It’s getting exciting now. Looks beautiful and well done on your persistence, patience and commitment to doing it so well.
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Patrick's 1973 Martini RSR recreation Project
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Still masking up the car.
The stencils we made for the Martini logo are excellent, but the red stripe we wanted to mask did not line up. As we did before, we're using pictures of the restored R6 as reference, mainly because period picture are all of inferior quality. However, we've noticed numerous times now that R6 looked different at the Targa Florio than it does now.
When we compared our efforts against period pictures, it suddenly DOES line up and we seem to be doing it 'right'.
Makes you wonder what the bar really is for an award winning restoration of a $10m* car. Anyway, we're making progress but Jason and I are both very aware that the paint job back in the day did probably take only a few days, as the car just needed to be ready for the presentation to the press. So we know we're overdoing it, but once you're on that slope.... you keep sliding
* the $10m figure was mentioned in that Dutch 'Cars & Characters' clip of the R6 Martini RSR. If you haven't seen that yet, look it up on Youtube; it's a good 25min watch
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This is beautiful to witness!! Keep them coming. Kudos to all involvedTom Laube
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If it goes half as good as it looks ............... Look out !sigpicPhil Lack
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Progress on the car is still waaaaaay to slow.
And that's not Jason's fault; a house move & job promotion meant focus had to be elsewhere for a couple of weeks so there was not a lot of masking to be done.
We masked and painted the 'red/orange' bit on the front & rear bumpers (we decided on Tangerine in the end, although every photo/restoration seems to have something different) and Jason has completed the work on the new (now correct) ducktail. It fits perfectly and sits pretty in silver, until we start masking it for what I guess will be the hardest part of the whole paint job.
On the engine front, Spencer opened up the engine but there are still a few parts that needed to be ordered before we can start & complete the engine build.
I managed to score an uber-special set of magnesium cam housings that have the provision for the centre lube RSR camshafts that I bought about a year ago, and after a bit of a search I managed to conclude that the MFI fuel injection lines were actually metal and not flexible lines in the day, so I ordered them online as well.
The only things I still need to purchase (other than the stuff Spencer will source like pistons & cylinders) is the amber colored, glassfibre engine tins & two 3-pin CDIs. Think I will go to EB-motorsport for those engine shrouds and to Classic Retrofit for the CDIs, unless someone here has other suggestions?
Anyway, it is starting to look like a car, and I'm planning some masking/painting work on either ducktail or Martini door logos next week.
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