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RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - jansens - 12-05-2019
Congrats R! I know how it feels. Today I drove my special for the first time. After nearly 8 years working on it!
Simon
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Howard Wright - 12-05-2019
Absolutely fabulous (the pink running boards)
The cup looks good too!
Well done Ruairidh. We may (very tentative) be in Scotland around rally time and I would love to pop in just to see the Cups!
Your voting scheme for prizes will really be for Cups this year!!!!
Cheers
Howard
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Ruairidh Dunford - 12-05-2019
(12-05-2019, 01:09 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: "Salmon pink" ...No, no. Try general Motors Pulsating Primrose... P.S. That's an impressive rate of progress in the last twelve hours.
It was nice to see you all - I do hope your journey home was okay.
As you will now know - having time on my own projects is a very rare thing and I tend to make the most of them. I had my friend help me yesterday, which was invaluable - thank you Charlie!
Howard - everyone is very welcome, I hope you come.
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Mike Costigan - 12-05-2019
(12-05-2019, 01:09 AM)Tony Griffiths Wrote: ... That's an impressive rate of progress in the last twelve hours.
I was about to say something similar. When Tony and I saw the car twelve hours earlier, there was no radiator, lamps, wings, instruments, registration plates; in fact never mind about seats and carpets, there wasn't even any floor!
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Chris KC - 12-05-2019
Great work Ruairidh! I can just imagine how it feels taking her down the road for the first time.
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Ruairidh Dunford - 29-05-2019
The Cup is off for her big op. on Monday night - she's getting her bonnet clipped and her wings repaired, plus a lot of other little and no so little things that need to be made/fitted and then painted.
I grabbed an hour tonight to fit the front and back bonnet trims, will add a couple of the wire clips to the front tomorrow...
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Ruairidh Dunford - 01-06-2019
Having completed this on Thursday...
...I awarded myself some time on the Cup again today.
I made up patterns for the windscreen glass and took them to the glaziers to be cut. A friendly Forum member contacted me about the gearbox I had and offered to swap it for one with the correct selector orientation - I gratefully accepted (thank you Gary) and today removed all the floor before lifting the gearbox off the engine and fitting the other - there really is great space for doing this in the Cup!
Tony's ad/retard quadrant arrived and I was able to fit it neatly in place - thank you Tony!
I then started to clip in the wiring for the rear lights and hope to complete the rest tomorrow - I am really enjoying just looking at the car just now - sorry, it's been a long time coming and I like the way it has come together!
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - AllAlloyCup - 01-06-2019
Hi Ruairidh
Your Cup runneth over!
It’s looking great and will soon be
Motoring to Guildtown!
Regards
Bill G
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Ruairidh Dunford - 01-06-2019
Lots of little time consuming jobs that you will be familiar with Bill.
RE: Cup in a Box - resurrected from the old Forum... - Nick Turley - 03-06-2019
Looks a great job and now at a very exciting stage. Go for it.