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last weekend DevaDubs :wink:
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Here's me chasing down Paul at Castle Combe classic and retro day

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I don't know about anyone else here but i absolutely love the look of these cars, i'm half tempted to get one once i got my other project out the way.
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This is mine !
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Looks lovely
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My Speedster is just out of the paintshop. Here it is together with a couple of pictures of earlier steps along the journey! I'm hoping to have it on the road in Spring 2014. This is a Speedster Clinic replica.
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My 'Black Betty'...

It's a SCCA racer (re)creation:

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Looks great - any further details of the car & its spec on DDK ?
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Lightweight_911 wrote:Looks great - any further details of the car & its spec on DDK ?

Bit more here Andy http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... ilit=betty
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Here's a bit more indeed:
http://www.ddk-online.com/phpBB2/viewto ... 17&t=45842

And the complete build can be viewed here:
http://spyderclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1 ... &start=150
(I know it's a different forum, but then I hadn't heard of this forum yet!)

Some stats:

Engine: Riechert type 4 (horizontal cooling with original 901 fan)
capacity: 1.800cc (AT engine, with engine# AT0000778):
Specs: 316' Engle cam, Mahle cylinders and pistons, 45mm double Weber carburators, 45mm CSP Python exhaust.

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The engine runs perfectly:
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Weight of the car: 660 kg

More questions? I'll be happy to answer them... :wink:
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Congrats on your build firstly, super cool car.

Who's body is that? Just out of interest. What tyres are you using front and back?
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The body is a custom made one by VPS (Vaandrager Performance Speedsters), a small Dutch company dat doesn't exist anymore (see http://www.vaandrager-performance.nl), c.q. doesn't produce Speedster(body)s anymore...

He made a mold/cast of an original 57 Speedster and made appr. 20 bodies with that mold/cast. Mine is one of the last bodies he has made and he made -according to my wishes- some changes to the body and subframe (that's appr. 5 kg lighter than the regular subrame).

Furthermore parts of the body of my car are not Fiberglass but Kevlar reinforced.

I've used Vredestein 165/15 Classic Sprint on the front and the rear...
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