BUILD THREAD For 1964 Falcon Sprint to Monte Carlo Rallye FIA spec'

[Paul B]

Not at all Ken, I love a good laugh! and always appreciate your humour. We are all mates so that entitles us to have some man banter fun.
You're on for the trip bucket list for sure, your not escaping that easy!
Great video Too, thanks for that.
If I acid dipped the car that much it had ripply panels I would have to bog it up and that would defeat the exercise!

Steve,
I think there was also some Swiss cheesed 1969 cars, and much interior stripping, maybe cutting out weight also in areas not so easy to see? Imagine trying to weld a new roof onto the a thin steel acid dipped body, the welder would be blowing holes in the thin steel like there was no tomorrow.

John you are right 20kg could possibly be a make or break back then.

With my FIA Falcon build there is about 35Kg saving on all the Fiber panels vs steel, not so much on the doors. I guess with the FIA aluminum bumpers it may be another 10-15kg on top of that.They also had lightweight touring seats in 64' guess another 15kg there, the factory seats are heavy.Also maybe another 5-7 kg with Poly-carbonate windows. But the roll cage makes up for quite a lot. Back in 1964 these cars had no roll cage, as did many.

Cheers to all