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Great stuff Ian, awesome work resizing those pics. This is really magic stuff! This is a really good thread.
Thanks Steve, it took a mate at work to point me in the right direction regarding cropping. I think that might be Fullers Escort in the 5th photo down. I have seen in other threads you have an interest in this car.
Awesome Fastback!!!...Great to see this car again....can't wait to see it running . This was always my favourite of the Breadvans.I have great memories of watching and listening to this winding up down the back straight at Wigram..yeee haarr !!!
wow ,fantastic favourite thread, hows the strut towers which appear to go when the body gets moderfied, the gearbox with the overdrive? ,is this shell seam welded ,with all that firewall gone an Anglia could get a wee bit flexable, im sure he must be passing the Ferrari,thanks Fastback great stuff
The strut towers are still high, you can see little "bubble" covers in the bonnet in the picture two above with the escort behind. I'll put a picture on tonight that shows the pipe strut brace that goes back to the firwewall, it's not very clear but the brace is quite substantial being made of 3/4 steam pipe. The body work is braced in places and has aditional welding although not seam welded entirely. The strut top mounts appear to be mk2 zephyr with shorter mk3 struts, I have renewed the chrome shafts and had the strut oil analysed and put the same type oil back in when they were rebuilt. I'll do some photos of the steering, I'm a bit concerned about using it as it's all welded and quite intricate.
Hi Fastback with that v8 sitting back partway into cabin ,how do you get your feet in there?My Anglia has a setback motor with offset clutch pedal and its tight
I'm wondering the same thing, I only have size 9's but there's room for only size 3's ha ha. The original roll cage was merely brazed to the side of the inner wall down from the A pillar, now there is a floor plate and a new roll cage tube to take up the place where my feet should be. It'll take a bit of thought to get around it.
Auto trans of course ha ha.
My car has a side rail that runs from half way up the main hoop,past the door, and bolt through plate to the top of the wheelwell ill send you a pic works as side impact and rollbar brace
photo of A frame strut brace. Had to lay it on it's side to get the size. Not the best photo but if you look hard you can just see it.
Steering and crossmember
The two angle iron pieces on the cross member were to stop forward movement of the engine under braking. I sent the picture to Ken Dickie and he wrote on back saying so.
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keep it coming please Fastback ,so what is the gearbox and does it run an overdrive,the crossmember with the pegs is interesting.is the motor solid mounted, or does it have rubber mounts, im wondering if the square plates with holes are engine mounts or does the steering rack run through there,sorry about all the question but im sure you are amazed at the enginering,have you converted the mastercylinder to dual circuit,to comply with COD here in Aus i was required to keep my Anglia as it was ,i could change the seat ,replace the harness ,but had to leave the rollcage as constucted,
I will never be able to put this car back to exactly as it was as a lot of the running gear went into the Victor Alec raced. I have made up an adjustable pedal box, Ken told me what master cylinders it had. The cross member has steering rack mountings that you are asking about. The rack is from a mini. The motor was rubber mounted hence the angle iron brackets. I can imagine all sorts of problems when this car is ready to go as there's all sorts of tossers around but there's got to be a place for it somewhere. I will certainly do my best to keep it accurate. These cars would have changed from race meeting to race meeting over the years they raced as indeed it did from Neil Doyles ownership to Alec Dickies. It's a shame the Custaxie is having trouble racing as there is such a lot of interest in it. I have a muncie m22 with Hurst shifter, I think the photo shows a separate reverse lever (I might be wrong).
Does anyone out there actually KNOW that there is a problem with the Custaxie, or is it just 'pit talk'. The last time I saw it racing was at the 'Evolution Motorsport Classic Speed Fest' at Teretonga on the 20th of February this year. We were down there with the Amco Mini and Angus had the pre65 Morris. He had done a deal with Robbie at Ruapuna that they would swap cars at Teretonga. In the event Robbie did not drive the Morris but Angus drove the Custaxie. I think Robbie wanted Angus's imput as to how the handling might be 'improved', and to this end the car seemed to be in a thousand bits after each race getting 'improved'. I'm not aware of any events since that meeting that the Custaxie would run in, but there may have been. Also at that meeting there was a very nice Ford Escort RS that was 'reputed' to have 300hp under the bonnet, and that it was also having problems with COD compliance. But again this could have been pit talk. I raced around with this guy throughout the weekend, and if that car had 300hp then I'm 'a monkeys uncle', as my old bus has only 106hp at the wheels. So fastback55, I'm sure you will put the car back to 'as near as possible' to how it was, and as you say, ALL race cars change from one year to the next so who's to say what is correct.
A couple of mine (so you'll have to excuse the quality)
Ruapuna March 1966 (Jim Mullins following)
and Wigram January 1969
IF the motor in the Victor was the same one from the Anglia it got cooked shortly after Gary Jenkins bought the Victor IIRC, I can check with Gary on that if you wish.... it was dry sumped in the manner that Alec did several other cars..used the OE pump as the pressure stage via a tube thru side of pan to bottom of tank & a belt driven scavenge pump-two stage IIRC
David..the photos are great..love seeing this stuff unearthed,
The top pic shows my fav configuration of this car, The headlight covers , organ pipe stack, rudimentary wheel flares etc
My understanding with the "Custaxie" is that it is not a restoration of an existing period race car (like the Anglia in this thread) but an attempt to reconstruct a car that no longer exists.Originally Posted by AMCO72
If it wants to run at MSNZ events with a COD it does so under Schedule CR and it has two choices - either as a "Replica" or as a "Retrospective Special". If wants to be called the Custaxie then it should be under the "Replica" regulations which state " ... means a car built with the intention of replicating a vehicle that existed in any one of the period classifications. The car must comply with the applicable articles of Schedule K as if it was an original vehicle". Essentially this means that a car is constructed today to replicate an actual period vehicle in the configuration that it ran in period.
From what I understand the "Custaxie" has not been built to replicate what it was in period and changes and "improvements" have been made so it is a different animal from what the real Custaxie was in period.
The option that is left for it is for it to be a "Retrospective Special" which is defined as " .... means a car built for racing events which by its design, silhouette and manufacture has created a vehicle that could have been first manufactured in a previous era ...". However, this doesn't allow the introduction of non-period bits, for example, 6 pot callipers (I'm not saying the "Custaxie" has these). Additionally, it couldn't be called the Custaxie because it doesn't replicate what the Custaxie was.
There are people spending the time replicating period race cars, warts and all and if the car doesn't exit then it can be called what it was called in period. However, if the car does exist (even in bits) then someone can't come along and replicate it and give it the identity of the period car. I bet fastback55 would not be too impressed if someone built up an Anglia from scratch and put "55" on it and called it the Doyle/Dickie Anglia.
It probably all seems a bit bureaucratic but the Custaxie was a great car and it would have been just as easy to build it essentially as it was rather than try and "improve" it into something it never was.
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