OK – it’s taken me 30 minutes to type the text – and then 2 hours to resize the photos; I followed LotusJoe’s instructions as posted on the 14th Jan 2016, and whilst admirably explicit, all I succeeded in doing was making the photo’s dimensionally smaller, they still however remained approx a 2.0MB file size each – I ended up using picresize.com, and just hope that has worked.
I notice my location on the forum just says “Shrewsbury” – sorry - this is in the UK.
Here are the photo’s of my refurbished TCS chassis, it was done by Spyder Cars, (
www.spydercars.co.uk). The photos before/after, I think are self-explanatory.
I personally opted to go this route, as opposed to buying a new chassis, as overall it was the most financially attractive option; I also liked the re-designed front section affording easier access. (I am also not equipped or skilled enough to take on such work myself.)
The original chassis was shot blasted, front box section removed and replaced in its entirety, heater pipes replaced and painted. (Note: Not powder coated – this was my choice.). All the structural/alignment work is obviously performed on a jig.
Here in the UK, the Europa is very well supported and assuming you had a deep pockets, it would by possible, (with the exception of some minor items), to build a Europa from scratch - I don’t have deep pockets and am financing this project by “making my life smaller” (This translates to getting rid of all the “stuff” I have amassed over the past 67 years.)
If I wanted to be pedantic, my only criticism would be that the replaced heater pipes have no tube beading at each end, (I will work a plan around this and therefore do not see it as a major issue)
Photo 7, is not my car, it is a photo of the upper and lower links fabricated by Spydecars and attached obviously to one of their refurbished chassis. I will be going this route also – when I sell some more “stuff” !!
