No life (a.k.a. DattoMaster) 
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Racecar? there's no cage that I can see.
one of his pics says it runs on street tyres except for that last pic above which he said were borrowed wheels and race tyres. so i guess the suspension isn't that highly developed, but that's only a guess without any info from the owner.
looks like stanza/200B front brakes.
the Fiat engine swap makes it illegal for IPRA (as does the bonnet scoop and giant front spoiler, and the flares are questionable), so it basically a sport sedan if you want to race it, unless you find events with road registered classes - if its still road registered?
is the engine swap engineered/mod plated?
It doesn't look like the front spoiler unbolts easily, but its a bit hard to say from the quality of the pics, so its going to be a very difficult thing to load on and off a trailer
it also appears to have a sunroof, which if you want to turn it into a race car is going to be a problem.
also looks like the bonnet pins are not installed in the same place either side of the bonnet, but that may be an optical illusion fromt he quality of the pic? and there's an ordinary panel gap on the gaurd to driver's door. what's the rest of the body like?
what's it worth? pretty hard to say without more info. but unfortunately its not worth much as a race car to me. And it would be an awkward road car for everyday use. Not quite sure where you'll find a buyer for it.
To me, looking to buy a car to turn into a race car, its only value is the fairly clean body as a starting point, but the sunroof even ruins its value for that. I wouldn't buy it for a rae car project just because of the sunroof = turret replacement.
but that aside, if I was to build it as a racecar, the engine would be turfed, spoiler, gaurds and bonnet would be turfed for IPRA legal items, and the roof replaced. then you're painting more than half the car, so you may as well change the kermit colour while you're at it. It needs a cage, engine, box, suspension and brakes...
So I guess you need to find someone who would want it as a road car. how much its worth to them depends on wether its engineered with the engine swap, and if that front spoiler comes off easily - I wouldn't want to drive it on the road with that big chunk of cop-bait hanging off the front and no bumper.
Posted on: 2007/4/10 9:26
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