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Old 12-22-2010, 02:33 PM
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Default Hi from Scotland

I have been interested in building Riley Specials for a number of years. I have built three and am on my fourth. They are two seater ally bodies. I have experience of metalshaping but am keen to learn more. Your site was recommended to me by a local fella who is a very keen member. (redoxide I think) So far I am very impressed.

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Old 12-22-2010, 02:40 PM
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Welcome Jim, Got any photos of your specials?
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Old 12-22-2010, 03:14 PM
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Jim, welcome to the site, hope it will fit your need. We love to see photos of builds. Thanks for joining us. Looking forward to see more post from you.
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Old 12-22-2010, 04:51 PM
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Default Some pics of my Riley Special builds

Hi, thanks for the welcome. I will try to post a couple of pics of each of the Rileys. They are built on Prewar Riley chassis and have all prewar running gear and mechanicals. As such they qualify for Vintage racing in UK.

The first one I built is the grey 1.5 litre KSJ 818 and there are quite a number of flat panels. The second is the 2.5 litre competition car I built for a friend. The third is the pointed tail unpainted one which has the 9hp under 1000cc engine.

Hope you like them!













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Old 12-22-2010, 05:09 PM
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Jim, the Rileys are very nice each has its own look. Thanks for posting the pictures.
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Old 12-29-2010, 06:53 AM
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hello jim
nice pictures of the cars , is that foristburn hill climb in one of then ??

look forward to seeing some more of them

welcome to the site
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Old 12-30-2010, 04:01 AM
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Great Pictures Jim, welcome aboard.

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Old 12-30-2010, 11:45 AM
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Welcome Jim!
nice cars
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Old 12-30-2010, 01:40 PM
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Hi Jim, Glad you made it, there is a lot of great information here, and Ive certainly found everyone to be very helpfull when Ive got stuck on stuff. Good to see the pics of your cars too. Hope to get around to pick your brains in the new year.
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Old 12-30-2010, 07:15 PM
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Nice cars Jim!! I love that style car. I've been watching Ian's project thinking I might have to have one....
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