21-04-2020, 01:23 PM
Having built both a GE Brooklands rep and an Ulster rep, I will add my two-penny worth.
As a competent but basically amateurish woodworker, I made the frame for my Brooklands in a week. If you have a jig (in my case an old door with some timber uprights to bend the body sides round) and the templates for the plywood, it is really quite straightforward.
That is where the easy bit ends.
Producing a good finished Brooklands (mine wasn't finished as I would have liked) takes about three times the work needed to make a good Ulster rep. There is more work producing the axle fairings, front apron and spare wheel cover than making an Ulster b0dy tub.
Tom Abernethy's lovely Brooklands looked better in my opinion when he had it. The example now owned by Steve Hodgson which was at Guildtown last year is how a Brooklands should look.
The Brooklands is an iconic model and I have no doubt that it will sell for somewhere near the price. Eventually most of the replica Brooklands will end up highly polished in foreign garages.
Good to know that there is one in use somewhere near Melton Mowbray!
As a competent but basically amateurish woodworker, I made the frame for my Brooklands in a week. If you have a jig (in my case an old door with some timber uprights to bend the body sides round) and the templates for the plywood, it is really quite straightforward.
That is where the easy bit ends.
Producing a good finished Brooklands (mine wasn't finished as I would have liked) takes about three times the work needed to make a good Ulster rep. There is more work producing the axle fairings, front apron and spare wheel cover than making an Ulster b0dy tub.
Tom Abernethy's lovely Brooklands looked better in my opinion when he had it. The example now owned by Steve Hodgson which was at Guildtown last year is how a Brooklands should look.
The Brooklands is an iconic model and I have no doubt that it will sell for somewhere near the price. Eventually most of the replica Brooklands will end up highly polished in foreign garages.
Good to know that there is one in use somewhere near Melton Mowbray!