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HAVE YOU GOT A FINISHED RON CHAMPION LOCOST ?
nick-yrk - 20/11/10 at 10:24 PM

Hi everyone ! I am looking for a person or people with a completely finished and up and running ron champion locost. I would like to be able to have a look at one to see how parts were assembled and the lay out in the engine bay etc . You can t get accurate detail from just photos. i was planning to go to a locost meet but there doesn t appear to be much happening at the moment.I know its a bad time of the year for the weather.I have got the parts i need to start building this winter and hoped to start soon and hopefully have it ready for the summer.I would be very grateful if anybody could help me out. I live near York and wondered if there was anybody local.


austin man - 20/11/10 at 10:29 PM

dont get too hung up on just looking at a Locost they are all pretty much the same so it wouldnt matter if you looked at Robin hoods, MK Indy's, Mac 1 etc


handyandy - 20/11/10 at 10:46 PM

Hi Nick, & welcome to the forum.

As you are not too far away, have a drive upto Hartlepool & pop in to see Saturn sports cars, tho the main focus of Saturn is the Haynes Roadster, which uses the sierra as a donor & slightly different chassis dimensions from the Ron Champion chassis but should give you some insight to parts layout etc.

cheers
andy


mookaloid - 20/11/10 at 10:57 PM

There's a good finished one in Knaresborough - I'm sure the owner will be along soon to offer to let you see it


andrew - 20/11/10 at 11:24 PM

ive got two you can have a nosey at , im not far from you


steve m - 20/11/10 at 11:47 PM

"just looking at a Locost they are all pretty much the same so it wouldnt matter if you looked at Robin hoods, MK Indy's, Mac 1 etc "

since when has a locost been similar to a robin hood ???


snapper - 21/11/10 at 06:46 AM

Since they started to make the Zero.........


RichardK - 21/11/10 at 09:44 AM

You are more than welcome to see my McSorely +442 which is the same as a book except its 4" wider &longer and 2" higher.

Send me a u2u if you want to, however the engine bay is in bits at the mo as Im replacing the engine over the winter.

Cheers

Rich


James - 21/11/10 at 01:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by nick-yrk
I have got the parts i need to start building this winter and hoped to start soon and hopefully have it ready for the summer.I would be very grateful if anybody could help me out. I live near York and wondered if there was anybody local.


Lol! Oh the naivety of youth!

I thought I'd be done in 6 months when I first cut metal. Couple of months later thought it'd be 18mths.

4 years later when I finished I knew how long these things *really* take!


Confused but excited. - 21/11/10 at 03:44 PM

quote:
Originally posted by James
quote:
Originally posted by nick-yrk
I have got the parts i need to start building this winter and hoped to start soon and hopefully have it ready for the summer.I would be very grateful if anybody could help me out. I live near York and wondered if there was anybody local.


Lol! Oh the naivety of youth!

I thought I'd be done in 6 months when I first cut metal. Couple of months later thought it'd be 18mths.

4 years later when I finished I knew how long these things *really* take!


Four years to complete!
A bit of a rush job then, eh James?