Recent content by dickyb

Yep, it’s a limited market but also a very limited supply. If the seller isn’t desperate to sell and someone tells him it’s too expensive, he always has the retort of “Find a cheaper one then”

Primatist decals are present on the first one, zoom in on photograph 8. Yes steering wheel is easily addressed but gear knob not so easy, you’d have to find a standard 6 speed gearknob then use it as a pattern to make one from the correct burr maple as opposed to the usual rosewood or...

This one is a 2 litre so it’s rated at 220bhp, only the non-cat 2.8 18v and all 24v 2 litre cars (no non-cat version) were rated at 250bhp. That particular car is quite unusual in that it’s a later car with the Marcello Gandini styling (often known as a series 2 or a “restyling”) but only has...

Your biggest challenge would be finding a decent bodyshop, I have yet to find one that can do a decent job and I have tried many. If you wanted it done properly it would have to be a bare metal repaint, any bodyshop that values its reputation wouldn’t trust what’s under the existing paint...

Here's a period photo for you Nayf, taken in around 2001

many thanks, they look really good

were they large like the originals and covered the entire centre of the wheel, hiding the wheelbolts, or were they just small caps to cover the centre bore hole leaving the wheel bolts exposed?

Do you have a link for the centre caps please?

All 4 wheel centre caps are missing (and they’re nla)

Likely to be a DVLA error, they’re not renowned for accurate records and I know a lot of Biturbo era cars that are registered incorrectly including a Maserati “Quattro”, a “Quadtroporte”, a white Racing (they were only available in black or red) etc etc. only 2 UK Hybrid Cups were built, one...

Yes all of that is correct, I remember now that the suspension was stuck in position 2 and that the filler cap key was snapped. The other thing that concerned me when I saw it was that it was on budget tyres, always an alarm bell for me. As you say, apart from potential bodywork issues there...

No, it was the original engine that blew at about 80000 miles, and was replaced with a brand new Open Cup block. I haven’t heard anything about the suspension being changed but the only Cup specific aspect to the suspension would be the Eibach springs, otherwise the suspension is identical to...

The story goes that the second owner had previously been into modified Japanese cars and had owned a heavily modified Supra beforehand, but then wanted something different. The actual events seem to be lost in the mists of time but as far as I can gather, the second owner considered to car to...

*0202 is one of only 2 UK Cups in Grigio Vulcano (the other is *0185) and has been off the road for a couple of years, last MOT expired in August 2020

Unfortunately Mike is incorrect, there were only two Hybrid Cups built for the UK before the factory agreed to make 25 genuine 2 litre cars for the UK. One of these Hybrid Cups was Blu Spaziale, the other was silver (chassis *0164 and *0165 respectively). Chassis *0165 was written off. The...