
Personally I would like to applaud David Garrett for going to the trouble of getting this car so carefully restored. There are other photos of the car if you did around on this link: https://forums.autosport.com/topic/2043 ... el-arches/
Its not the external body modifications I am commenting on as these happened in a very random pattern back in the day in the 60's. The FIA replica regulations allow you to essentially copy any car of the period if you can convince the officials that the body external style existed based on historical race photos.
My comment was around modification of the internal firewall to enable the engine to be pushed back around 50 mm and the fitting of the modern TTR headers in a cut into the firewall which did not exist back in the 60's as far as i am aware. None of the photos from the 60's in the links provided appear to show these engine bay mods ?
cheers
Rohan