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Old 04-06-06, 11:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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1149 Mono Replica

Believe it or not, through all this silence work has continued on 1149 during the winter. Kudos to Brady Pack who has been laboring along in an unheated garage in Ohio all this time.
As soon as the shift linkage is revised and made final, 1149 goes to the paint shop to shoot the monocoque within the next few weeks. Then everything gets reattached and after trials the car comes to MD for final exterior paint and trim. I forgot to mention that the car was actually road-tested in September of last year, and that we were able to find Wilwood brakes to match instead of APs, which have become prohibitively expensive. (over 2KUSD/wheel!)
So progress marches on, albeit slowly, and we are looking at vintage rallies etc for this fall. This is maybe one of the more protracted builds on this forum, but the quality of work done by Safir GT40 is excellent and slowly but surely things are coming to a finish. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif[/img]
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Old 04-06-06, 11:56 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: update on 1149

It"s about time you updated! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beat.gif[/img]

I was curious about your progress.
What color are you planning to paint it?
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Old 04-07-06, 11:06 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: update on 1149

A dark red metallic which we thought was an Aston Martin color from the sixties- but it turned out to be a Mazda color from 1991 [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif[/img] Despite that, I've seen it on a Ferrari, a Jaguar, and a DB4GT, and it looks great. The sill stripes will be white. We are not using the top stripe. The chassis color is a pewter gray metallic that I found in a duPont catalog, and the interior will be dark gray.
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Old 05-12-06, 08:29 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Trying to attach a photo here of 1149 on its maiden voyage last September. The numbers on the side are for ID purposes for video and not what the final trim will look like. Gelcoat primer is also not the final color, lol.
I think the file size is too big- I'll reduce it and post it later on today if I can.
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Old 05-12-06, 09:25 AM   #5 (permalink)
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again on photo

...here it is.....
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

So, I've been wondering whatever happened to this car?
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

Jimbo, pardon my ignorance if you get a Safir body, does that mean you get a GT40 series chassis number (1149)? Or, does the '1149' mean something else? Who owns the dies to stamp the body parts for the GT40 monocoque?
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

The number 1149 was assigned by the Safir guys who are also the folks who have the original body molds (from which my car's body was made) and the rights to the GT40 shape etc etc. Lots of people claim these rights; Safir are the only folks that stepped up and paid good money for it and all the parts and tooling. No one else did that.

The tooling is not composed of dies. It is a set of molds that the original bodies were made in. The molds required resurfacing and a lot of reconditioning, but they are the molds that FAV used in the 60s to build the cars back then. They were also used by JW Automotive and were used to build the Mark V cars as well.

Nothing like a timely answer, is there...
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

Jimbo,

Good to hear from you.The car sounds like it's making some real progress.Keep us informed!
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

I am interested in seeing more of the mono. Was it a left over Safir or a modern day copy? Can you put up more pics?
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Re: 1149 Mono Replica

Scroll down here Jay.

progress on 1149

The car can't be far away from driveable Jim.
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