therealnovaboy
03-11-11, 07:42 PM
I was talking to my brother today and was telling me about his trip to a fibreglass specialist in Aberdeenshire the other day.
The story starts when he purchased an immaculate OE FG hard top for his lotus Elise. Unsurprisingly the courier that delivered the roof had destroyed it by letting it bounce about the van. The corners were destroyed and he went to see the FG specialist to get a repair quote. Anyway, an old boy, 50 odd rocks up and said the repair shouldn’t be a problem. My brother has a news with him and asks if he dose much FG car body work. He explained not so much now as the cost to make moulds for one off parts is too expensive and not many people ask for it. He went on to explain that there was a guy who asked him to make a FG manta shell. He said it was for a car that was being made for some race, which had an old 4WD F1 car engine, transmission and chassis. He said the car was lengthened to accommodate the manta shell and it was his job to make the FG shell. The old guy said "the boy spent an afa lot of money on it but they cancelled the race". My brother said "it wasn’t group B was it". "Aye that’s it group B he said" . Supposedly the car was never finished and sits in a shed in Turriff somewhere. The Guy said the driver of the F1 car was dead now, I think my brother said Jim Clark?
I found this quite interesting and was wondering if anyone knows what f1 car it was and any info on the car as group B and 4WD F1 was before my time. Perhaps some of the old dears on here might have some info?
The story starts when he purchased an immaculate OE FG hard top for his lotus Elise. Unsurprisingly the courier that delivered the roof had destroyed it by letting it bounce about the van. The corners were destroyed and he went to see the FG specialist to get a repair quote. Anyway, an old boy, 50 odd rocks up and said the repair shouldn’t be a problem. My brother has a news with him and asks if he dose much FG car body work. He explained not so much now as the cost to make moulds for one off parts is too expensive and not many people ask for it. He went on to explain that there was a guy who asked him to make a FG manta shell. He said it was for a car that was being made for some race, which had an old 4WD F1 car engine, transmission and chassis. He said the car was lengthened to accommodate the manta shell and it was his job to make the FG shell. The old guy said "the boy spent an afa lot of money on it but they cancelled the race". My brother said "it wasn’t group B was it". "Aye that’s it group B he said" . Supposedly the car was never finished and sits in a shed in Turriff somewhere. The Guy said the driver of the F1 car was dead now, I think my brother said Jim Clark?
I found this quite interesting and was wondering if anyone knows what f1 car it was and any info on the car as group B and 4WD F1 was before my time. Perhaps some of the old dears on here might have some info?