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Well i collected the new project today. Taken some pics but can someone tell me how to post them on here Car has come with some good history and bits but is about to become our new historic race car build. Colour is chosen and going to be Ecurie Ecosse blue which should look great with rose petal wheels. But boy she needs some work but its been in workshop an hour and we have started it already Ace.

andy


cant wait to see it, theres a bit of a grp mini based kit car thing going on in yorkshire at the mo!

must be the clean air or something!

acespeed72 wrote:Well i collected the new project today. Taken some pics but can someone tell me how to post them on here .

Try this Andy :


viewtopic.php?f=12&t=64

Then you'll be able to do this :



Easy peasy.

an excellent choice of colour!

If you want to be a real anorak, there was a very long thread on the Autosport Nostalgia forum to get exactly the right shade of Jaguar flag blue metalic - not that I'm convinced there was only ever one!

looking forward to following progress - I've always liked an Ogle

i wish i had your job Andy!!!! working on everyday mundane crap is so boring... is this the ogle that was on the old flea bay? glad to see your going to be putting it to good use! cant wait for some picys!

yes it is the Ogle off ebay i bought it on a second chance offer. Thanks for link to colour but lads keep changing my mind .
I will try and upload some pics later when i get chance . Pete whats the pic from?

I always change my mind on colour several times before cars get painter. Current plan for the Lotus is UDT Laystal green.

But then, maybe EE blue would be appropriate!

acespeed72 wrote: Pete whats the pic from?

It's John Handley's Fletcher Ogle from Nurburgring 1966. I had a quick Google and found some more here....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30218319@N06/3484362792/

Thanks Pete, did they race the Ogle in period ive been told that Ogle raced one but i havent seen evidence of that or pics. Its amazing how you can have your mind made up on a colour then that goes out of the window overnight. Its either Ecurie Ecosse blue or Dark Silver which was its original colour, i think either will look great with rosepetals

andy

that john handley racing ogle is owned by a bloke round here (who is called ogle, funnily enough!).

its apparently very original and he is very knowlegeable about it

is that an Ogle or Fletcher or a bit of both?

the photo of it at Silverstone on 1st Oct '66 has the Ogle front, but later it has the Fletcher.

I think the Guy that bought to rights (Mr Fletcher) bought the racer as well as the moulds so no doubt he modified the front of the racer, lifted the moulds from that, then made the subsequent cars with the modifed front. I think he anly made 2 or 3 cars though, did he not?

Yes the owner is called Ogle and I think from memory it had a Fletcher front added after the car was damaged ? Paul (who's got a Fletcher) knows more about it. Those Fletcher fronts are ugly as f*** though aren't they ?!!
*Runs for cover*

The light treatment, with the cut outs in the front panel, is very like the Fiore Trident (originally developed for TVR, but later put into production with a Big Heally Chassis I think???)

Don't know if it's as bad as you say, but it certainly wasn't an improvement

Make your own mind up, here's Paul Ogle's Fletcher Ogle...

http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/ogle/fletch.html

mmm.........

Oh dear ! Not my cup of tea !

Andy is your body been taken off and new floor added or has there been two on flea bay lately ?

Surf 1275 wrote:Make your own mind up, here's Paul Ogle's Fletcher Ogle...

http://www.minimarcos.org.uk/altpics/ogle/fletch.html

That is well and truly hideous

no our body and floor havent been apart and floor only needs minor welding we think. Its down to its bare bones now so we can see how it is all fixed. We are going to work on weight and strength as we restore body which may mean we seperate ours as fibreglass body needs a little work.When they were new they painted the metal section black then attached body which they then coloured so we are going down the same route with ours