WANTED Ford racing puma

[Ed]

Curious half-alcantara'd door cards in that one...besides the many other neglected items. Certainly never seen one that has had extreme exfoliation on the front wheel arches. Probably one to buy and break though.

[big boy al]

number 81 does look proper rough, the worst ive seen in pictures.

what the hell are them door cards all about????

Never noticed the door cards, how strange is that

I have seen a couple like that on the wheel arch's now, cheap respray I'm afraid


as In my experiance even the roughest of FRP's look good in pictures, That is a proper munter

[Ed]

MarkyMark wrote:

Never noticed the door cards, how strange is that

As you can see, it can be a murky world shopping around at the budget end of the FRP buying spectrum.

Are you finding it more difficult than you first imagined?

Ed wrote:

MarkyMark wrote:

Never noticed the door cards, how strange is that

As you can see, it can be a murky world shopping around at the budget end of the FRP buying spectrum.

Are you finding it more difficult than you first imagined?

Yep, when i first started looking and i didnt have the cash there seemed to be a couple about that looked good and were in my price range, now they seem to have jumped in price a bit and the ones in my budget are a bit ropey. FRP No50 is what started me off, i really wanted that one but by the time i got the money together it had sold. Gutted

Excuse my ignorance, but I thought the front arches shouldn't rust, I thought they were made from aluminum?

[Ed]

They won't rust, but they can develop powdery exfoliation - aluminium can still corrode. The item in question needs to be fairly neglected to get to this state though!

right just looked at another one, this one wasnt actually bad just needed to much spent on it to justify the price, next..........................

finally after veiwing another one yesterday and being messed about something chronic on another one we were due to go up and see today (another £15 on a HPI for nowt )


we bought one today

so search over,

incidently bought the total I have looked at to 7 before buying one !!!! gentleman (and ladies ) it's a minefield out there

[V4FRP]

Great news Glyn which one did you finally buy

I think it's Lee's one 441

yep # 441,

which bizarelly my mate bought brand new

new front brakes, new clutch, cambelt just done, full stainless exhaust, original LSD car and 59k with proper history all the way through, needs a nip n tuck here and there but it's a proper genuine straight car

happy days........................... sure Darren (dazzle) will shortly be along to introduce himself

[lisafrp]

Nice one

Mirror image of 144 too

lisafrp wrote:

Nice one

Mirror image of 144 too

Well yours is twice the car Wugsy is

[Ed]

Good work Glyn - I'm sure 441 will be a great car for Darren.

Well done, think im going to have to hang on a while and continue saving, 5Kish isnt gong to get me the type of FRP im looking for

MarkyMark wrote:

Well done, think im going to have to hang on a while and continue saving, 5Kish isnt gong to get me the type of FRP im looking for

not neccesarily,

that was Darrens budget as well you wont get perfect, but you should get "worth buying"

I paid considerably less then that for # 338 over a year ago

but I'm sure as you already now know theres some dross out there

Mogsmex wrote:

I have seen a couple like that on the wheel arch's now, cheap respray I'm afraid

capable of being a Ford Direct jobby then you want to see mine!