1970 Ginetta G15

I use Evans Lift

Ref jjeffries and DS comments regarding headroom in a G15, this picture clearly shows that it isn't an issue - OK, so I'm a shortie guy at 5'7", but my navigator son is 6'1" and still plenty of room. As DS comments it's partly the style of the seats - modified originals with side harness slots and headrests (courtesy of DS, one of the first things we modifed after I acquired PHX from him...)

The latest on the G15 front

I picked up a combined single 40 manifold locally for a reasonable sum and logicaluk dropped by whilst on his way back home after collecting his triumph spare haul from Telford to drop a pair of wishbones off. Cheers Bud.

Phone rang the other day, Mrs DS picked it up and handed it over and on the end of the phone was the lady owner of a G15 that she bought new from the factory in the early 70's 50 years in the same ownership! Some bloke with a white G21 had given her my number as she had recently moved from Surrey (I think) up here to Shropshire and needed to find find someone to do some welding on the chassis. Imagine my joy

The car lives a few miles South from where I am in the top of the county and last weekend I took a trip down to have a look and see was left of this 50 year old original chassis....

It was right lovely in Shropshire today - I left home with bright blue skies and as I crested the side Grinshill on the A49 by Preston Brockhurst the snow topped of the Shropshire hills I was heading towards looked very picturesque indeed. It was chilly but with the Sun providing some radiated heat, working outside was a pleasure.

I notice an area at the front of the chassis that needed attention so started there to get things rolling.











Then moved onto the worst piece of rot - I had initially though that I could save two of the sides but in the end only one side looked salvageable but was just not good enough so I let in complete section.








The passenger side was much better overall and just one face of the section needed a repair











New body / seat belt mount plates completed the main repairs.

















there were three other small areas that needed attending to but I went through them without taking pictures as time was getting on and I wanted it all done before I left.

Job done - chassis repaired.

Bit of an oddity with this G15 - The rear springs that were fitted were Imp front springs ! They do not fit in Wishbones or the upper chassis mount cups - very odd. I would expect them to be very soft as typically the rear springs on a G15 are 380lb rating - Imp fronts are 194lb

I need to find my G15 rear spring info.

Always nice to get big bits of work to the paint stage. Even nicer when the blasters doesn't show that your big piece of work is even bigger than you thought

Nice find, lucky.

PHX is being given a refresh at the moment so there is a chance that bizzo will post a couple of photos of the guard off the car - It protects a bit more than just the sump as it runs from the suspension crossmember to the engine crossmember so protects the entire drive line.





IIRC its a slab of 8mm Dural - I am not sure if the body under tray is 2 or 3mm and then the front skid may be 5 or 6mm

Well, if you are planning to do similar events to Mike then all the info on how to prepare a G15 is in this thread and likely the Stratos thread as quite a bit went in there before they got separated to cover cars individually.