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Ace, Aceca & Greyhound Forum / Road Test
« on: October 04, 2014, 00:58:43 »
There is a reprint of a 1961 road test from August that year in the November edition of Motor Sport.
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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / Mk IV at Brooklamds Motor Company
« on: May 17, 2008, 13:32:08 »
This is my car after an unfortunate damage at the front. The car is an 1984 Mk IV with only 4.500 miles on the clock. It has 15 Inch wheels and as an very early car it has Mk III suspensions.
This small M8 screw at the entrance of the garage was the reason for the damage.
The front panel was damaged when I left the garage backwards[
!]. Regarding the damage it was the first time I doubted that the real thing should have an aluminium body and I thought a carbon car would be a good choice!?!
Even the front wings were damaged! Up to that time my experiences with classic car repairers were very different and I found out, that is important to choose them carefully. My contacts to the cobra scene were limited, but I had contact to an ACOC member in the UK. He recommended Steve Gray´s Brooklands Motor Company in Surrey. He discribed him as not cheap but doing very good labour.
Another attempt was to contacted the long term Cobra Mk II owner Rolf in Duisburg, who recommended another specialist in Neuss near Düsseldorf, just half an hour away from my home. He had repaired Rolfs Bentley and Rolf was satisfied with the way the job was done. I showed the car to the guy in Neuss and he explained his technique to take the shape of the body section from another car using aluminium foil. In former time he had manufactured a complete Porsche 550 body from aluminium.
Because it was obvious to me, that I was the one to care about a car to take the shape from and I didn´t want a copy from a handmade body uncertain if that one had the right shape, I decided to bring the car to Steve Grays Brooklands Motor Company. Another reasons for the decision was on one hand the knowledge, that Steve has the original body tools and that obviously his company is one of the last survivors of the guys making the real thing.
I brought the car to Surrey personally and I found out, that Steve is a nice guy. He took some time to take me to the Brooklands Museum, to the banks of the Brooklands Curcuit and we visited the ground on the test hill he choosed for his new workshop. I like his idea to restore the old restaurant buildings on the top of the test hill and to have a mixture of exhibition and workshop there. What a perfect place to work on Cobras! (To be continued)
This small M8 screw at the entrance of the garage was the reason for the damage.
The front panel was damaged when I left the garage backwards[
!]. Regarding the damage it was the first time I doubted that the real thing should have an aluminium body and I thought a carbon car would be a good choice!?!Even the front wings were damaged! Up to that time my experiences with classic car repairers were very different and I found out, that is important to choose them carefully. My contacts to the cobra scene were limited, but I had contact to an ACOC member in the UK. He recommended Steve Gray´s Brooklands Motor Company in Surrey. He discribed him as not cheap but doing very good labour.
Another attempt was to contacted the long term Cobra Mk II owner Rolf in Duisburg, who recommended another specialist in Neuss near Düsseldorf, just half an hour away from my home. He had repaired Rolfs Bentley and Rolf was satisfied with the way the job was done. I showed the car to the guy in Neuss and he explained his technique to take the shape of the body section from another car using aluminium foil. In former time he had manufactured a complete Porsche 550 body from aluminium.
Because it was obvious to me, that I was the one to care about a car to take the shape from and I didn´t want a copy from a handmade body uncertain if that one had the right shape, I decided to bring the car to Steve Grays Brooklands Motor Company. Another reasons for the decision was on one hand the knowledge, that Steve has the original body tools and that obviously his company is one of the last survivors of the guys making the real thing.
I brought the car to Surrey personally and I found out, that Steve is a nice guy. He took some time to take me to the Brooklands Museum, to the banks of the Brooklands Curcuit and we visited the ground on the test hill he choosed for his new workshop. I like his idea to restore the old restaurant buildings on the top of the test hill and to have a mixture of exhibition and workshop there. What a perfect place to work on Cobras! (To be continued)
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Mk IV, Superblower, CRS and other Continuation Cars Forum / front lower swivels
« on: April 29, 2008, 19:55:15 »
Any idea which car the lower bearings for the front lower swivels come from-trouble with the mot-my car is a 1997 mk4.?Thanks Richard Thompson
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