Quote Originally Posted by SUSIT View Post
As an Allora owner this is an interesting post. One thing i have found is not the flat roof (mine is flattish ) but the curve from the roof to side panel (B pillar) is unequal side to side. My tub got damaged some years ago in an RTA and has been repaired using a side panel from a Hawk but I purchased a Corse centre tub couple of years ago. It would seem this tub has the same issue re the curve / shape of roof to B pillar so i can only assume was made from a modified Allora mold
All the Corse bodies have a connection to the Allora moulds. I'm sure that the Allora moulds came as part of whatever deal was arranged for the project. At some point these moulds maybe got modified to try and eliminate some of the issues with the LH sill & door line. From memory CAE had some mods done, maybe to the section of bodyline just behind the front wheel arch. The later Tony Favarin moulds were only a rip off of the existing Corse ones but in this case the flat roof was reshaped to be convex rather than concave. All the other issues I am sure were carried over. The Favarin bodies are distinguishable because of their weight, whilst the original Corse bodies were not a great fit you could move and manipulate them to get them to be the best they could be. The Favarin body I saw (Mick W's) I think was probably bullet proof, it was twice the thickness of a conventional lay up and it was so rigid that where it sat was where it sat.
As talked about in the depths of this forum the Corse roof probably got more concave over time, the early Allora's still had the convex roof but as the years went on the roofs got flatter & flatter. This was because the centre tub mould had no stiffening frame and the weight of the mould sat on the roof section during lay up. The longer it sat this way the more concave the panels became.