Oliver - The Great Dutton Rebuild

This is Oliver not the most flattering picture!

Await with wonder the posting of the latest stages of the greatest project ever attempted by man in the 21st century. He can rebuild her/him/it....

The car... won the Davenport memorial at Shelsley Walsh once)

• Dutton shell & bulkhead only, custom-built chassis and suspension.
• Engine: 3.5L 10:51cr blueprinted, balanced, ported and polished.
• Unknown race cam
• Mallory distributor
• Holley carb.
• Transmission: LT77 5-speed, Des Shelley prop, Cosworth dif.

Current rebuild status

• The chassis is done bar welding in the floorplates which I should get next week.
• The shell is still at the paint shop being prepped.
• I'll start on building the new wiring loom next weekend followed by the mechanics

March 17th -Hey the chassis and hubs just got back from powder coating, I also got the loom finished. Re-assembly begins this afternoon. March 11th - Expecting chassis back from powder coating and shell back from the spray shop next Saturday but in the meantime I'm having fun building a new loom.  See below, that's just the front half!  Got a week off work next week - so I'll be cleaning up the panels plus doing the suspension parts and diff  if I get the chance.. Older Pictures Spy Pictures....