Hamish Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Beat me to it....... more art work of a radiator kind this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimBancroft Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Project Binky has been going for a long time and I look forward to seeing the car when finished, must admit I am getting impatient though! Even though Matt of Urchfab seems more into drifting and the more youthful end of the modifying old car scene, I do enjoy his series about the Ford Pop/Mazda MX5 amalgamation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I am extremely curious about how thy intend to get it road registered as the mods certainly exclude it from using the original Mini or Toyota ID. Presume SVA but not mentioned anywhere I’ve noticed. The small matter of the final build of the mechanical components, paint and trimming are all out there still. Good couple of years left I reckon..... Then there is their lorry project too...... Blackhurst looks noticeably older and wearier already..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark spit Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 (edited) SVA needs unmodified chassis according to website, not sure they can claim that despite using all the mechanicals from the celica which would give them the required points. Once parked up in Caen ferry queue post CLM next to a GT40 replica that was built on an old Granada suspension, engine box etc and had the plate from that, mind as soon as he had the plate and it was registered it gained a full on V8 and transaxle......... https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-registration/radically-altered-vehicles I can't believe they haven't thought it through, mind is it Ep 1 or 2 where they expect to be done in a few months, rules were probably different back then.........they look so young.... Mark Edited May 14, 2019 by mark spit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulAA Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 11 hours ago, Nick Jones said: Blackhurst looks noticeably older and wearier already..... He is indeed starting to do a passable impersonation of Albert Steptoe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt64ever Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 After all that work, just imagine if they were to bin it on a rally stage.....assuming it ever gets finished ! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 Being built as a road car, not for competition, hence the AC, ICE etc. Not much crush room at the front before vital components get squashed - even worse than a Vitesse! No badger squashing allowed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gt64ever Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Nick The opening credits show a car on a rally stage....have we been miss-sold ? Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 I think so...... there have been repeated spoken references to its being a road car and as I said before, what competition car has AC, ICE, or flash double action bonnet/flip front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnD Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 In previous life, Blackhurst & Brunning were a moderately successful rally team, in I think a Peugeot 205. Richard referred to that car in a recent episode, when they robbed it of some part! That's when the intro sequence comes from. As said, Binky is to be a road car. After seeing that 'cooling pack' they fitted to the front, that probably good. The slightest encounter with a hedge would make for another 24 hours of solid work for Blackhurst to conjure up another set of radiators! On which; in that last, they cut grooves in a pipe end to make barbs, instead of raising a bead, and bent alloy pipe with first a pipe bender and then heat from a flame torch to form alloy tubing. Just showing off their talents? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesA Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 And what talents. As a desk jockey of 40 years, I just love watching what they do and am deeply envious of of their skills. A couple more years on the project is fine for me. Miles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Episode 26...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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