No new updates, hopefully some later this week if all goes to plan I will have some bodywork photos to share. I have managed to get morette headlights for it as well as the LC bumper I mentioned a few posts earlier, so it will largely look the same, but with different wheels and probably graphics of some sort when I get to that stage, a long way off!

From speaking to Tony the headlights were actually proper ford rally items and not morette, but these were the closest I could get, if I do come across a set I will use those instead. I'm still looking for a Tarcal front strut brace if anyone knows of one for sale?!?!

As for buying the shell, I asked Tony a few times about the car since I've always been interested in it, and after some time had passed he kindly gave in and decided to let it go, can't really blame him either as it will take a lot of time and money to put right and having done it millions of times already (as well as building this car once, to see the way it is now) I definitely couldn't be arsed touching it!!!!

The white "snow storm" saph still exists and is complete as far as I know, as for the frst, never seen or heard of it I'm afraid.....

As soon as you google the plate or desert storm it comes up with a lot of results on Google images, hardly surprising given the many makeovers it's had. I didn't know for sure it was the same car until I got the V5, but I did suspect it for a while, was nice to clarify it.

This is the only steel wide arched saph I know of, there are some thundersaloon type wide arch race cars I saw via Google, but I don't know anything else about them, any info on that would be nice to know and discuss in here too.

For now, I'm just keeping going with it and hope it shows some signs of improvement soon! :-/