G40 Version 2

sleag40 · April 05, 2013, 04:42:50 PM

Back on the road

Alex · April 05, 2013, 05:40:00 PM

That looks immaculate! Not many on an L plate either.

sleag40 · April 05, 2013, 06:30:10 PM

Thanks! Restored it last summer after my first one was written off by some a-hole last May. Just getting my head round uploading pictures ( technology spaz ) so will get a build thread up to use all the pictures I took during a very busy 3 months last year.

sleag40 · April 05, 2013, 07:00:37 PM

A couple more from the other day while I'm on a roll.

sleag40 · April 08, 2013, 05:32:36 PM

After 6 years of ownership and many thousands of queenheads this is what became a write off on May 19th last year.

sleag40 · April 08, 2013, 05:46:06 PM

Bent Polo shots - check out the gap between door and roof. I think that without the PPP stage 3 frame this would have been much worse!

samg40 · April 08, 2013, 09:38:46 PM

Old one looked nice (new one does too), what happened. Gutting to have had it that long and it end up like that.

Yoof · April 08, 2013, 09:57:00 PM

Shame as the black one was mint- grey one looks sweet though dude, you out on track anytime this year?

sleag40 · April 10, 2013, 07:21:30 AM

Some dopey woman pulled out from a side road on my left without looking. She then stopped, blocking my side of the road. There was no way I could stop in time so I tried to steer round whilst hard on the brakes. Sure enough she then moved off again - leaving me totally screwed! I was now locked up and slammed into her offside rear wheel giving it a good 30 degrees of camber. I was just out for a cheeky drive on a nice day. Arse.
Got a couple of other projects on the go so probably wont make any track days this year. I hope to get to the Pod a couple of times this year though.

Yoof · April 10, 2013, 03:01:56 PM

Let me know when and I'll hopefully be there, new house is 45min away

The subframe and suspension survive okay?

metz · April 10, 2013, 03:06:05 PM

Spare room big enough for my manly physique?

sleag40 · April 10, 2013, 03:58:02 PM

Suspension fine. Changed top mounts before fitting to grey car though. I cleaned the paint off the frame to check the welds - all was in order - and it fitted the grey car like a finger up a bum! When I unbolted it from the black car the chassis leg sprang up a couple of inches off the frame and the screen broke! The car definately bent around the frame, even the nearside wing was overlapping the door.

sleag40 · April 10, 2013, 04:41:50 PM

While off work with a ruined back and broken toes I started to look for another shell to put all my goodies in. Trawled Club G40 for a couple of hours and found this just 20 miles away in Chester. Was on my drive less than a week after the crash. Car was complete other than having nothing but some dirt under the bonnet. Looked pretty good other than a manky battery tray and o/s sill. Thanks for getting the ball rolling Rich.

Yoof · April 10, 2013, 07:33:48 PM

Quote from: sleag40 on April 10, 2013, 03:58:02 PM
Suspension fine. Changed top mounts before fitting to grey car though. I cleaned the paint off the frame to check the welds - all was in order - and it fitted the grey car like a finger up a bum! When I unbolted it from the black car the chassis leg sprang up a couple of inches off the frame and the screen broke! The car definately bent around the frame, even the nearside wing was overlapping the door.

That's good to know if/when I bend the front end of mine!

sleag40 · April 11, 2013, 04:25:37 PM

Started stripping it down about 6 weeks later when I was in a less crippled state. It looked pretty good until delving a bit deeper! I already knew about the battery tray and sill but the to do list was about to get bigger. Both wings were scrapped as soon as the plastic trim was removed - no arches left. There was also a hole in the inner wing near the ARB mounting point. The offside rear arch was buggered too. I stripped all the rubber sealer off and got stuck in.