The creation of a racing car - the full story of turning a tatty road car
into a competitive modified racing car will be shown here soon
5th January 2003
The donor for our 2003 racing car - a slightly tired but
tidy Alfa Romeo 33 S 16 valve.
11h January 2003
Stripping begins with removal of the doors and interior.
18th January 2003
The whole interior is gone, the wiring will be the last
thing to come out once the engine bay has been cleared.
The rear suspension and fuel tank are removed.
The bumpers, bonnet, tailgate and front wings are all
removed.
The front suspension is dismantled.
The engine is stripped of its pipes, wiring and ancillaries.
22nd January 2003
The engine, gearbox and wiring are removed leaving us with
an almost completely bare bodyshell.
There are still some things to remove - numerous screws,
clips and other fasteners, not to mention the sound-deadening and
underseal materials.
25th January 2003
Interior sound-deadening material was removed first...
...then the bodyshell was rolled gently onto its side,
supported on carpet covered blocks of wood, to give access for us to
remove all the underseal.
At about this point we had to make a difficult
decision... the body was so rotten in the sills and floor that we either
had to do a lot of patching-up or scrap this 'shell in favour of something
more solid.
We went to the pub for lunch where we then decided to scrap this project and start again.
