New member from Low Countries

[NurLinks]

I've been a DDK Lurker for quite some time now. In the mean time I have registered, paid membership fees, bought a car (from Dan Squires) and a steering wheel (from Jonathan Parr), so it's time to register.

My name is Arthur, I am from the Netherlands and I've been a total car nut since I learned to walk and make engine noises. My first love was Alfa Romeo, which I inherited from my father and grandfather who were both true Alfisti. I've owned a GT's, aGTV 6, an SZ, several Spiders and raced a stepfront GT and a 147GTA cup car. I still own an Alfa Romeo Giulia Super which my grandfather bought new in 1971.

Porsche always appealed because of their history in long distance racing and because of the balance and quality of their engineering capabilities. Some years ago I was offered a 1986 3.3 turbo by a friend who owned it for more than 20 years and although more 'shed sh*t' (is that a word) than barn find it was so original and unmolested that I bought it. The car is fully fettled now and looks and drive fantastic. I use it as much as possible and even went skiing in it this year.

Last year I was lucky enough to be able to buy Dan Squires fantastic RSR replica. Thanks Dan, what a great car!!! Although the car was great when I bought it, I've since done quite a lot of work on the suspension. In fact it has been fully replaced and rebuilt, which further improved the handling. I've made some other cosmetic changes (Jonathan, thanks for the steering wheel) and some technical upgrades. Also this car is used regularly on the road and on track.

Because I love the engineering and racing side of cars as much as the driving, I've recently bought a perfect 1974 2.7 shell (with the rest of the car in boxes), and have just started the preparations to make it into an FIA Appendix K racing car. I'm really exited about this and by the time I have found out how to post pictures I intend to share the progress.

Sofar DDK has been great. A refreshing lack of rivet counters, some good banter and an 'anything goes' mentality. Also some amazing and very interesting project threads and a huge amount of useable knowhow and friendly advice.

[hot66]

Welcome to Ddk

[Ian 2.2S]

Welcome to DDK Arthur, sounds like some great cars, past and present.
Glad to see you don't need telling to post some photos see link for help
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3864&start=15
When you said low countries I thought you meant another Redneck from East Anglia

[cubist]

Welcome Arthur. Any pics of your past Alfas, especially the race car?

[NurLinks]

Hope this works

Alfa by popular request:



3.3 turbo



Tangerine





Her nakedness

[squirdan]

good to see the car is in good hands Arthur

maybe see you next year at Goodwood.

keep us up with the new build!

dan

[NurLinks]

Thanks Dan! Rest assured, 'your' car is being well taken care of. I treated the old lady to some new Ohlins dampers, all rubber suspension bushing have been replaced by polybronze ER bushings and uniballs, it's a little stiffer on the springs and it has beautiful adjustable anti roll bars front AND rear. We've dialled out the bump steer, gave it more camber on all corners and a little more agressive alignment.





The handling is now fantastically balanced and perfectly adjustable. The car responds so nicely to inputs.



In other news: thanks to the assistance of Custom Cages, I finally have the certificate for the roll cage. Tuthill's were not willing to provide any assistance on this, which is not very sporting of them, considering the sums you paid them for all the work. Even Custom Cages were perplexed by their attitude. Anyway, big thanks to Custom Cages and their after sales department. Now that the certificate is there and I've fitted a 110 liter FIA foam filled steel tank, the car can now be raced. If I loose patience with the 3.0 build I can fulfill the urge to race with your old car.

The build of the 3.0 RSR will start shortly, I hope. Selecting and sourcing parts is the first priority. It will be a FIA compliant (App K.) car for historic racing, built according to 1975 homologation and App J. We're starting from scratch -a professionally restored and painted shell that is-, which has the advantage that we know the car from the inside out and have full control over the build quality. There are so many things to research, consider and decide. Apart from personal preference the car far more importantly also has to comply to the regulations AND must be quick and reliable.

First to arrive were the body parts, which are of amazing quality and very light (sorry for the poor quality pics).





I can hopefully pick up the next batch of parts on Monday in the UK.





All made to order stuff, mainly suspension and brake related. We can start in earnest sometime this fall.

Will post some updates once it gets interesting.

[squirdan]

fantastic mate and good news about the cage certification.

Car looks great, love the action shot

just bought tickets for next years Members Meeting so might not be able to offer you the house again but hopefully have a beer!

Dan

[Darren65]

Wonderful collection of cars Arthur and the new project sounds awesome, please keep us updated if you can.

Btw, can you say who modified your trailing arms?

Cheers,