McCloud 85
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Thanks for all the comments guys, it's always nice to hear your opinions on the progress!
Thought I'd try and answer a few of the queries raised..
I think like mentioned before the purpose of this car was to make a name for the company, I don't think it was intended to even be sold on. So the way the car was built I guess had a different approach, nor do we know the circumstances i.e timescales or budgets.
It's been challenging shall we say at times to keep getting back underneath the thing to fix the next problem, especially in the beginning when I could hardly drive it, even now I'm battling with a fuel tank issue (more on that soon) which is making driving the car a little irritating!
Yes the car was sold to Warren on here who had it for a number of years before I bought it around this time last year. I think at the time it was sold the company was established and for the owner was a way of gaining some money back for its build cost.
I also hope soon that I'll be able to enjoy it a lot more!
Strangely a lot of the parts on the car are actually the better end of the scale, which would have cost a fair bit. The engine itself would have cost a fair bit to build and seems to be well built. Just some other aspects were perhaps rushed... My aim as hopefully you can tell, is to work through the car and repair/replace whatever is required whilst keeping it on the road as much as possible.
Thanks again for all the comments, feel free to throw any queries/questions my way as much as you like.
Another update soon hopefully!
Thought I'd try and answer a few of the queries raised..
red said:If previous comments are to go by then it was because they never intended it to run this long and it was more of a 'look at us we can do this' statement.
I guess this this goes in hand with the fact it wasn't a customer car.
I think like mentioned before the purpose of this car was to make a name for the company, I don't think it was intended to even be sold on. So the way the car was built I guess had a different approach, nor do we know the circumstances i.e timescales or budgets.
JSP said:It's an incredibly impressive job that's being done here. I'm amazed at the level of dedication it must require, particularly when one issue gets sorted and another three come to light, it must be so disheartening!!!
With regards Pumaspeed, I'm completely baffled. Surely the costs and time spent to do the job properly wouldn't have been vastly more than they were to do it badly? Also, I assume this car was sold by Pumaspeed at some point? (Please correct me if this is wrong). So why as a company would you want your name associated with this level of workmanship? Surely, you'd want to use this vehicle to showcase your engineering standards. As it is, (whatever their reasoning was at the time), having followed this thread, I wouldn't trust them to change a tyre!
Finally, just to echo what everyone else has already said.... Hats off to you for doing such a fantastic and thorough job in the face of extreme adversity. I hope you get an enormous amount of satisfaction and enjoyment from it for many years to come.
It's been challenging shall we say at times to keep getting back underneath the thing to fix the next problem, especially in the beginning when I could hardly drive it, even now I'm battling with a fuel tank issue (more on that soon) which is making driving the car a little irritating!
Yes the car was sold to Warren on here who had it for a number of years before I bought it around this time last year. I think at the time it was sold the company was established and for the owner was a way of gaining some money back for its build cost.
I also hope soon that I'll be able to enjoy it a lot more!
russv said:I guess they just got it working with whatever they had laying around, looks that way anyway... how can it not, with the 10mm socket used as a spacer and that earth cable lol. Maybe they intended to get it working then fix up the bodges later, but never got round to it. I can understand why, since if its fulfilling its purpose with the bodges, theres not much return for fixing them (not that I think thats the best way to do it, but I can see how it happens, seeing as time/money/staff aren't infinite!). But I gotta say its still unbelievable how it seems almost every little thing has got something dodgy about it, and some just seem so unnecessary Oo
Either way its nice to see it getting the TLC it deserves
Looking forward to when its finished, hope you'll get some vids for us to watch! :wink:
Strangely a lot of the parts on the car are actually the better end of the scale, which would have cost a fair bit. The engine itself would have cost a fair bit to build and seems to be well built. Just some other aspects were perhaps rushed... My aim as hopefully you can tell, is to work through the car and repair/replace whatever is required whilst keeping it on the road as much as possible.
Thanks again for all the comments, feel free to throw any queries/questions my way as much as you like.
Another update soon hopefully!