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Congrats!

WCA, As Gaz said, you can buy blanks. Here's a link:
http://vehicles.vivastreet.co.uk/car-parts+pinchbeck-pe11/reliant-motors-ltd-tamworth--vin-plate-scimitar--robin--van-/35693201

Well done Andy, looks like we've set a new World record for the highest number of Sammio's registered in a day.

Twins. What a day. Congratulations, Andy.

Andy,

That's great to hear, as you know the opinion is different at my centre, but I'm sure we can get over that!

Also, Sheffield are saying they won't do the examination until the car has an MoT, and that this is the same for all centres. Clearly this was not the case for you! Can you clarify if your examiner said anything about this? I would like to get the inspection done ASAP to make sure I can register and put my mind at rest!

No, Sheffield have got it ALL wrong
The car can't actually have an MoT as it stands because it differs so much from the original and can't be tested as such (No Wipers etc.) The body has to be affixed to the unmodified chassis and the only thing the tester is interested in is that the VIN and engine numbers match the V5 and the rest of the running gear is as standard.
Sounds like Peterborough have got it right, as do Preston (Test carried out at Kirkham VOSA by DVLA staff due to parking space at their own office).

The rules on this are quite specific and the problem lies in the fact that some offices have never been involved with this type of re-build....in true civil servant style , if in doubt , err on the side of caution applies in these cases...ironically err is the beginning of the word error - and they are wrong !!

I am very lucky as I have a good relationship with my local office and actually liased with them in the early days of the kit to make sure we stayed within the guidlines they set out...my first Sammio didn't conform and I had to make changes and get re-inspected....

The inspection is to determine that the replacement body has been fitted without chassis modification...the test also checks vehicle i.d as this would be a sneaky way to ring a wrong'un....
We got confirmation from DVLA policy that the inspection was to be done when the body was fitted and not when the car was finished....
As Andy says , technically , the MOT centre cannot test a car that doesn't resemble its marque...a ruling brought in to deal with incorrectly registered kit cars , Hot Rods etc...
So the process has to be , body change ...inspection ...detail change....MOT.

Bournemouth follow these rules as advised and are now very familiar with the concept , so don't even query it....Petersfield , it appears , are the same , Preston , again quite happy....

Determining the originality of the chassis and running gear is actually very difficult on a completed car...a bare bones example tells the whole story much easier...

A job well done and another foot in the right direction! :-)

Congratulations Andy.

Is this the first Cordite re-body to be officially done?

The dark blue paint looks good in the daylight.

I can also see you have added a sunken battery box to the bulk head too.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of your build.

Good luck, Paul.

I think it may well be the first Cordite through the DVLA 'mill' but was as painless as the Spyder ones have been.

Two good deliveries today. Firstly, the long awaited V5C arrived for Vanessa so I can go ahead and get it MoT'd (About time too. Bournemouth were holding on to the paperwork for some obscure reason but once I had a chat with them, it went through in a couple of weeks). and the seats for Cordelia have arrived:



As you can see, they fit the standard Spyder/Cordite floor pans very nicely and Gaz is intending fitting them to his G46 demonstrator.

Gaz Davies found a source for them in the USA and has negotiated a good rate for them to Sammio so if anyone would like a pair ordered, email us at the [email]info@sammio.co.uk[/email] address and we can sort it out. They come in at £350 per pair including air shipping and I got clobbered £65 for VAT when they arrived (a couple of weeks from door to door). all in all, I reckon we got a nice period look for a good price!

Nice looking alloy seats. Are you going to have them trimmed, go with loose cushions or just plonk the plain old glutius maximus to the metal?

Looks really smart. The folded strip at the back, can you buy that or do you make it? And what was behind that lozenge shape? that you rivetted.

Do you mean the top edge of the aluminium? If so, I picked it up from 'M&M' interior furnishings at Donington but I believe it's available on line.

The oval panel gives access to the fuel tank sender and is secured by a couple of 4mm rivets as I don't think it's likely to be opened very often. The small rectangles behind the seats are there to neaten up the holes for the seat belt fixing rings.

As far as trimming the seats go, I'm just going to have a removable foam pad for a little comfort, probably covered in a blue material to match the belts.

What about these seats, i think i have shown the covered ones before. £325.



http://www.classic-jaguar-racing.co.uk

Nice, but at twice the price of the ones Gaz found which are £350 per PAIR I think they are priced for the replica brigade

Or you could buy a pair of these for £100 and spray them with aluminium paint...

[QUOTE=Mister Towed;35089]Or you could buy a pair of these for £100 and spray them with aluminium paint...
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The problem with aluminium paint is that it looks a lot like......er, paint.

The seats look as good as I had hoped Andy, very pleased with them.

The problem with aluminium paint is that it looks a lot like......er, paint.

The seats look as good as I had hoped Andy, very pleased with them.

Yep, point taken.

So, are you going to have them fully trimmed in leather?

No not for me. Im thinking of just a small padded area for under my arse, maybe red to match the car with diamond cross stitching. Possibly another one for my lower back but will see how it turns out.

Erm, that was supposed to be an ironic question. Like, you've spent three hundred odd quid on some aluminium bomber seats and you're going to fully encase them in leather. As if...

They do look great though. I'm jealous as. If my budget stretched that far I'd go for custom ally seats myself, but the elastic in my budget reached its point of no return long ago.

Sorry, its been a long day. Driving almost 1000 miles in the last 2 days to collect and deliver a G46 kit has left my brain like mush.....even more so than usual!

No problem Gaz. A G46 you say? What's a G46? Never seen one of those, well, not a finished one anyway... eep:

You are right Mr T, its taken far too long to get one finished, much like the car in your garage

In all seriousness, this will change very soon. Since I took over the G46 project there are 3 more kits now being built and my car is progressing very nicely thanks to Gary and Mike. Fingers crossed, it will be ready for Exeter kit car show but if not it will be painted and looking good even if its not on the road.

OOPS. Sorry Gaz, I forgot you'd taken the G46 project on. I didn't mean to insult your pride'n'joy, far from it. I'd love to see one finished and painted, I guess they just take more work than the simple Spyder. Even so, I can't believe it's been so long and nobody's got one road ready - Gary J had the original G46 body almost finished in his workshop when I collected my kit way back in July '11. Perhaps he should have donated the first body out of the mould to that French chappy, what was his name now? Patoune, that's right, who got a Spyder from pile of parts to road going racer in a week...

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