WOW!
Now that is a bit of valuable information.
I see now there is a "spares co-ordinator" in the list of Club Officers in ACtion. Thank you for offering up this information!
There have been a great number of posts on these boards speculating on parts and where to find them, but not until now has anyone mentioned that the ACOC "spares co-ordinator" has parts available. A well-kept secret, at least on this Forum.
"The ACOC parts co-ordinator told me that he had all of the listed parts available except for the body panels which belonged to Andy Shepherd. I'll see if I can find the back issue to retrieve the list of parts. "
(I think I've been too harsh here. I went through my back issues of ACtion, and - yes - there is a list of parts available. Not things like switches and latches, but useful stuff never the less)
What list? The one painfully researched by members trying to find parts for their cars, without input from the "spares co-ordinator"?
Shep - You have body panels? That's interesting...
I bid for the rear wing panel listed on Ebay because I thought it might be the only one extant, and I wanted to preserve it for my own benefit (just "in case") and for others restoring their own cars. There seem to be quite a few cars on this side of the Atlantic in need of proper restoration.
I need a spare windshield. There has been talk of having them made - expensive and very possibly unnecessary if there is "store" of these things. Shipping from the UK to the USA is horrendously expensive. I am reasonably certain that Mr. Frua used an existing pattern for his glass - and that there might be Windshields, and all the other glass available here in the U.S. if only one knew what to ask for.
One of my first jobs when I was still a student, was working construction in Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire. My job was to go to contruction sites with the Scottish supervisor (derisively referred to as "Jock") and repair the faulty work done by the crew. Deliberately faulty work. I was appalled by the attitude of these guys, who resented their jobs, and would go out of their way to screw up. I remember going to a job, the crew sitting around on one of MANY tea breaks they took, snickering when it was discovered that they had put the plumbing of a new house in backwards. They'd flipped the plans over, and deliberately did the whole job wrong.
Perhaps this bloody-mindedness lives on in Britain. How amusing it must be, sitting on the sidelines, watching others flail around when just a little co-operation could save so much time and effort.
