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« Reply #45 on: February 14, 2012, 09:07:32 am » |
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Regarding the Delta Wing, it has been noted that they are to use the AMR 1 chassis. As far as I am aware, two were built up and raced at Le Mans last year, and these two cars have been sold and delivered to Aston customers. There were also two unused chassis, one of them presumably going to Delta. However, with the news that Henri Pescarolo has bought 2 AMR 1 chassis to run in WEC this year, we are a chassis short. Either Henri has only bought one, not two as has been reported, or Delta have returned theirs, or never had one in the first place. Anybody any ideas?  Well the original plan was to sell six AMR-Ones, five were sold with the sixth under option the last i heard, before the project was canned. So if AMR built six tubs then it would make sense that two were built up as AMR-Ones, two went to Henri, and one went to DW, maybe the sixth tub was built up to an AMR-One for a customer or is being kept as a spare. |
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« Reply #46 on: February 14, 2012, 09:24:19 am » |
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One of Henri's people has posted on a different forum that six were built the two cars that raced went to private collectors, two went to the delta wing project and they have two
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« Reply #47 on: February 14, 2012, 06:35:09 pm » |
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missing tub in hall of shame next to mansell.place ready for delta wing thing.
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« Reply #48 on: February 14, 2012, 10:54:16 pm » |
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One of Henri's people has posted on a different forum that six were built the two cars that raced went to private collectors, two went to the delta wing project and they have two
My point was here that I know for a fact that only 4 chassis were built, and as I say, I know this as a fact. If 2 have gone to customers, and two have gone to Pescarolo, where does that leave Delta. I think it leaves them back in the workshop with a mock up of a pipe dream. |
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« Reply #49 on: February 15, 2012, 01:06:22 am » |
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You could be quite right. The AMR tub would have the front suspension mountings in the wrong place, and these tend to be metal bobbins rather than just a bolt hole. Didn't one of the Peugeots retire a year or two back, because it had pulled a bobbin. (Some tubs are built with extra bobbins, so you can fit different bits)
Several sources seem to think that Deltawing have a couple of tubs. Perhaps they were unfinished, or cobbled together for this pile of crap
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« Reply #50 on: February 15, 2012, 01:45:51 pm » |
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I get the impression that Henri has a complete AMR- One rather than just a tub. I read a quote somewhere where he said that they will keep the bits that worked such as the tub, suspension, tansmission and several key ancilliary parts and disgard the parts that didn't work such as the engine and bodywork.
That suggests he has a full car to play with. To be honest I can't see any speculating Aston owners wanting that ugly failure taking pride of place in their collections. I know the two AMRs that raced at LMhad already been sold to collectors prior to the event. My guess is that they stopped answering the phone once they realized what a lemon their new investment turned out to be.
So my guess is there were two complete cars and two tubs. One complete car is with Henri, one with a gutted investor and the two tubs are with Deltafarce.
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« Reply #51 on: February 16, 2012, 02:53:54 pm » |
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« Reply #52 on: February 17, 2012, 08:26:16 am » |
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Hope there is another pallet with the rest of it on.
His workshop must be a look like a junk yard, I hope for his sake he does not mix up parts of the various DIY projects he has on the go. I've done that in the past with airfix kits. not pretty.
Is the Dome a new car or the test mule that Toyota were reported to be using?
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« Reply #53 on: February 17, 2012, 11:32:21 am » |
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Yes, Toyota were using it to test the hybrid system drivetrain. Hope there is another pallet with the rest of it on.
His workshop must be a look like a junk yard, I hope for his sake he does not mix up parts of the various DIY projects he has on the go. I've done that in the past with airfix kits. not pretty.
Is the Dome a new car or the test mule that Toyota were reported to be using?
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« Reply #54 on: February 17, 2012, 12:14:58 pm » |
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Is it just me.... or does Sébastien Buemi have weird scary eyes?
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