nick-yrk
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 posted on 20/11/10 at 10:24 PM |
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HAVE YOU GOT A FINISHED RON CHAMPION LOCOST ?
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.
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austin man
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| posted on 20/11/10 at 10:29 PM |
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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
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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handyandy
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| posted on 20/11/10 at 10:46 PM |
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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
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mookaloid
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| posted on 20/11/10 at 10:57 PM |
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There's a good finished one in Knaresborough - I'm sure the owner will be along soon to offer to let you see it 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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andrew
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| posted on 20/11/10 at 11:24 PM |
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ive got two you can have a nosey at , im not far from you
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steve m
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| posted on 20/11/10 at 11:47 PM |
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"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
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since when has a locost been similar to a robin hood ???
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snapper
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| posted on 21/11/10 at 06:46 AM |
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Since they started to make the Zero.........
I eat to survive
I drink to forget
I breath to pi55 my ex wife off (and now my ex partner)
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RichardK
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| posted on 21/11/10 at 09:44 AM |
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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
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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James
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| posted on 21/11/10 at 01:49 PM |
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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!
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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses, behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
- Muhammad Ali
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 21/11/10 at 03:44 PM |
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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?
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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