Nellie's New Coat

Hi All

As most of you are aware Nellie has been converted to Group 4 square arched and had a new colour scheme which is based on the 1981 Casciana "Jensen / Olympus" car... the rest I will leave to pictures !

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A HUGE thank you to Craig at LB for the supply and fitting of the Arches and for the supply of the Rally pods and roof scoop........... fantastic job...........

To Sando for the stickers they are BRILLIANT and he never complained about my .. "can you just's" !

Paint is spot on and by Paint Perfect at Lincoln

Thanks to you all

Phil

Sorry forgot to say a big thank you to YACCO France for supplying their stickers for the project

Thanks again YACCO

Phil

Wow Phil,
that looks great, Craig and Sando (YACCO) and you did a nice job!
and so we know that LB arches will fit on a Hawk/Transformer.
Enzo

Looks the dog's all right Phil. Make sure it stays that way!
Shall we do a sweepstake on how soon you get pulled for the number plate?

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Shall we do a sweepstake on how soon you get pulled for the number plate?

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'Needs an oval French 'F' sticker on the back?

looks STUNNING !
you must be really pleased
my favourite Italian lager too

Andy

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Originally Posted by ProtoTipo

'Needs an oval French 'F' sticker on the back?

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Or an Italian 'I' ?

Hello
Congratulation on your update !!!
Hope to see this beauty on the flesh soon !!!
If you need an F just let me know !!!

Bravo bravo !!

Well done Phil......................looks excellent.

Great colour scheme

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'Needs an oval French 'F' sticker on the back?

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Tricolour and Philipé Dolbié on the door might help as well!!

Looks Great Phil :cool::cool:

Excellent work. For rallying know-nothings like me, how well did the original car do?

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Originally Posted by goldtop

Excellent work. For rallying know-nothings like me, how well did the original car do?

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Thanks.... and good question !!

the car ran in the early 1980's driven by Filippi and co driven by de Mela.... results wise I don't know, there was also a similar car but instead of pale blue it was pink... but exactly the same sticker layout

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then there was another car with Cromadora plastered all over the front clam
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Nice to see another livery Pops, looks great. Did Ma prefer the pink?

Looks great, never took notice of that colour scheme before. Class

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Nice to see another livery Pops, looks great. Did Ma prefer the pink?

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....... Yeah right !...lol

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Do the lower fog lamps impede the level of front clam opening? How far do they extend out past the nose and sit off the ground?

When I fitted the lower pods on my car, they did limit the opening, but I moved the pivot point for the front clam forwad and regained a decent amount of opening. The lower pods are still the first to hit the ground though..
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This is with the pivots moved, with out moving them the front wouldnt open even this, now it could open much further if wanted.

Thanks Neil, any photos of your mod?

Here is a shot of the moved pivot, you can see it is moved as far forward as I could.
Its about 100mm further forward and 1/2" lower.

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"Its about 100mm further forward and 1/2" lower."

I love how we Brits can mix and match units. I have just spent 3 weeks installing American equipment for a show in Hannover, working with American and German Engineers having to translate inches to millimetres and millimetres to inches for them. :)

Thanks Neil, looks to be a "substantial" change just to fit the fog lamps!!

David, does the LB clam suffer a similar issue?

In my case it wasnt much of a change, as I had the chassis strpped anyway. It is also needed to get some clearance for the chin spoiler when opening the front.
You dont really need much access under the front when out and about, and in the garage you can just jack up the front if you need more access...

Not so bad on the LB, I have my stays set so the pods stop about 10mm from the ground and can still get good access inside. The only thing to watch is that you don't jack the back up with the front clam open as they will then bottom out.

I guess all manufacturers have the pivot in a different place, but I think the hawk is close to the Corse...