Classic Motorsports

Updates

• Pulled the Motor June 25

  Final stages of stripping out the car prior to building it back up.. Ancilliaries and …

• ReInforcing Floors June 26

  June 25, spent a few hours cutting and welding in 3/32 plate to re-inforce the …

• Stripping and Cleaning June 27

  June 27, another 7 hours in the driveway today with the water blaster, solvents, cleaners …

• Minor Frame work & cleaning June 28

  I managed a few more hours in the man cave tonight cleaning up my welds …

• Roll Cage Patterning July 01

  I spent a few hours in the garage tonight cutting and fitting cardboard as a …

• July 1st Weekend... July 04

  Working out the sheet metal work on the floors and in the trunk. Closed up …

• Roll Cage Mount Plates July 07

  Started into the roll cage, cut and tacked in the 3/16” plate mount points for …

• Reenforcing Inner Rockers July 11

  Re Plated the inner rockers and did a little welding and plating under the floors …

• Wrapped up the underbody/sheet metal tonight July 13

  I was just about to finish tacking the last bit under the drivers side floor …

• Cleaned and sealed floor & under body tonight July 14

  After a couple more hours of grinder, wire wheel, sander and a solvent/cleaner wash down …

• Starting into the roll cage last night... July 16

  I’m going overspec 1 3/4” .095 DOM tubing (I could use 1.5” but for the …

• Interior Painted Ready for Cage July 16

  Weekend plans were going down in flames Friday when I learned the place I hoped …

• New Rimms Sept. 08

  Picked up two nice sets of Rimms from a chap in Ottawa this week. Panasports …

Comments

cupcake:

Nice collection of Triumphs! What modifications do you have planned?
Jun 14, 2010 10:29 p.m.

Vince:

Hi, thanks for noticing/asking Daisy is a stock show car/driver with minor mods such as a custom interior that is still in the spirit of the day you could say, freshened the engine and added a few minor performance parts like K&N's, Pertronix Distributor and Monza exhuast. Vintage Racer I'll initially restore to a pretty stock format since I will be new on the track next year and VARAC rules don't have a lot of flexibility. The engine compression will be heightened, flow the intake and exhaust, make sure the mechanical and safety measures are top notch… Long term, go to SVRA rules and change out the weak rotoflex, strengthen the transmission and upgrade the engine to stage 3 perhaps. We'll see how next year goes… The spitfire will be on hold for at least 2 years and I may even sell it since I could use the garage space and may not want to invest the time later, we'll see. Cheers, Vince
Jun 15, 2010 5:12 a.m.

Vince:

I spent a few hours in the man cave again last night fixing some of the mess the PO has made of the inner rockers and front floor pans. I fabbed up some inner rockers and a small patch for the front passenger floor and welded them in. The extra layer on the inner rocker will add a little strength in case of a side impact which is good…
Jul 9, 2010 2:18 p.m.

Vince:

Got my official car # today ^b144^b In honor of Group 44 Racing…
Jul 22, 2010 6:21 p.m.

TR4racer:

Hi Vince. Looking good man, I'm planning on building a GT6 this winter and would be interested in seeing more pics of the rollcage when it's done, and if possible the name of the shop that did it. Thanks Mike
Aug 19, 2010 9:14 p.m.