Robin Hood Lightweight.

[Guest v8cortina]

Hi,

I am seriously considering buying the new Robin Hood Lightweight to build with my son. I have already purchased and stripped the donor car, a 1989 Sierra 2.0 GL. Anyone out there bought one who can advise me if they are happy with it?

Any advise comments would be grateful.

Many Thanks.

Thierry

[Guest salty_monk]

Not many sold yet... one guy has picked his up but not a lot of feedback so far, it's early days for that design as yet...

[peter_m7uk]

I collected mine the other week, but haven't started building it yet

 

On first seeing the aluminium supplied for the chassis, I did think it looked

kind of thin, but having no experience in engineering specification of metal

components, I suppose that's just my gut reaction. After watching

some of the build DVDs, I did start to warm to the idea of the method of chassis

construction and I'm now feeling that it's all gonna be ok

 

They supply you with two pieces of 8' by 4' chip board to build the chassis on.

One piece is used whole and the other you cut up and build a bit of a jig. Nothing

complicated, but you do have to have a means to get nice straight cuts into an

awkwardly large piece of board!

 

I think the components still need work doing on them to tidy up all of the burred

edges, but it's all there and no one ever said a building a £2000 car was going to

be a piece of cake

 

I don't want to put you off or build your hopes up, V8, but I can see a LOT of hard

work ahead and plenty of snags along the way, but then again I don't see why I or anyone can't make a perfectly decent car out of that kit, given the time, space and motivation

 

Feel free to ask me any questions.

 

Pete

[Guest v8cortina]

Many thanks for your reply. Very useful information Pete, much appreciated. I am hoping to visit them in the next two weeks to view the car. Will this make my mind up?!? They estimate about £3k is reasonable to get one of these Lightweights on the road. What do you think?

Thanks again

Thierry

[Guest docter fox]

you'll just have to be very careful about what you buy, as the little things add up more than you'd think on all of them

[Guest markmc]

are there any pictures of a finished lightweight? i take it these are sparce versions of the 2b with no carpets or trimmings etc?

 

Ive got the robinhood catalogue with a few pics but wondered if there where any more on the interweb!

[Guest docter fox]

not many pics on the interweb but I'll have a look on my computer at home to find some pictures I've taken at shows

 

the lightweight is a completely different car, its a lightweight monocoque chassis and is riveted together, I think they have more details on the website?

 

do a search on here to find out everything that's been said

[Guest piddy]

Heres one

[Guest piddy]

And another

[Guest piddy]

Better still click here.

 

 

Pictures of light weight on the Easthoods site