Avoneer
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| posted on 20/11/04 at 09:48 PM |
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Half size doors / screens
Hi,
Anyone have any opinions / ideas / suggestions as to why I should fit or not fit some half size side door things to my Avon?
Half size because I only have an aero screen and they will meet at the top corner of the aero screen.
Cheers,
Pat...
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 20/11/04 at 10:56 PM |
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Would there be any point in half size doors?
Cant imagine they'd keep the wind off ?!??!?
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Avoneer
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| posted on 20/11/04 at 11:02 PM |
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Seen a lot on Cateringvans - especially racing ones.
Just a winter project thought I was having.
Won't they make the car more cosey?
Pat...
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Avoneer
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| posted on 20/11/04 at 11:05 PM |
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Then again, might just be better with the full tonneau cover I have just bought?
Pat...
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krlthms
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| posted on 21/11/04 at 12:01 AM |
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Pat,
Look at the pictures of the very sexy yellow RCB 77 in this site:
http://www.rcb7.de/galerie-2/index.php
I think the half doors llok great; give it that aggressive wedge look. The might also be practical in increasing the saftey of the occupants! 
Cheers
Karl
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midlifecrisis
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| posted on 21/11/04 at 09:48 AM |
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Hmmmm ,that yellow seven does look good ,but a lot of shapes tend to look ok with the right colour . Maybe not in other colours though? P'raps
make some from cardboard and spray them in body colour ,stand back and squint at them to get the rough idea of what they look like?Just my two
penn' oth ! ROD
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Peteff
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| posted on 21/11/04 at 11:19 AM |
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Must be a matter of taste...
I think that looks naff, like it's trying to be something else, Cal look hot rod or something. Seems as if he built the car and decided he
didn't want that type of car after all. It won't be long before someone leans on the door and rips the scuttle off. Stick with your
tonneau cover and just fasten half of it when you are on your own.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 21/11/04 at 12:33 PM |
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If you're feeling brave, advertise a set of half doors for sale over on blatchat and wait for the response. I
guarantee you will have them 'sold' ( not that they actually exist of course ) within minutes with another list of drooling would be
buyers clamouring to get second chance on them.
They really need to get out more...
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midlifecrisis
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| posted on 21/11/04 at 02:14 PM |
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With my roots in hot rodding I s'pose I would like it then!
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krlthms
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| posted on 21/11/04 at 10:07 PM |
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Good point about the colour, although there are a few other colours (the sexy carbon fibre blue one for example). As for the hot rod looks, I
don't think so. It is a matter of scale. If you look at other pics of this car you see its rop barely reachs knee height , so I would not
imagine that the resemblence to hot rod would carry into real life. It may more likely resemble a wedge of gauda cheese! A very scary wedge of cheese
in your rear mirror.
KT
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Jeffers_S13
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| posted on 22/11/04 at 12:56 PM |
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Wow some of those look truely awesome, very 'custom'. The detail on some of them is just amazing.
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andyps
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| posted on 22/11/04 at 01:15 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Avoneer
Then again, might just be better with the full tonneau cover I have just bought?
Pat...
That will make the car more cosey - just gives you a bad back fitting underneath it, and visibility isn't so good
I think the half doors idea is a good one, and if used on racing are likely to be there to help with aerodynamics a bit, which may reduce the
turbulence inside the car.
Andy
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Kitlooney1000
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| posted on 22/11/04 at 09:35 PM |
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The top spec RCB77 is only 38,000 euros,
What a bargain.
I do like the doors, there is one on that site where the doors dont open, it is actually the body work. ok if your tall.
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dr-fastlane
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| posted on 29/11/04 at 06:41 PM |
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This fellow has made fine looking doors.
http://www.cr-modelltechnik.de/bgstart.htm
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Jeffers_S13
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 08:05 AM |
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Bloomin eck, talk about Mr chop and change !
That is a superb website, if only I could read German, bit of a pain copying it to google, but its excellent how he kind of over looks the build and
concentrates more on what he did to modify the car.
Thanks for the link !
James
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Kissy
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| posted on 30/11/04 at 01:25 PM |
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Doors
FWIW - I had a wide body F27 and side screens/doors made a huge difference, especially at speed, I found my sinuses were no longer being permanently
pummelled. I made a pair of Perspex deflector wings (bit Cobra-esque), which helped a huge amount. Beware of the restriction on your elbows whatever
you make!
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