A Beta Spyder - Just a small project to keep me amused.....

[peteracs]

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[peteracs]

Hi All

The last post here was 2010 and I took the decision to move the restoration thread to the Betaboyz forum which on the face of it seemed more logical. However after 11 and half years the car is finally roadworthy and today was the first drive out for it since 2000. Just 15 miles (successful, thankfully), but a great milestone. A fair old journey for me as my first restoration, but overall a very enjoyable one. Hopefully will be with me at the Betameeta get together over the August bank holiday.

My thread on Betaboyz can be viewed here should you have any interest.

https://www.betaboyz.myzen.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1936.0

Peter

[Parisien]

Brilliant Peter, long slog but you got there!

P

[peteracs]

Hi Frank

Thanks, yes been an interesting journey and having the car on the Betaboyz stand was a nice end to it. All tucked up now until the weather improves.

I now have a new project which is an early Beta HPE which also was in need of saving, hopefully not an 11 year project as I may be too old to drive it by then! The good news is the lessons I learned on the Spider will be very useful on it. Currently stripping down to bare shell so the bodywork guy has just the body to contend with and hopefully will cut my costs down as it is rusty in all the normal places, though probably not as bad as the Spider was.

Peter