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04-07-06, 08:59 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter 
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Surrey, UK GT40: GTD
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| new toy in town!
Quite excited to announce that I have just bought this! | 
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04-07-06, 09:05 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Surrey, UK GT40: GTD
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| Re: new toy in town!
It is a Prosport Spider, one of only two ever made. It was made in 2001/2002 on a Lee Noble designed chassis. It is not the same as the original Prosport chassis but was deisgned from scratch bar suspension geometry points. Noble also penned the bodywork.
All running gear, engine, box etc are from the original design Prosport and the donor vehicle was William Hewland's 1997 championship winning car. It has all the Hewland upgrades bar the sequential gearbox still on the car.
It runs the Ford V6 through a Hewland box. Power is estimated at around 300bhp. More is possible but that to me reduces reliability so I won't be chasing it.
Should be fun. Below are some more pictures for those interested. | |
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04-07-06, 09:08 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
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| Re: new toy in town!
another | |
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04-07-06, 09:11 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
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and another | |
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04-07-06, 09:13 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
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| Re: new toy in town!
yet another | |
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04-07-06, 09:14 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
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| Re: new toy in town!
couple more | |
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04-07-06, 09:15 AM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
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| Re: new toy in town!
last one | |
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04-07-06, 09:33 AM
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| | Lifetime Premier Supporter 
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Congratulations and enjoy. | |
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04-07-06, 12:07 PM
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| | aladinsane Lifetime Premier Supporter
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: So Cal, USA GT40: Tornado
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Should be fun.....
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Can you make any more of an 'understatement' [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/lol.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif[/img] | |
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04-07-06, 12:17 PM
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| | Ron Earp Site Administrator
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Most excellent - now, can I drive this on a track day when I'm over???? Maybe this post should go in the race thread section? | |
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04-07-06, 01:31 PM
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| | Brian McCarthy Bronze Supporter
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TWO SEATS !!!!!. We are all set. Is Wendy going to let you take it out to play? | |
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04-07-06, 01:39 PM
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| | Brian Magee Bronze Supporter
Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Newbury England GT40: GTD
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Rep Power: 12 | Re: new toy in town!
Malcolm
Looks a serious piece of kit. Hillclimb or circuit?
Brian.
PS. I hope you have left a big enough gateway in the new front wall!!!!! | |
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04-07-06, 02:37 PM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Surrey, UK GT40: GTD
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| Re: new toy in town!
I may revise that Should be Fun statement after I have driven the car at a circuit, hopefully Thursday. At the moment the one statement I am worried about making is "S**t that is scary fast!"
Ron, let me see how I get on. I still have the 40 that is now being stripped and developed a bit more but with road/track days only in mind, no more competition as you know. Don't move this to race section yet as I don't intend on racing it in the near future. I want to see how I get on and work out running costs etc. It is however fully eligible for the British GT championship but I am not the driver for that yet. Paul - Shut it! :-)
Wendy is letting me out to play, short drive on Thursday I hope plus a full day at Silverstone on May 3rd. At least Brian you stand a better chance of fitting in this car without me needing to remove seats for you!
Circuit use only for this one but that does not exclude sprints at selected venues if the mood takes me. I wonder how it would do at Brighton?
One factual correction to the words above. It was the 1996 championship winning car from William Hewland not 1997, my mistake. Check out http://www.hewland.com/svga/Willcv.htm
Brian, how come you know I have a new front wall? And you didn't pop in to say hi? The gateway is plenty big enough as I have had 4 axle lorries in for deliveries but care is needed as some idiot did manage to drive into the gatepost when doing a turn! I know it was a lorry as I have all his rear left indicator and lights in my garage! I hope it did a lot more damage than that, the swine! | |
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04-07-06, 04:42 PM
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| | p thompson Administrator
Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Milland, West S GT40: None
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| Re: new toy in town!
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It is however fully eligible for the British GT championship but I am not the driver for that yet. Paul - Shut it! :-)
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Malc - [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] I'll keep quiet for the moment! [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Mind you, the spec says it all :-
1996: Pro-Sport 3000 with Hewland Engineering Motorsport.
Third season in Pro-Sport 3000, to defend title.
My results from 10 races contested: (11 race season)
Winner of Championship;
9 wins, 1 DNF, 9 poles, 7 fastest laps and 2 new lap records.
Hmmmm - quite some record to live up to... [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
Me thinks you are going to have some serious fun!! - If I can make May 3rd I'll come to observe / spanner. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif[/img]
ENJOY!! | |
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04-11-06, 02:56 PM
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| | Malcolm Gold Supporter
Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Surrey, UK GT40: GTD
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Got it home safely, but what a monster learning curve lies ahead of me now! | |
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04-11-06, 05:34 PM
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| | Pete Lifetime Premier Supporter 
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A very serious piece of gear. Congratulations you will love it. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beerchug.gif[/img] | |
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