In the beginning- A Tale of Two Lemon's
so this is the longish and kinda boring (as there isn't anything really technical in here) but needs to be written to explain the "spend" as that is what lemon's is a lot about , cost restriction for (some sort of) parity.
This build sort of began back in about 2016, as I bought (saw the ad here on Xweb strangely enough) locally in Perth a series 1 X19 for $350 complete., but didn't start and had dud clutch hydraulics.
The problems I had with that build came down to two issues.
A) Starts, the class I was building for (CAMS 2B) doesn't have a lot of entrants locally, so they combine the classes with other sports cars, and i didn't really like the idea of being wheel to wheel with open wheeled formula clubman racers (1300cc no OHC engines). Plus because of limited numbers they didn't get a place at every meeting on the calender, so instead of 9 race meets a year, there would only be 6 for this class and at most three x 6 lap races at a meet, if you're lucky a 10 lap race, so I wasn't going to get a lot of track hours
B) Rollcage. for compliance with CAMS rules, the rollcage just won't fit to my liking, the two designs I submitted were rejected on technicalities (not due to being inadequate) as I wanted to put the roll cage behind the targa hoop, as ahead of it I feel there is insufficient helmet clearance, so CAMS and I couldn't agree, plus here in Australia rollcage certification and constructon must be performed by someone registered to do the work, and it COSTS, like 5k for a cage.
so the project languished until I heard about lemons in early 2020 - as I said it's quite new to my part of the world, and it tends to take a little while for things to head west. My home state of Western Australia , or W.A. for short we joke stands for "wait awhile"
The trouble was then, that the white S1 body was "too good" to cut up and turn into a race car. It turned out that the white series 1, while it had a crap paint job, underneath was virtulaly rust free... and I knew that this lemons build would require some bodywork chopping. (whereas the 2B class seriously restricts sheetmetal mods )
Enter stage right, the rusty series 1 shell that's being used. I knew this guy had this car stripped as a roller (I had to bring wheels and tyres to fit to it) and it still had the engine and trans in the back, $150 later and it was mine and that makes my lemons spend to this point of $500.
Now the white series 1 was a quite good complete car, so I was able to sell quite a few parts from it to help fund the project.
not a complete list (yet - I'll add to it) but these are some of the parts I've sold include;
S1 corner Bumperette / over rider / bracket set $450
front indicator / turn assemblies (pair) $250
1300 engine (short -was in really good internal condition, looking recently rebuilt) $600
Carburettor / air filter and manfold $150
targa top rubber stowage set $50
s1 front grille $200
rear grille $50
bonnet $400
boot lid $250
steering rack used $100
S1 seats $150 pair
stainless header tank $150
targa latches and rubbers $100
S1 engine cover plastic trim (was in perfect condition, but painted white) $100
S1 engine side grilles (pair) $100
The second rusty car also had a couple of parts that the previous owner left me
The 4/2 exhaust manifld and dual front pipe / muffler $100
steering rack used $100
That's $3300 of parts sold. and with $499 left over from the initial $999, that's $3799 lLemon's dollars in the kitty to spend.
and I have a spare s1 almost rust free shell for the next project - MAX/1.9 -
Maggiorato (enlarged)
Alleggerita (lightweight)
X /1.9 (capacity)
SteveC
that was pretty easy, but that's correct