Project: Redbone
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 10:43 pm
Hello. My name is Simon and I'm an idiot. I do things the hard way. I don't learn my lesson. Rinse and repeat. However, I do like to document my builds though as I lean on others who are smarter than me to try and steer me in the right direction, and limit my mistakes. So join the ride. I also have a small YouTube Channel which currently showcases my Alfa Romeo Giulia Super build. Feel free to check it out if you enjoy that format:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChjAqZ ... lhEjQlR4yA
I (usually) enjoy the process of building, and typically while I didn't grow up with a poster of a Lotus Elan on my wall, as I've "matured" I realize characteristics of cars that I enjoy. My main recipe lately has been that I enjoy 200bhp in a 2000# (~900kg) car more than I enjoy 300bhp in a 3000# car. So with that in mind, a Lotus Elan is high up on the list of cars I want. I test drove one back in '20 when I still had my Datsun Roadster and while I wasn't impressed with the fragile feeling I got from the Elan when compared with the unrefined toughness of the Datsun I knew I'd need to have one some day. The seed was planted.
Not long ago I nearly bought an Elan racecar, and then a project pre-airflow 67 FHC. Researching both got me here and posting. Neither of those two came to fruition but it did motivate me to place a WTB on a Spyder chassis. Not long ago, a private message came through with the pic below
For once, location, timing and funding were actually all in alignment. So after enjoying the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion my brother and I headed up to San Jose (my hometown) and picked up this NOS Chassis. It was purchased in 1990, but never installed.
Overall its in great condition but there are a few areas that need my attention where the paint has flaked off. I convinced my folks to let me drop it off at their place, though halfway back from Central California with a semi filled truck bed, I believe we may have been able to also drag it home along with the other stuff we took from their house.
Regardless, its there now and I spent a little bit of time cleaning it up before I left. Some before and after pics.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChjAqZ ... lhEjQlR4yA
I (usually) enjoy the process of building, and typically while I didn't grow up with a poster of a Lotus Elan on my wall, as I've "matured" I realize characteristics of cars that I enjoy. My main recipe lately has been that I enjoy 200bhp in a 2000# (~900kg) car more than I enjoy 300bhp in a 3000# car. So with that in mind, a Lotus Elan is high up on the list of cars I want. I test drove one back in '20 when I still had my Datsun Roadster and while I wasn't impressed with the fragile feeling I got from the Elan when compared with the unrefined toughness of the Datsun I knew I'd need to have one some day. The seed was planted.
Not long ago I nearly bought an Elan racecar, and then a project pre-airflow 67 FHC. Researching both got me here and posting. Neither of those two came to fruition but it did motivate me to place a WTB on a Spyder chassis. Not long ago, a private message came through with the pic below
For once, location, timing and funding were actually all in alignment. So after enjoying the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion my brother and I headed up to San Jose (my hometown) and picked up this NOS Chassis. It was purchased in 1990, but never installed.
Overall its in great condition but there are a few areas that need my attention where the paint has flaked off. I convinced my folks to let me drop it off at their place, though halfway back from Central California with a semi filled truck bed, I believe we may have been able to also drag it home along with the other stuff we took from their house.
Regardless, its there now and I spent a little bit of time cleaning it up before I left. Some before and after pics.