Was that yours Rocket Man?

[mapes]

Rocket Man is that your old Atom just appeared on Ebay?

[Linus86]

Sure is ! Looks so good in them colours !!

[Rocket Man]

Yes that was my car. Bought new by Stupot in green then owned by me and I did the gulf colours on it and the orange belts and my own design custom mirrors. I want another but with full orange chassis and gulf colours. When the Porsche goes it will be the time

Y car looks good but that is a lot of money for a 160. I think it should be more like 23k in my opinion

[Lord Studley]

How much does a re spray like that cost? If you don't mind me asking

Chris

[Rocket Man]

was not bad, about 700, it was not the best quality but i am very fussy with detail. i did not want to spend too much but i would not have used that company on a newer car, at the time it was an 8 yr old car. from 2 ft away the paint looks good tho

[Lord Studley]

Certainly looks the dogs danglelys in the pictures. 

[Rocket Man]

it is a cracker, it won best maintained car at AtomX when it was owned by stuart, a true credit to his maintenance. to paint fiberglas to a show finish costs a lot especialy with 8yr old panels. my next one will be painted from new. it will be a good buy for someone but not at that price, perhaps in 10 yreas you expect to pay that for a 160. i just loved those mirrors i fitted, they worked so well and matched the style of the car. i always felt the standard mirrors just do not look right but that is just me. the standard mirrors were the only thing i did not like on the Atom

[John Scherrer]

See this link for pictures/story when Stu sold it - Cleaner than when it left the factory 

http://www.atomclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,12177.0.html

[John Scherrer]

This was the Brammo Gulf-inspired Atom ..

[Lord Studley]

Knew I should of stuck to the original choice of orange, would of made the re spray cheaper. Lol

[mapes]

Noticed the rubber stoppers on the back of the seats, to stop chaffing the air intake U tube. Are they door stoppers and did you just glue them on? My seats have rubbed away some paint on the tube, cos my dangly legs mean I need to have the seat all the way back...

[Rocket Man]

I had the same problem with the paint rubbing off. I put some silver carbon wrap around the tubes with the join at the back were you could not see it then fitted the bungs to the back of the seats and also some on top of the tubes inbetween the seats on top of the tubes on the tunel. the front ones stopped the seats rocking backwards and forwards with throte movement.
i used a thick stif foam that i cut for the front into squares and a round hole cutter to cut circles for behind the seats. I then glued them in place with a bit of evostick.
It all worked very well and i was very pleased with the efect it had making the seat more rigid
Before i fitted the foam there was a lot of seat flexing causing kangarooing when you hit a bumpy road caused by your seat flexing and your leg jerking. The foam stopped all that