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Lots of photos about the interior please. I will be doing mine soon too. Please share any ideas, including the ones you reject and any tips or tricks you discover.
Will do, im picking it up tomorow from the garage after geting it insured today. £168 fully comp with adrian flux. not bad at all!. ive never really seen insurance under a grand yet with a the cars ive had and bein under 25. turned 25 last month so can now officially have 'kit car insurance'!
as reguards to interior, ive stripped my center console section out and plan on cutting the gear stick as low as possible, drilling and tapping it and putting a nice long and thin rod in with a gear nob on top and geting a chrome 'H' gate mate up.
ive striped all the heating and aircon controlls etc out and just have the dial switch that puts on hot air onto the windscreen and foot well.
the air vents on the dash will be fibreglassed in and ive relocated my cd player in the glove box. il b messing about with it over the next few weeks but ive just moved house this weekend and my new house doesnt have a garage! school boy error realy!
Had a drive a round today, got a lot off looks, points and pictures taken. I also got pulled over by a nice police man doing a 'routine check' load off bollocks i know but i had to play along as it has a black n silver rear number plate! he was more interested in how id built the car than to give me a ticket!
I thought it was the race organisation that banned its members from displaying their race numbers when not competing rather than plod. In the olden days the local plod were normally involved in helping events so they nicked people with numbers to be safe.
The idea was that if a racer committed an offence on the road they would be penalised in the event but Joe Public would be left alone, If Joe Public had race numbers showing when they got nicked then some poor random on the competition might get penalised.
Sort of an urban myth about being illegal as I understand but perhaps MrTowed (our friendly traffic plod) can clarify
The police man didnt seem bothed about the racing numbers and didnt notice the illegal plate on the back. I think I got pulled as im a young lad driving around in Hartlepool in what he thought was a car worth mega money. (thers not many ferraris in hartlepool! like not even 1!)
I dont think he was a traffic bobby just more of a nosey 1!
Chris, that was my inspiration to build it!
Its seems wierd looking at this
to this
Horn fitting didnt go as planned as it was about 4mm out! after modifying the origional horn and sticker flexing the new new 'ferr@ri' horn into the holder. im now waiting for it to set and will fit tomorow. I also had a mess about with the interior and added some expanding foam in the void and started filling in the rear parcel shelf with kingspan foam ready to carpet....
ColourTech in Stockton, id recomend their work to anyone. he built that ford rs2000 that tribute took the moulds from and build a ferrari 360 replica for me. top jobs and perfect finnish all the time.
Hi Danny, loving the car. I'm keeping a mental note of the companies you've used locally as I'm from just up the road from you in Horden, although I live in Selby now.
Any chance of you spilling the beans on the price of the local work done, especially the paint?
It was close to the £2k mark but that was a lot of prep work and a repair on the rear as it was damaged on delivery . and if it was a change of colour.
Only my opinion but id say it was worth every penny (obviously!) ive seen a few kit cars where lads have spent a long time working on them then to be spoilt with a bad spray job,
to be honnest i could of had it done for half that but i know robs work is spon on. i used to buy 'bumped' cars at hbc autions in teeside and repair them to sell on and they done all the work for me so never bothered going anywhere else.
i also bought a head unit and a 'holder' he holder us desingd for old minis/land rovers etc that didnt come with head units, its just like a housing...
going to mount it on the rear shelf along with the window buttons, heating controls and hazzards
il be a few hours with the soldering iron now exting the cables.....
Just spent an hour at my pals printing shop and come up with these...
They are credit card size to be stuck onto a bit of tin metal.
I printed 10 ferr@ri 1s and 10 with the tribute logo on.
also printed a few of these...
printed 10 of them so 5 sets (4 left!)
if anyone wants any, pm me your adress and il send you them!
Danny - Good luck with your interior, I'm sure it will match the high standard of the outside.
Just one thought about this statement...
Danny_HUFC wrote:
... going to mount it on the rear shelf along with the window buttons, heating controls and hazzards ...
Would turning the hazzards on while on the move (e.g. running into stationary traffic on the motorway) be a bit tricky if you have to look/reach behind you for the switch?
I'm sure you have thought of this, but figured now was the time to mention it.
i may need to re-think the hazards! i was justgoing for the 'minimal' look on the dash but now thinking about it may need 2 find a place for the hazard button!,
