After having my xr4x4 for over 10 years and racing it for the last 5 ive finally bought the race car I always wanted a saph cosworth 4x4.
Road car Cosworth 4x4 shells came with a sunroof and only motorsport shells didn't, these are getting very thin on the ground now especially ones that haven't been ragged through a forest!
The only other shells that didn't have a sunroof were police cars again these are rare.
after a flippant comment on a thread I was pm'd on here by cossie09 keith explained that he had an ex police car saph cosworth shell and it was for sale, only problem was it was in Northern Ireland!! Undeterred I struck a deal and this week myself and my dad did a 25 hour round trip to collect the shell.


The plan is to repair this shell, remove all corrosion etc then fit a new cage and then repaint the car radiant red like my xr, then transfer all the running gear from my xr into it.
when that's done I will rebuild the xr into a lower spec yb powered race car for my son to use, he's 15 now so I have a few years to sort it.
I will update this thread as I go but its going to take a while!


My present race car fitted with a 455 bhp cosworth motor and Quaife dogbox





My new shell














First thing I did when I got it home was fit a boot and bonnet to seal it up and stop any more water ingress, oh and my dad kindly washed it!





steve