filthy boy

Why thank you Mr Giggles. If you think this is bling you should see the rest of it. How come there is no "double flipoff" smilie on this board?????? FB PS Would have used a Lotus Elise but that is a heavy MF vehicle.

A couple of pictures from earlier today when we dropped the disco off for its cage work Sitting low because it's down on its bump stops. Also spotted this creation in the back of the shop FB

The height reduction is just down to the new roof. Sorry, no other clever tricks! FB

Jim The mud flaps are off being cross-drilled, got to save that weight! "Nothing to Filthy, Boy o boy it is impressive....." What do you mean?? FB

We are not in the moulding business, but we are entering the offroad vehicle business. We have something else in the pipeline that has taken a few more weekends! All this work was actually done by Butt Man and Robin, their real names. All the panels are custom moulds, grp / carbon / kevlar. Fully seam welded cab. Oh, and we started with a brand new bodyshell The rear will be trayback, linking into a cage. On 35" ET's and with a 2" lift the roofline is about 5.5" lower than a standard disco. Oh, and a fair bit lighter! FB PS I posted the pics because not only can he not take pics he couldn't post them either.

We needed something to do over the weekend!!!

One more.

Hopefully this will work!! Sorry about the poor picture quality. Panels are GRP with an inner layer of woven carbon and kevlar for strength and to reduce the risk of penetration in a roll. Rear bulkhead (not shown!) is aluminium. There are welded in inner steel pieces to reinstate the integrity of the body shell after removing the rear. FB PS the diagonals are just to stop the body twisting during the build

We have just chopped a disco in a different way and would like to post some pictures. Can anyone do me a favour and host them for me as I can't post them directly to here? Would be much appreciated. FB

There is a lot of use of the word "spaceframe" in this thread when what you are actually looking at is scaffolding on top of a chassis, either to act as a roll cage (Tomcat) or support the panels (Ibex). A spaceframe is something very different. Maybe an Ibex is more "Superleggera" like the old Aston Martins.