dickie b
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| posted on 19/7/11 at 08:42 PM |
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Phoenix tail onto a Fury tub
Hello all
I thought you folks that are into GRP may be interested in the conversion to mate a Phoenix tail onto a Fury - plus a bespoke mid-size bonnet bulge to
cover my k-series install.
Dont know how to do the linky thing, but here is the web address :
http://www.westgatecomposites.com/flash/fury/projectfisher.html
All work courtesy of Andy Westgate who is a real artist with the grp stuff. The join is invisible (if you ignore that large band of primer that is)
and the lines of the car are just perfect.
Car is being prepped for paint at mo.. (once I can decide what colour to paint it) so hope to post up some decent pics sometime this side of
christmas. Car hopefully hitting the road next summer (he says.. optimistically)
cheers
Richard
[Edited on 19/7/11 by dickie b]
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scudderfish
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| posted on 19/7/11 at 09:01 PM |
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That looks good!
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McLannahan
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| posted on 19/7/11 at 09:13 PM |
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That looks superb! A Furnix!
Look foward to seeing it painted up!
That rear body looks amazing too, it must have belonged to someone pretty special! 
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John Bonnett
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 06:28 AM |
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It does look good and really well done. This isn't the first Fury with a Phoenix back end. Tim Mann, well known in JPSCC circles had his car
converted many years ago after, I believe, a rear end collision. That too, looks very nice and was, maybe still is, his daily driver.
The silver car is Tim's
John
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probablyleon
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 06:39 AM |
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that looks fantastic!
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stevebubs
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 08:02 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by John Bonnett
It does look good and really well done. This isn't the first Fury with a Phoenix back end. Tim Mann, well known in JPSCC circles had his car
converted many years ago after, I believe, a rear end collision. That too, looks very nice and was, maybe still is, his daily driver.
The silver car is Tim's
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John,
Yes - Tim's was done after an accident but I think he brought the join much further forward on the body which resulted in quite a lot of
filler....don't see too much evidence of that on Richard's...
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matt_gsxr
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 08:46 AM |
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and another photo of the original Furinix
Stoneleigh 2007
confused me at the time as I was trying to decide whether to build a Fury or a Phoenix!
Looks like that chap has some real skill, it would have taken me a year to do that and still it would have developed those little cracks.
Matt
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dickie b
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| posted on 20/7/11 at 01:10 PM |
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Ha ! - It was seeing this very car at Stoneleigh years ago that kicked off the whole project in the first place. I spoke to Tim Mann (the owner) at
the time and he outlined the work involved.
Having bought a very bashed set of Phoenix racing bodywork (and collected a motley selection of used Fury bodywork.. thanks to you guys Steve,
Michael, Peter and many other Fury owners !) there was a lot of visual comparing of both 'ends' to see if the tail could be grafted on
and retain the cars lines.
Andy reckoned it would work.. and what you see if the process to stitch the two together.
From memory, Tim replaced the grp from the door shutlines backwards (to repair a rear end shunt) while mine was just the tail piece, aft of rear
arches.
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stevebubs
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| posted on 22/7/11 at 03:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by dickie b
Ha ! - It was seeing this very car at Stoneleigh years ago that kicked off the whole project in the first place. I spoke to Tim Mann (the owner) at
the time and he outlined the work involved.
Having bought a very bashed set of Phoenix racing bodywork (and collected a motley selection of used Fury bodywork.. thanks to you guys Steve,
Michael, Peter and many other Fury owners !) there was a lot of visual comparing of both 'ends' to see if the tail could be grafted on
and retain the cars lines.
Andy reckoned it would work.. and what you see if the process to stitch the two together.
From memory, Tim replaced the grp from the door shutlines backwards (to repair a rear end shunt) while mine was just the tail piece, aft of rear
arches.
Richard - I had the same conversation with him in May this year.... 
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