I just had a pic sent to me by a mate in Qld. Apparently this FC convertible is a new car on the scene around the Brisbane area. Looks to have all the cool vert features nailed. Just a few finishing touches to go.
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y183/customfc5/fcvertw.jpg)
Regards
Alex
I wonder how that got through a engineers report . Side impact /roll over ect? Looks good. I 'll have to keep an eye out for it.
Brad.
Hi all,
The owners of this car are recent new members of the Qld club. The car has been in Brisbane for approx 7 years and was brought over from WA. Apparently the car was converted in Victoria and also registered in WA.
Apparently there were no problems with registering in Qld.
Michael
There's two of these and I'm not exactly sure which one this is.
One of them belongs to Simon P.. who used to be a member of the NSW Club, before moving up to Qld.
It looked like this when he was a member of our club:
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/ret56fe/other/1990.jpg)
When it was finished it looked like this:
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/ret56fe/other/2005.jpg)
(This car was featured in a "Blast from the Past" segment in Sideplate last year.)
As I mentioned, there are two of them. Here they are together (what a great photo - did I mention Simon is a professional photographer? ;D)
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c296/ret56fe/other/fc-wedding.jpg)
cheers
RET
Engineering requirements are fairly liberal for convertibles as long as they are not classed as an "individually constructed" car. Since the precedent exists that convertibles of the era do not have roll over protection, then it is not required for a converted vehicle.
Side impact bars are limited to a brace inside the door similar to modern cars.
An "individually constructed" car is one where there is no base structure from an existing vehicle. Examples are Cobra kit cars and the like - these vehicles must meet all current ADR's. Another example is a hot rod made from a fibreglass body and repro rails. This is why a lot of effort goes into convincing an engineer that your hot rod's rails are genuine (pretty hard to convince an engineer that the fibreglass body is real!)
Ken