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Tribute Z3gato (?!!)

30 May 2019, 8:37pm
Lucky@LeMans wrote:
Had a brief visit and look around this place today down in Cobham, Wow !!
http://www.rswilliams.co.uk/


I agree, grown up's sweetshop. I must make plans to visit myself.
10 Jun 2019, 10:50pm
Fantastic read. Can't wait for the next update. Sincerely, well done.

I may have missed it, but is this a one off, or will Chris be taking a mould and selling these?
10 Jun 2019, 11:09pm
clinkadink wrote:
Fantastic read. Can't wait for the next update. Sincerely, well done.

I may have missed it, but is this a one off, or will Chris be taking a mould and selling these?

Chris will be taking moulds, he has not yet decided whether to offer panel kits or turnkey builds so far as I know. Updates due soon.
14 Jul 2019, 6:36pm
Any updates Barber?
Inquiring minds need to know :)
27 Jul 2019, 2:48am
I know your car isn’t like an Aston, but does share some styling cues from cars of that era.
I was stuck on a long haul flight to Asia and found a black and white picture of an Aston and couldn’t help but play with it on my iPad during the flight.
Cars of this era and style sure look cool.
Can’t wait to see how yours turns out!
27 Jul 2019, 8:33am
Munky wrote:
I know your car isn’t like an Aston, but does share some styling cues from cars of that era.
I was stuck on a long haul flight to Asia and found a black and white picture of an Aston and couldn’t help but play with it on my iPad during the flight.
Cars of this era and style sure look cool.
Can’t wait to see how yours turns out!


Munky, thanks for these, interesting to see the cars in different colours. The Sage green is almost universal, but seeing the blue and gold is really interesting. The blue is quite similar to JagTVR's California 250 and more recently Geoff's new 250 coupe. It goes really well. Evanta had a demo car in silver, which looks cool also.

I hope to have an update soon.
27 Jul 2019, 8:54am
Dark colours would work too such as midnight blue and the very dark racing greens used by Jaguar back in the day.
28 Jul 2019, 2:12am
Lucky@LeMans wrote:
Dark colours would work too such as midnight blue and the very dark racing greens used by Jaguar back in the day.


I agree, especially the Jaguar green - Moss Green?
28 Jul 2019, 5:17pm
It might be because of the light exposure on some of the images I’ve been playing with, but once you get past a certain darkness in colour, the lines of the car seem to quickly disappear.

This is the third image I’ve tried with dark green and probably the best as far as not washing out all of the cars lines.

I could see this working :)
28 Jul 2019, 5:54pm
Thanks, that looks very nice. I will likely get the gelcoat in theRAL colour nearest to that so that it looks good until I get it painted. ��
28 Jul 2019, 6:35pm
BMW dark green 307 looks great as well.
19 Aug 2019, 10:27pm
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[SIZE="6"][SIZE="7"]Owners Meeting[/SIZE][/SIZE]


[LEFT][SIZE="6"]Saturday September 7th

Lunch at The Pelican Inn[/SIZE][/LEFT]

[SIZE="4"]Froxfield, on the A4 between Hungerford & Marlborough

[url]www.pelicaninn.co.uk[/url]

We are welcome and booked from 11am with lunch at around 12.30pm

There are two spacious car parks, where we can have a drink and talk Tribute Cars.

Afterwards you / we can drive round a bit of Hampshire to the [/SIZE]

[SIZE="7"][SIZE="6"]Silk Mill at Whitchurch[/SIZE][/SIZE]

[SIZE="4"]for tea, overlooking the river Test, last orders 3.30pm.

[url]www.whitchurchsilkmill.org.uk[/url]

If you are interested the Pelican Inn also has a room or two overnight on the Friday and or Saturday. We are staying there Friday night.

Please let me know if you will attend or at least think about it.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="5"]REPLY to Kidge on his site

OR The Owners site

OR PM me

OR email [email]kidge.elder@btinternet.com[/email][/SIZE]
20 Aug 2019, 5:00pm
There’s an Ant Ansted built DB4 Zegato on eBay at mo.

Total animal but a little surprised with some of the gapping at nearly 100k - maybe out of the mould with no prep?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DB-4-Zagato-Race-car-replica-2017-4-2ltr/333301931332?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Daf9a6c11396448a6902c2fc113289002%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D333301931332%26itm%3D333301931332%26pg%3D2481888&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A082748c6-c36b-11e9-aaae-74dbd18001fe%7Cparentrq%3Aaff299f216c0a4b7b694c26ffffa66ff%7Ciid%3A1

Be interesting to see when and what it goes for - might sway Tribute over decision whether to go turn key or kit
20 Aug 2019, 5:07pm
How has it been registered as a "67" plate when it's using an engine that has been out of production for 30 years?
20 Aug 2019, 6:25pm
Jaguartvr wrote:
How has it been registered as a "67" plate when it's using an engine that has been out of production for 30 years?




I think Automirage are now registering their new builds on the date of the engine,

Not sure how it works but they have done a couple now.
20 Aug 2019, 8:43pm
Jaguartvr wrote:
How has it been registered as a "67" plate when it's using an engine that has been out of production for 30 years?

The advert said it was IVA'd in 2017, hence the current '67' plate.

It has been a while since I checked, but you used to be able to use 2 old parts in a new car and it was still classed as new for IVA.
( Think old V8 engines in old Cobra kits. )

Cheers, Paul. :)
21 Aug 2019, 1:20am
�� WOW! That’s amazing!!!

Damn damn damn. That’s an amazing car.
I’ve just sold one of my 911s and was about to buy a Caterham (but maybe I would be better off waiting) arrgghhh...
21 Aug 2019, 4:51am
How is it going to pass emissions if its 2017 reg?
22 Aug 2019, 2:30pm
It might be a close replica but I prefer the Tribute car by a mile.
26 Aug 2019, 2:20am
The twin fuel fillers are a nice idea.
One on the Z3gato could be fake, meaning you don’t need to try to swap sides etc.
23 Jan 2020, 9:32am
Filler caps

Munky, that is exactly what I am doing. The one on the LHS will be a dummy.
23 Jan 2020, 9:37am
Jack

Jack, As you don't do Facebook, you will not have seen these. Here are the latest photos of the buck in 1st coat of HBP. Chris should have it back, painted from the paint shop next week. We will put more pics up then.

23 Jan 2020, 9:55am
The car is looking really great Barber. Chris has pulled one out of the bag again !

The forward hinged bonnet is a new idea.

What's the plan with the rear number plate light ? The Lucas combined no plate light and reversing light was used on the "original" Zagato's on an extended plinth.

The convertible version is going to be a great car too, I've placed an order for one in advance !