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After months of waiting - P19 has finally arrived! Car was paid for in September - and we've had all sorts of fun and games with the shipping process.
Car is stored away from the workshop for now - as we won't get a chance to work on it until the current customer cars are cleared out.
I'll post some pictures on here over the next couple of days, but a quick look reveals that the car is made up of lots of parts for pilot 13 (the trim, etc has 'pilot 13' written on the back).
The car hasn't seen a road since 1985 - so when we do get around to restoring it - it'll be fun!
Regards
Darren
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Awesome! Is the condition better / worse than you expected Darren? And how long do you think restoration might take? (obviously about as long as a piece of string, but if you had to guess...)
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Restoration time? It'll be a while. Despite the obvious cosmetics (painted red, etc) the car has also sat unused in a barn for 25 odd years - so all fuel system, etc is likely to be dissolved!
With some £££££, I'd say maybe 6 months to do a proper restoration - but we have customer cars to complete first - so unlikely that we'll be in a position to touch #19 until later this year.
Cheers
Darren
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nice one chaps. I've just had another look at your site. you've got pictures up already. nice one.
I was aware you were getting p19 in, but where did you get it from, where was the barn?
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Put it on a trailer and bring it to Eurotec, it would be really interesting to see the 'before' stage, unless Chris already has it in bits!
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Hi Darren
According to articles there was a 50'000 mile test car which crashed, was this a Pilot and do you know which one?
Cheers
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Fantastic news Darren, and interesting that another Pilot car was 'recycled' into this one.
Looking forward to the updates as and when you get time to do the work - mebbe you
could do a WIP diary for the club mag like Julian and others have done with their restos?
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Hi all,
Quick answers to questions:
> Car was in a barn in California - not that far from where it was used for emissions testing. The owner before me had swapped it for a plane.
> The 50,000 mile pilot car was (we believe) pilot 23 or 24.
> I've done an emissions write up for the club magazine - I just need to update with a few pics, etc - then I'll send it over to Phil.
I'll post some pictures soon...
Darren
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Excellent, thanks Darren
Cheers,
Phil
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Did you guys get my email about possibly doing some photography on P19 / your place in general?
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PJ Grady (Europe) Wrote:Hi all,
Quick answers to questions:
>> The 50,000 mile pilot car was (we believe) pilot 23 or 24.
Darren
Is that RIA7123 that is in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum? Not sure of the Vin/Pilot No.
of that car though. Would make sense if it was one of those, as RIA7124 (ex Alistair McCann)
was Pilot 25.....
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There was another test car which crashed during the 50,000 mile test.
Apparently there were two of them.
