Longchamp so far

Jani,

I love the colour combo, very rare. And don't worry about them sills. Find a good sheetmetall man and you're good to go.

Mine only had few hundred hours of welding and body preparation in it so consider yourself lucky if this is the only metallwork to be done.

How is your Deauville Dutchie? Last photos you put out showed it almost ready. Been driving it yet?

Yes, nice colour.

I'm having problems uploading photo's of my car!

Any of you guys know which model Ford the Longchamp engine sump (oil pan) is from as I'd like to purchase a new one from Summit or whoever for my new engine build?

Thanks.

Phil
79 Longchamp GTS 3061

I don´t mind the color itself that much, but the combination of the interior and exterior colors is making me consider other options. And now Dutchie is hailing the combo!
Hey I like freaky seventies shit too, but I´m not so sure about this...

Phil,

I think the sump is from Mustang, but I´ll ask from my mechanic tomorrow.

Jani,

My deauville is driveable but not taxed end tested so very illegal to drive at this point.
It is in storage now since we rebuild end extended our house. Still some tidying up to do, such as painting most of the house top to bottom!

No driving this year but a nice winter project to look forward to.

Jani,

Try to find out which year/s Mustang.

I do believe it was the Cobrajet Mustang around 69/70 but I could be wrong.

Phil
79 Longchamp GTS 3061

Phil,

My mechanic said it looked just like "a normal 4V oil pan". He also said that 4v oil pans are different than 2v (baffels, etc.). He said that it is probably the same as in CJ mustangs of that period.

I´m pretty sure the pan is the same as in Panteras.

Summit do not seem to differentiate between 2V's & 4V's so all I can imagine is that the oil pans are the same.

I will go for a stock pan after I check I don't need clearance for my 6" Chevy rods as I'm building a 408 stroker.

Phil
79 Longchamp GTS 3061

My mechanic said also that you can´t get real 4v pans anymore(and that is why we are fixing mine). If I were you I´d ask the question from George in the engine forum.

Added some photos. No pattern parts used, that´s for sure... All the rusty parts have been relpaced. I still need to make/get made new bumpers, and the front air dam. then it´s off to the paint shop. I will probably stick with the current color, as I can´t make up my mind with what to replace it with, and due monetary reasons.

Engine and transmission should go back in within two weeks.

New photo with the engine and transmission back in. Also modifications on the front end in the spirit of Tjaarda´s original drawings.

Jani,

Where's the photo's?

What front end mod's???

Phil

Phil,

I added one to the gallery. It´s the 13th picture... I modified the body between the front grille and the lights so the car won´t look like it´s home made. It required also new mounting points for the bonnet hinges. If you have seen the original drawing of the preproduction brochure, the front end details were quite different.

Love the bondo sandwich picture.

My first Rapier had a similar, rusty sill, bondo and rusty sill mess. But that is a work of art!

Yes, that filler is something else.

I hope my car is built with a little less!

Would of been nice to have had more light with that photo as I cannot see the modifications you state.

While you have the empty engine bay how about relocating the battery to the trunk?

I'm intending to do this with a good gell cell.

Phil

The bondo pictures are from the parts we cut off from each side of the grille, so we could fabricate the mods I was planning (the sills themselves were waaay more rusty). We could not do it to the extent that it was in the early Tjaarda drawings, as there some structural parts behind them, but I´m fairly happy with the results. Have to get some better pictures, when the grille is back in the car.

Phil,

Relocating the battery makes sense, but at the moment my philosphy is to restore the car mechanically (with some exeptions inside the engine, for reliability, and for ´72 power levels). In the future I could see a conversion to manual, and lightening / upgrading the engine. At that stage, I´m sure the battery would travel too.

"Progress" report...

Alltough it looks like nothing has happened, there seems to light at the end of the tunnel. Of course it might be daylight or a train..

In any case this week should see the front suspension finished, fuel tanks installed, electrical gremlins banished, and interior put back together. Next week should be for the manufacture of the rear bridge exhaust sections, test run, and then to paint shop to make it semi-presentable.

I added a couple of photos: One detail shot, one general mayhem one.

The painter came to see the car and we came to a conclusion that the car was probably factory made with sloping front end treatment*, unlike any Longchamp I´ve ever seen.

*The hood sweeps lower towards the front with no sharp angle change about 15cm before the grille.

I´m not sure that makes sense to any of you, as my vocabulary is missing a word to describe it at the moment, but just check the front end photos, and see if you notice what I mean.

Please tell me you're going to get rid of that black crap inside the engine bay?

When I get around to stripping my car it will look like this:

http://www.surfaceprocessing.co.uk/index.html

Click on cars.

then use the drop-down menue to Pantera plus other nice cars.

Acid strip then electro-phoretic primering.

NO MORE RUST - EVER.

Phil