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jayporter's Miglia

frenchymiglia 26 Aug 2017, 11:28am
ok lancelot build one for me tel me you want monney to start the grille
regards
the crazy frenchy builder
deni 26 Aug 2017, 9:26pm
jayporter wrote:
Hi Deni, the outriggers are 300mm from the edge of the lip on the cross member (325mm overall) with a 100 x 60 x 4mm box 800mm long welded across the ends, it ends up just inside the body shell on mine, hope that helps.


Hi Jay,
Thank you mate, much appreciated.

Regards, Deni
lancelot link 27 Aug 2017, 4:27pm
deni wrote:
Hi Jay,
Thank you mate, much appreciated.

Regards, Deni


I'm doing some work preparing a Vitesse chassis to accept a Miglia body at present and can confirm that the rear outriggers need to be trimmed down to / or replaced with a section approx a foot long too ...I have also tied the two together with a piece of angle iron across the rear ..they are quite vulnerable in their standard format ...
jayporter 29 Aug 2017, 10:02am
Reasonably reluctantly and with some regret I've put the car up for sale this morning, life has a habit of getting in the way. cheers guys.
lancelot link 3 Sep 2017, 1:21pm
jayporter wrote:
Reasonably reluctantly and with some regret I've put the car up for sale this morning, life has a habit of getting in the way. cheers guys.


Seems to be creeping up quite nicely ....

The phrase ''Bespoke one off with custom shell'' made me smile .... Reminds me of my old mate Ricky Battistini who used to run Battistini's Custom Motorcycles before he emigrated to the States to initially work for Arlen Ness ..he did a range of bikes called the ''One of a kind series'' !! :icon_lol:
jayporter 12 Sep 2017, 11:18am
Cheers Paul, ebay screwed us really, the first ad had 4k+ views 400 watchers and 27 different bidders pushing it up nicely but then ebay received a complaint that we'd put "NOT FERRARI" in the title off some (insert expletive) and cancelled the auction then when we re-listed we did it wrong but hey ho. apparently its against ebay regs to put a brand name in the header if they didn't make it, which is crazy as there's 000's on ebay right now listed as ferraris, lambo's and lancia's that are exactly the same, kits. Its a bit annoying but what can you do, there's a few people emailing asking to come viewing so we'll see what happens.
davecymru 16 Sep 2017, 5:49am
Only just catching up on the forum and saw yuo've put the car up for sale. I'm really sorry to hear that, but totally understand that these things happen, so i wish you all the best with the sale and especially with the-bay-of-e and their interesting rules!

I was aware that Ferrari don't take kindly to knock-off's and do tend to occasionally chase and close replica auctions!
lancelot link 16 Sep 2017, 7:47am
Ebay have a team that flag up incorrect termanology in adverts as well ...it's not always a complaint , they do action a few removals themselves . I think you should re-list it going down a similar route to Towed ...maybe not so long !! but the route of 'Special build' Its no secret that the words 'S*mmio' and 'Miglia' can hold values back a bit sometimes ....