Hello Dave

Do you converse with our German friends at all?  if so, what is the best way?

  I would like to find out a bit more about the way Tom moulded his dashboard, it looks like he has done it with some sort of foam, but not sure if he made a plug for GRP. Also I rather like the side skirts that Jorg has fitted to his machine. Unfortunately my German is non existant (should have paid more attention at school !!! ) 

What do you think.

Cheers

Paul. 

I have never used Skype, i will have to set up an account and learn a bit about it first.  I think I will leave a message on Tom's wall and talk to him that way for the time being.

Hi Dave,

thx for your compliment.......  to much super7 driver are to arogant.... I am shure that this the movement for me to build a better car.  ;-)

:-))))   If you want to buy a car from me .......  in any case not the "Malaga" from Alexa  lol 

That car is her's 

best wishes

Tom

Hello Dave,

I saw the picture of the duttonforums UK and take a comment there. Nice study 

Tom

Hi Dave,

I am verry lucky to have two more friends in england  :-)))

If you see I am verry buisy in this time....  

Today I have buy a Scorpio 2.9  24V Cossworth 140000 Km :-)))

New Parts for a new Project ;-)

Kind regards for Sandra

Tom

Hi Dave, thanks for the welcome.  I've enjoyed your rebuild, story and the pictures are very useful.  I'm not officially a Dutton owner yet - I have the garage ready but nothing in it yet!  I'm looking for a project needing some work (I was hoping to avoid the complete rebuild you're doing at this stage) either a B type or S1 ideally.  It will have to need something doing as I can't afford a sorted one.

Thanks Dave, I'll try and avoid the really stupid questions!

Dave, I could see your figures were about right I just couldn't quite see how you'd arrived at them :-) Not sure about Newark yet as I'm on the reserve list for Lemans which is the same weekend. (missed Newark for the last 5 years for that reason) Agreed we should have tea and a bun sometime.

Some suprising bits on that site Dave,sutch as i can have as many rear foglights as i want (within a certain height) on the Sierra as its on a 72 plate!

Any news on Toms car Dave?

Any good to you Dave? http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=175954

Do you have any pictures of your Sierra?

Dave,

Also for you, you're allways welcome for a visit.

luc

South Yorkshire potholes strike again im afraid Dave, going out soon to find out just how cold it is, if its not too bad ill fit the new spring.

That has me mystified. That is not the advert that I bought it from in Feb this year is it, surely I didn't miss that? It was sold twice last year, maybe it was one of those. It is tantalising to think that mine 'should' have a hard top. Now I am even more upset :-)

Daryl didn't put you up to this did he? I still owe him a cup of tea and he's not going to let me forget it!

Well I never ... I wonder what happened to it. Also says 'new battery' but it was completely shagged when I went to pick it up, in Feb. The guy who had it in between only did 250 miles in it and half of those were just collecting it!

Turns out that he sold the hardtop soon after he got the car. Presumably he didn't have anywhere to store it and he probably didn't want it on the car because it leaked even more than the soft top. So it is out there somewhere. Maybe it was bought by someone who painted it red to fit it onto your new car! That'd be funny. Poor Daryl will hardly be able to breathe for laughing if that was the case!

PMs sent Dave.

This is the closest to a side photo I have

These are the best of the suspension at the moment

I think it must be a very late one chassis number is six thousand and something

I got a couple of better pics of the suspension this evening

Dave, Mine is registered as a 1974.

John, does it have to be an S1/2 Phaeton ?

Not personally. We once had contact per email concerning another Dutton. I'm not yet involved with the Dutton community in Germany, since I bought the car last month (and yet had no time to work on it - it's a shame). But from what I saw, the most Dutton owners in Germany live in the northern part.

Very good article Dave, Thank You. lol, I'll be thinking about the attempt to do it.

You are not alone I purchased my Leggy off Piston Heads as a rolling chassie and body, rear axle was tacked in with weld no springs  no engine, no gearbox, no loom, no seats or instruments. Still an ongoing project 4 years later but i ist now drivable on the drive way. Getting older does appear to have some thing to do with doing these stupid stunts.

I am very pleased with it Dave, it has more than enough grunt to use on road in order to put a smile on my face. It is also very driveable right across the rev range using all five gears.  

This is a vid of it on the dyno ......     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3VZiuiX6qk

Hi, thanks :-). I live very close to denmark, I'd love to see you car when you are here :-)

hi dave .my dutton has been stood 20 years so iv had a lot of work to do on it but i drove it for the first time at the weekend i hope to get a mot on it soon then have a good drive in it on the road and not just the tenfoot.