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Old 24th July 2010, 10:20 AM
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Shall I break out the pistols

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Old 24th July 2010, 10:24 AM
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never said you did! just added my opinion that I dont think it matters.
didnt intend to offend anyone or start an argument
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Well you used a confused smiley so I guess you are looking for an explanation, so to provide it I thought maybe you thought I implied that it did matter, because you had a question mark after the 'does it matter' comment. I don't want to offend anyone either which is why I said that I wasn't suggesting that it mattered in my first comment, if you see what I mean
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Old 24th July 2010, 10:44 AM
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When you look at the MK Indy a lot of the panels are very similar TT but where extended / widened by Mark, Fabby, to fit the wider Haynes chassis. It looks like the HSR body was designed to fit straight over the Indy but maybe the extra width and length of the Haynes would make it a problem. Martin did design the Chassis with Chris with the suspension geometry designed on Lotus software.

Maybe an email to Martin would give you the answer, i'm sure if anyone would know then he would:

martin@keenan7060.freeserve.co.uk

I'm sure its still this e-mail.

We do have an enclosed body shell for the Roadster but it's going to take an extreme amount of work to get it to a condition where it can be used.

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Old 24th July 2010, 12:19 PM
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They are all Locosts really as Uncle Ron's book sparked them all off (me included), all that has happened is the chassis has been tweaked to accept Sierra stuff rather than Escort...... My Lotus 11ish thing was loosely based on Ron's chassis but with a few tweaks, why reinvent the wheel or more to the point claim to have reinvented the wheel...

I can think of at least four firms producing 7's that are the same size as Uncle Ron's Locost a few have grown in size because folk eat too many pies
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Old 24th July 2010, 03:52 PM
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I am not planning on doing it myself, at least not on build #1

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Just to clear it up. martin designed and built the car. chris wrote the book and helped in his usual way .

side by side the roadster is noticeably bigger than an indy. i doubt the hsr body will fit without a bit of bit of cutting and shutting of the fg.

next time im out on a run with the skcc lads i will compare the roadster a bit more closely with an indy.
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Old 25th July 2010, 10:01 AM
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As for the mags well, they write what the manufacturers want them to write.
When my old beast was tested by Which Kit they wrote it had a dedion rear axle fitted when in fact it didn't.....the owner at the time told me not to rush out and buy a copy as I would be pissed off at what has been written.
He was right I was pissed off..
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