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My patience have some limits !!!
I wait news from a too long time now and would like to day have some news of my money !!!
For one time, try to respect your promise !
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Hi guys, yes think round arches is the way forward. Been talking to my brother, and we are thinking of possibly changing the Spyder arches very slightly, and wondering about a built in sheilded exhaust low down one side. never know, it might catch on!
My patience have some limits !!!
I wait news from a too long time now and would like to day have some news of my money !!!
For one time, try to respect your promise !
- Sometimes Private Messaging simply doesn't get the expected result...
My patience have some limits !!!
I wait news from a too long time now and would like to day have some news of my money !!!
For one time, try to respect your promise !
Patrice , I appreciate your frustrations .....I am stretched to the limits at the moment ...development has been necessary to survive...fact.
Your car has taken too long to do ....fact. That I am very sorry about....fact
I will give you a full update via email tomorrow.
Moneywise ....I hope something was lost in translation , we gave you an INCREDIBLE price as it allowed me to develop the product . I have about 4 times what you have paid in the car so far .....development costs mostly , but if you take my development money out of the equation , you have still gotten a vehicle at a stage that should have cost you nearly twice what it has .....not moaning , I gave you a price - my fault. Just putting some perspective back in place.
THE G46 HAS BEEN NEGLECTED IN RECENT WEEKS - THIS IS ABOUT TO CHANGE.
If you feel you don't want to continue , we can discuss that in an email....I understand , if thats the case.......
Hi guys, yes think round arches is the way forward. Been talking to my brother, and we are thinking of possibly changing the Spyder arches very slightly, and wondering about a built in sheilded exhaust low down one side. never know, it might catch on!
The Rocker
Could look ok.....Barry Mays car has a side exhaust.....
Reading the critique about my G46 and looking at the mods you are doing and others talking about , I am thinking about stopping production of the car when everyone on the list is sorted out and maybe reworking it ....might be a more complicated option for people compared to the Spyder / Cordite range to build , but would be a fantastic low volume car.......
Sounds interesting. I'll have to have a chat with you at Stoneliegh about the future plans of the car as I'm not ready to order just yet (apart from anything, I still haven't actually seen one in the flesh) and if you're halting production then I won't be able to order for a little while anyway, but you've seen my photochop of the G46 on this site somewhere (in this thread, I think), I've made a few comments on this site and I've emailed you about a few things in the past (before I found this site).
The G46 is definitely a way forward for me, although I'm more in line with Charman in thinking (including the recessed exhaust), so if your thoughts are moving in those sorts of direction, I'd be very interested indeed.
.......I'll have to have a chat with you at Stoneliegh about the future plans of the car..............if you're halting production then I won't be able to order for a little while anyway.........
(Volospian's post edited by Nike55)
Hi Lancelot, noted the above and your previous email regarding G46 progress to Patoune, with whom I have recently been in contact.
The G46 project created a lot of interest and I'm not sure you expected the number of suggested design 'tweaks' that would ensue but hope some of these will make the production of the next series of the G46 quicker and easier, perhaps with a reduction of the use of the raw materials which has increased. If the price of fibre glass and resin goes any higher it may be cheaper to produce the car in alloy - I can imagine Mike on an English wheel!
I appreciate R&D can temporarily halt a project (or can kill it off completely) but the results are usually worth waiting for, so I look forward to the unveiling of the revised model, indeed doubly so, as only a few of us will have received an original prototype G46 which will be highly valued in years to come..
Talking of which, I look forward to meeting you at Stonleigh to discuss the progress of the on-going conversion of my Scimitar delivered in Feb and to seek an update on costs.
As you are likely to be extremely popular do we 'take a number' or are you booking time slots....?!
Glad I was able to meet you and Mike again at Stoneleigh and thanks for the update regarding my previously commissioned G46.
I look forward to visiting Poole in a few weeks when the body is on the Scimitar chassis.
As you know I am itching to get the car finished in order to show what a great looking design the G46 is and to neutralise the comments of the 'Round Wheel Arch Society' (splitters!) Everyone knows the true way is that of the Squared Wheel Arch..
FERRARI 410 , ONE OF MY OBVIOUS INSPIRATIONS .... big car built primarily to kick ass in the Carrera Panamericana road race ...
I make no excuse for borrowing the arch design ....
Whats also interesting in that shot as well , is how central the cockpit looks with its long overhang at rear...
I remember this picture nailed to your wall in the work shop when we came down to buy the G46 and yes the central cockpit long overhang looks stunning.
interesting variation on the flip up bonnet also. Looks like the Ferrari hinges half way along. Stop the issue with headlight alignment etc, but how do you top up the radiator? Maybe a small child is required!
Ferrari 625 TRC Spider sells for astonishing £4m at Monaco auction
I know Garry is beginning to doubt the G46.
Its a big project and it has taken a while for it to mature as the spyder and cordite variations steal his attention.
But the yahoo headline today might help motivate and sell a few more
A Ferrari has become one of the world's most valuable cars after it was sold at auction for an incredible
£4m.
The Ferrari 625 TRC Spider
Petrolheads shelled out more than £26 million at the RM Auctions event in Monaco, with ten cars fetching in excess of £800,000 (€1 million) each.
But it was this stunning 1957 Ferrari 625 TRC Spider which stole the show after a bidding frenzy broke out among wealthy investors.
The auction house was hoping the car would fetch around £2.4 million (€3m) but, as with many classic Ferraris, this proved to be a conservative estimate.
Jaws dropped around the hall when the hammer eventually went down at £4 million (€5,040,000) - making it the star lot.
One of just two ever built, the 55-year-old car has been described as "one of the prettiest ever Ferraris" boasting a "design without fault".
The 1950s racer was originally fitted with a 2.5-litre engine but underwent a full restoration in 1982 and now has a 3-litre V12 engine which develops 320bhp.
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