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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Bob Purton on December 01, 2013, 03:05:47 pm
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Triad-3-wheeler-unstarted-kit-car-Very-very-rare-/251387891347?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a87e2ce93
I remember seeing these is Chris Reece's book.
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Yup, Mini based I think. Slightly eccentric styling.
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Yep Mini based with a chrome exhaust guard along the side as I recall.
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Chris Reece's book as recalled by bob . oddly i find that the project looks more attractive than the finished job , doesn't that exhaust guard look a little clumsy ? just a thought if something had to leave the garage and go under a tarpaulin surely i would choose to put the fibreglass shell outdoors and not the chassis ?
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True, but fibreglass can absorb water and then start de-laminating, if not done very skillfully. A friend had a Bond Equipe whose body went bubbly.
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Perhaps the wrong site too complain of a car with a bubbly body Marcus
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and yet they make boats and dinghy's out of it.
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Notice the windscreen - could fit a Bruetch???
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Bubbly bodies!
F/g boats and liquid tanks do have to be made carefully, ensuring the resin totally permeates and covers the glass.!
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Obviously where Mr.Bruetsch went wrong - my car was literally falling apart i.e. Top from bottom and floor from wheelarches . But we must assume this 1990's car would be waterproof Marcus . Cars that can't be used in the rain ?
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Yes, Jeans Tourette was also falling apart, I think they were still learning back then.
The guy who repaired Jeans reckoned they were not using enough resin.
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Notice the windscreen - could fit a Bruetch???
No its a flat screen.
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Thanks barry but nothing like what I need at all . Bob I shall say ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about Mr. Merkelts fibreglassing having the same problems as Herr Bruetsch's - not a word ;D. Yes. I presume the same , the main pieces were fine but were joined to each other by a one thickness bandage 3" wide and that had completely dried out - I think it was just the paint holding mine together !
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That's a good point, wind ups aside, I wonder if Mr Merkelt the grandson remembers who actually made the Tourette shells? I will ask and report back.
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I wonder if we could compare pics of jeans interior , pardon the phrase jean , with my Pfeil interior . Sorry we have hijacked but it happened naturally enough
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Its probably too late for that to be very useful now as the inside has been reinforced to hold it all together. I believe Rob also resin coated the whole insides of his ex car. I'm guessing Progress used the same people to make there tourette shells as they used to make there F/G scooter moldings. I wonder if the scooter historians may know something?
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Interestingly an article in the last Bond Info mag . It had been thought that all the fibreglass work had been carried out in house - there are many photo's . It has just been found that the Rochdale Sports Cars company in fact made some if not all of the first fibreglass wings and bonnets . Surprising in that the Bond factory records were thought to be pretty comprehensive !
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That's a good point, wind ups aside, I wonder if Mr Merkelt the grandson remembers who actually made the Tourette shells? I will ask and report back.
I got a reply from Paul Merkelt and he assures me that Carr Bros made the Tourette shells themselves in situ. I personally find that surprising!
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I've said it before bob but unless those actually involved are in sound mind any second hand accounts may not be of much use really . If we ask we can hardly complain about the reply though
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Who are you saying isnt sound in mind? I was only surprised because when Chris visited the premises he said there wasn't a great deal of room. But then again how much room do you need for such a small operation?