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Nice looking paint job!

Lovely! Not seen a car yet that looks bad in silver.

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Thanks Nick, just needed to bump tread up due to all of the new enquiries caused by Rogers car!

A352 at Stoneleigh Show 2015

Due to the huge positive response to Roger's brilliant A352 at Stoneleigh, here is some info prior to it finally being updated on our website:

1x 1 piece GRP bodyshell (to fit the Spitfire tub)
1x single skin GRP bonnet
1x single skin GRP boot lid
2x double skinned GRP doors
1x set of GRP internal cockpit panels (2x sides + 1x rear bulkhead)
1x set of GRP inner arch infill panels for rear
1x set of GRP inner arch infill panels for engine bay
2x steel door bars
2x steel internal door hinges
1x pair perspex headlight covers

Price for this package will be £1954 with NO VAT.

Additional items such as windscreen+posts, side screens, head fairing, central cockpit bar will follow shortly, with prices TBC.

Magnificent!

Apologies for using this for a general enquiry but has anyone else lost access to the images posted to this and other threads? The recent changes to Photobucket have stopped me from accessing the images in-thread - I'm assuming others have the same issue.

Is there anything we can do to recover them? The build pictures displayed here are superb - would be a great shame to lose them.

You could ask Chris at Tribute to email them to you from his photobucket account ...

I was rather thinking about how we restore the photos to the forum for others to use.

Unfortunately, there is currently no quick fix to this.

Personally, I've got over 1,000 photos with broken links, so it will take a while to fix the mess.

The feedback I've seen directed at Photobucket does mention the fact that overnight they ruined useful information stored on countless forums and blogs around the world.

Unless they change there policy, I fear many old photos will have been lost forever.

Cheers, Paul.

AFAIK, no photos have been lost. They remain on Photobucket in the accounts of the original owners.
In order for them to re-appear on their respective forums, the owners need to pay Photobucket $399.99 a year.
Or arrange alternative storage and re-establish each link to each pic in each of the forums.

As above, but it is actually $499 a year to get the plan that allows 3rd parting hosting.

Given the fact they have 100,000,000+ customers, they may be targeting just a 1% take up worldwide.

As that would still raise $500 million in a few days/weeks.

Which might explain why Photobucket do not appear to care if 99% of their customers leave.

If they hadn't been so greedy and just charged $10 for 2 years hosting they would have had a much larger take up and probably renewals every 2 years.
I really, really hope they go tits up. Greedy bastards

It's the Plus500 account that allows 3rd party access at $39.99 a month or $399.99 per year according to the blurb on my account.
I have amended my earlier message.
I have websites and storage elsewhere so will investigate 3rd party links from there. Photobucket's loss...

just use flikr

Photobucket pictures are now back following a fix that has been found that Paul L informed me about (cheers Paul)

Don't know how long this will last as PB will probably get wise to it so I wouldn't recommend hosting your images with them if you want to link pics to forums.

At least the pictures can be recovered from the forum if you had trouble getting them from your PB account.

Cheers, John

Well done that man!

I had been deleting the photobucket pictures and replacing them with the same pictures that are now stored on Flickr. Trouble is that once the originals have been deleted it's hard to remember what picture was originally there.
I do think Flickr is quicker and easier to use that photobucket, it always seemed to take ages.

Great news ....well done ...

Seconded - what a pity this had to happen at all. Good work!

A question for the collective - when you discuss wheel spacers the impression I get is a set of solid aluminium billets, often expensive and imported from overseas or else from Canleys. Would these items (which have appeared on eBay) work equally as well?

A neighbour of mine was pedalling his race prepared Puma around Castle Combe last weekend when he clipped a kerb at about 75mph. The offside front wheel came off- all 4 studs sheared and he met Mr Armco, then some nice nurses in the ambulance. Luckily just a hurty shoulder now and a £400 bill for a new hub, front wings, headlight and labour to fit.
On checking, he found that his car is the only one in the series using spacers (solid alloy with longer one-piece studs in his case)- although probably not now. The wheel nuts had been correctly torqued and checked again just before the event.
Just saying.

This universal style isn't the best design.
1/ The adaptor studs often have to be over tightened or worse, left a bit slack so they line up with the slot in the spacer.
2/ The adaptor studs can be of dubious quality.
3/ The central hole in the spacer is oversize so the nut and studs not only clamp the wheel to the hub but also carry the weight of the car.

They will do the job to increase the track of the car but you wouldn't want to push a car to its limits in the corners, the spacer set would be the first component to fail.

If you have to use spacers buy a set designed to fit your hub and wheel combination.

Well of course - but one of the key issues in the A352 build is the need for a set of spacers to fill out the wheel arches. I also have no intention of putting something like this into competition racing wither. Wider wheels will only go so far. But appreciate the comments, thank you.

Its worth paying a little more when it comes to components like this. From an engineering and safety point of view , universal spacers are not the best solution. I have even seen people double up these type of spacers to go even wider which is a bigger no no. At least when you go with a bespoke spacer you can get the exact width you require and get it to fit so it runs true.