Finished my Outlaw Speedster

This is a beautiful piece of rolling art ...Nicely done !

Very Nice Marcel!  Beautiful colors.

Looks like tons of fun!

Looks quickie and tricky even while sitting still...

You gotta love the 5-speed transmission from a Porsche 914!

Yes.  That looks a lot like one of Rod's builds - I know the one you mean.

Wow!  There's an awful lot to like about that one.

nice job...dont they have the steering wheel on right in Netherlands.

Nicely Done!   Congrats

I LOVE it!

nice looking car, gonna be a lot of fun with that running gear

40 hours to build a Speedster divided by 8 year = 5 hours per year?

Nicely done.

I echo what everybody else has said. You must be very pleased with the outcome on your car. Congratulations!!!!!

Great looking car, @Marcel! It should be loads of fun.

That is outstanding! Super nice!

Outstanding!

Very correctly done.

Gorgeous!
-=theron

This is a beautiful car! Strong work!

Tell me about that shifter please! What’s the neon green device for?

@TreyG posted:

Tell me about that shifter please! What’s the neon green device for?

That's a reverse lockout. Pretty slick it what it is.

Correct, it the reverse lockout. It has a dogleg shifting pattern, so reverse is where you expect 1st gear to be. There are spring in the shifter to prevent going into reverse, but it is also preventing you to go into 1st. I figured it would then still be very possible to put it inadvertently into reverse at the traffic light, hence I 3D printed the green lever.

i do want to change the shifter, as the springs are making it difficult to put in first gear from my seating position. Takes quite some force.

@Marcel posted:

i do want to change the shifter, as the springs are making it difficult to put in first gear from my seating position. Takes quite some force.

I once owned a car with a transmission like that. Required an "Irish shift" (2-1) to easily shift to first. At about 2-3 mph it slipped into first like butter. Can't remember which one. Fiat 850? Austin America? Alfetta GT?  

I'm really not a Speedster guy, but this one I REALLY like! Beautiful job, Marcel.

Beautiful job. Whose center mount shroud did you use?

My first car was a 9-year-old 914.   The shift knob didn't have the shift pattern on it.    I drove that thing for a month before I realized I was starting out in 2nd gear every time!

It had plenty of torque, I just though it had a long first gear, LOL!

Nice, Marcel!

Good job!.....lots of love, satisfaction, and years of enjoyment will be derived from you new creation.

@Marcel I honestly can't add anything to all of the comments above.  Well thought out and beautifully executed build of a one-of-a-kind outlaw racer.  I love it!

Your future plans for it are just as impressive.

And @barncobob to answer your question, all European countries drive on the right.  

Only the UK and her colonies (not all) drive on the left, so near Europe it's UK/Scotland, Ireland, Malta and Cyprus.

Previous posts x2.  Marcel, you have heavy duty skills, what a cool ride!  Thanks for sharing.

Thanks all for the kind words! Much appreciated!

Here are some pictures of the build...

Body and basic subframe was supplied by 356-speedster.nl. Very happy with quality and support. I requested to have the inside of the body covered in woven glassfibre, instead of the usual chopped strand mat. Makes it look and feel much nicer.

The fusebox hides behind the passenger side of the dash, and rotates down for easy access.

I inserted the rear seats of a Coupe, to make the rear a bit more interesting to look at. But with my GRP tonneau you actually don't see it anymore.... (but I know it is there!)

The seats are from Donkervoort: really nice figure-hugging seats.

I located a “Rod Emory” type of GRP tonneau. In the end I didn't use it (it will be for sale), but I used it to create a mould for the tonneau and streamline hump you now see on my car.

Cooling shroud was made by myself from a mould I bought somewhere (I believe it came from Estonia), and I added vanes to split and direct the airflow. I'm working on a new design which I intend to make this summer.

I made the headers myself (plan to remake them in stainless). Subframe was heavily modified to increase stiffness of rear section (no butt-sag on my car!) and added supports to the front as well (incorporates towing eye.

Beautiful work, @Marcel.

Wow @Marcel, fantastic looking ride and awesome skills mate. Thanks for sharing! Wishing you many, many years of fun in that beauty!!

Excellent Marcel !  You certainly achieved your goal. Hopefully you will show it....Bruce

Beautiful build, excellent craftsmanship! 

@Marcel

DANG! Marcel, you certainly have some mad fabricating skills. Thanks for sharing those pics of your build, very impressive!

@Marcel, what a beautiful job! I love your fabrication talent. What an inspiration.

Those are great pics, thanks for sharing them.

Did your body come shaped for those back seats or was that a custom fabrication?

No, I inserted a Coupe rear seat section