Hi all
let me first introduce myself:
My name is Axel, I am 51 and I come from Hamburg/North Germany.
I have already built two cars, a Countach with Renault engine/gearbox and an Alpine A110 speedster, based on a racing body with a shortened beetle chassis and a straight four VW engine.
Both cars did look good, and they were great fun to drive, nevertheless I've sold both cars in spring 2012.
Why? Hmmm...the Countach was great, and extremely good looking with fantastic details like the periscope roof, and curved windows...it is just that I did not ride it very often. It was too hot in the summer with the flat windows and no AC, dangerous on cold and wet roads with the 345s in the back, and had a lack of horsepower with the approx 185 horses from the Renault 2.7.
And the Alpine was simply too small for me being over 6ft tall.
I have got a good price for both, then played around with a Porsche 996 convertible for a while, but realized that I do miss the creative process of building my own dream car, and decided to sell the Porsche too...
Now what I am up to:
I have met a polish guy some years ago, and we have kept in touch over the years. He was always dreaming of building his own GT40, and he has made contact to some guys in Poland who are working with fiberglass. They got hold of an old KVA and made some forms with some improvements and they built a frame with suspension based on Ford Granada like the KVA, but also improved a lot.
You can complain about east european engineering, but when I went down for a visit in august, I was surprised how it all turned out. You will not imagine what a messed up place it was in a backyard you will never go when it is dark, but the frame and body turned out to be ok, so I ordered a rolling chassis with bodywork already mounted and a pick up date end of september...
Well, till end of september I haven't heard much from them, and did not get any pictures as promised. After complaining to the polish broker, I finally got some fuzzy pics, and so I decided to go down with a trailer to pick things up a week later in october.
You can imagine what happened, of course they were not finished, and a lot of parts were missing, and overall it was all cobbled together quickly, sprayed with very little primer so it started rusting immediately, and far away from what I have seen at my first visit in august.
Anyway, after a long discussion we reduced the price, I got some extra parts I did not order, we put the stuff on the trailer and was glad to return safe after a 24 houres trip from west to east europe and back...
let me first introduce myself:
My name is Axel, I am 51 and I come from Hamburg/North Germany.
I have already built two cars, a Countach with Renault engine/gearbox and an Alpine A110 speedster, based on a racing body with a shortened beetle chassis and a straight four VW engine.
Both cars did look good, and they were great fun to drive, nevertheless I've sold both cars in spring 2012.
Why? Hmmm...the Countach was great, and extremely good looking with fantastic details like the periscope roof, and curved windows...it is just that I did not ride it very often. It was too hot in the summer with the flat windows and no AC, dangerous on cold and wet roads with the 345s in the back, and had a lack of horsepower with the approx 185 horses from the Renault 2.7.
And the Alpine was simply too small for me being over 6ft tall.
I have got a good price for both, then played around with a Porsche 996 convertible for a while, but realized that I do miss the creative process of building my own dream car, and decided to sell the Porsche too...
Now what I am up to:
I have met a polish guy some years ago, and we have kept in touch over the years. He was always dreaming of building his own GT40, and he has made contact to some guys in Poland who are working with fiberglass. They got hold of an old KVA and made some forms with some improvements and they built a frame with suspension based on Ford Granada like the KVA, but also improved a lot.
You can complain about east european engineering, but when I went down for a visit in august, I was surprised how it all turned out. You will not imagine what a messed up place it was in a backyard you will never go when it is dark, but the frame and body turned out to be ok, so I ordered a rolling chassis with bodywork already mounted and a pick up date end of september...
Well, till end of september I haven't heard much from them, and did not get any pictures as promised. After complaining to the polish broker, I finally got some fuzzy pics, and so I decided to go down with a trailer to pick things up a week later in october.
You can imagine what happened, of course they were not finished, and a lot of parts were missing, and overall it was all cobbled together quickly, sprayed with very little primer so it started rusting immediately, and far away from what I have seen at my first visit in august.
Anyway, after a long discussion we reduced the price, I got some extra parts I did not order, we put the stuff on the trailer and was glad to return safe after a 24 houres trip from west to east europe and back...