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19th March 2006, 05:53 PM
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| Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Hi Guys
after quite some time I am now starting on my Monocoque, I have just had her powdercoated ready for assembly. I will have two bodies for her, 1: the original alloy panels from AMR GT 2 and 2: a new lightweight fibreglass set of panels from my own moulds.
I am not posting hear for debate on what I am doing, so please if you wish to comment on my build please post else where on the forum as I do not wish to dilute the content of my thread.
regards
Chris Melia. | 
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19th March 2006, 05:56 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Mono 2 | |
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19th March 2006, 05:57 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Mono 3 | |
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19th March 2006, 05:59 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Mono 4 | |
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19th March 2006, 06:07 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
The first day I found her see previous thread "Raiders of The Lost Ark" | |
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19th March 2006, 06:10 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Once we got her down off the top of the dumpster and the covers removed. | |
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19th March 2006, 06:12 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
alloy body 2 | |
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19th March 2006, 06:13 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
alloy body 3 | |
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19th March 2006, 06:14 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Alloy body 4 | |
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19th March 2006, 06:33 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Building a mono takes a lot of effort to collect and assemble all the correct pieces. The car is made up as you will know of many sub assemblies, each assembly comprising of many parts. I have concentrated on the sub assemblies and over the next few weeks I will post photo's and comment.
I had to get the seats remade and through a friend I was lucky enough to find the guy that made the seats back in the 60's for FAV, unfortunately these are the last set of seats he will make as sadly he passed away just after he finished them. | |
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19th March 2006, 06:34 PM
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Seat rear | |
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19th March 2006, 06:43 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Machining the steering rack | |
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19th March 2006, 06:44 PM
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rack 2 | |
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19th March 2006, 06:59 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Upper and lower front wishbones will be nickel plated before installation. | |
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19th March 2006, 07:00 PM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Progress at last Chris. Great to see it happen mate.
Rob | |
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19th March 2006, 07:01 PM
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Wishbones 2 | |
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19th March 2006, 07:03 PM
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Wishbones 3 | |
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20th March 2006, 04:30 AM
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Keep those pics coming chris...... Have you done any work on cleaning up the ali body? looks great....
Doc Watson | |
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20th March 2006, 04:59 AM
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| | FredGT40 10 tenths 
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Mighty Chris is back in town.
Go on and send us pics...
Its really impressive
Fred | |
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20th March 2006, 07:43 AM
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| | Neil_t Rookie 
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| Re: Chris Melia\'s Mono \"Raiders of the lost Arc\"
Chris, everyone is so taken by the photos that they missed the bit about no commenting in this tread.... oh sh*t, now I have too. | |
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