Reimagined RELIANT SCIMITAR Design Progressing 

How is it possible that such a quality channel isnt attracting more subscribers, you deserve many more!!

All the hard work put in to the Interceptor is paying off, it's looking seriously good.

I keep pausing just to drink in the front view of that Jensen. Four round front lights, as so hornily rocked by the Interceptor, various Triumphs, the Rover P6 and pre-1990s BMWs definitely need to make a come-back.

Sunday complete ☕️😉👍🏻🇬🇧🇬🇧

Interceptor is looking fantastic. Really looking forward to the Scimitar build.

Jamie; nice to see the return of (in this case, sections of) Seal 😊

The front shape on the scimitar’s. Would look good with flip round headlights like an early corvette!

It is always a pleasure to see the progress on the various projects.

Amazing! I've been trying to find the sway bar bushings for a 1992 Lancer Hatchback for three months now without success, and here they are, rebuilding prototyped versions of obscure cars, progressing without a care in the world!

What you said about the slight dimensional changes making big differences reminds me of when Lotus redesigned the Esprit in like 88. IIRC, no dimension changed from the previous car by moree than 1 inch and it was a much more modern design.

The Jenson is looking fabulous

Since you were talking about the challenges of mounting a vehicle to a rotisserie. I would love some info or thoughts on how to mount a Range Rover Classic on a rotisserie. I would also love to see more about the Nats Range Rover Classic. Maybe a weekly or monthly update!? Might be a good excuse to make more progress if you have to give updates 😉.

Hey dudes, I used to work in car audio. For quite a well known and prestigious company. If you can get yourself a “sine sweep” audio track it will help identify rattles, not just from the subwoofer but from all the other parts of the car. If you included that in your q.c it would help find rattles pretty quickly. Really respect the work you do. ❤

I knew my suggestion of using earlier slim metal door handles would solve the style line problem. Scimitar is gonna be mint!

Whatever you pay Matt… Pay him more! He did a wonderful job on the Jensen!

Love the look of the interceptor, beautiful shape

50 years later Allegro gets it's MoJo. Loved that pumped body style

@9:28 - holesawing the dash , have you considered 'slug punches' ? Greenlee and others do a hydraulic version , gives a clean finish , I think they're mostly used by electricians for making holes for glands in cabinets.

Quartic wheel arches on the Allegra 😉

Thats how it should look.

Love this channel and the cars your team produces, incredible quality. I love Scimitars and the SE4 in particular, the shape of the rear side windows is part of what makes them special, don't feel you have to change this. Keep the videos coming 👍

If I had a work of art carbonfibre bonnet made by you guys, I'd _have_ to have it clearcoated so it would be on full display!

Amazing work as always. I look forward to seeing what the gang is up to every Sunday night! A question for Nat, regarding CFRP bonding to steel bodyshells: Can you elaborate on the order of operation of blasting, zinc metal spray, epoxy, raptor, and bonding? I'm under the impression that the structural adhesive needs to bond to freshly abraded steel and it seems a recipe for corrosion issues. Is it simply a matter of ensuring full coverage of the steel flanges with the structural adhesive or is there some post process for sealing the joints? Maybe a tangent worthy of an AutoFocus episode!

Is Marc from Derby. Lived in Ireland twenty years but love a Derby accent!

The Simpsons clips in the edit had me creased!

Looking forward to seeing the Scimitar design taking shape. I’ve had a P1800S that I “restomoded” in the 80’s and been toying with the idea of doing an ES - then what do I see on George’s laptop ? A P1800ES for inspiration for the Scimitar project. As always, you channel is loaded with craftsmanship and quality in every aspect.

I love the P1800 picture as a reference when doing the scimitar design 🙂 a car also well worth your efforts though the cyan is a solid piece in that area …

Thanks for these posts, the level of detail that you guys consider on each and every aspect of each car is amazing - and just a bit intimidating. I now know I'm never going to be able to restomod my fantasy Imp / Elan / Sceptre, I just don't have the skills or equipment

Amazing channel and content!

great to see the work welding always gloves on

Something very P1800Es about it in the render Cal I like that very much.

Wow! When I was a teen living in California my mothers boyfriend who was a road manager for a band had a Jensen Interceptor. It had that dark purple/black/brown/blue/green color shifting paint. Wheels were polished bright and the interior was black leather and suede. Only problem was it never ran well. Always wondered what happened to that car.

The Allegros would look good with Peoguet 3008 steering wheels 👍

Scimitar is looking great, would love to see different rear lights though. Something totally different would be great

If I ever win the lottery you guys will definitely be seeing me lol

The Jenson panels now look so good , it doesn't look like an Interceptor any more ! 😂 Likely much more like it was originally designed and drawn . Love your teams work .

The Retropower Scimitar looks great but I feel you should try to move away from the Lotus Elite MK2 styling and do a dechrome.

There's a couple of blokes in Shropshire who built themselves a neat car rotisserie and chassis rack in one. Go have a look at what they did and make your own improved version?

I can't get over a leather wrapped roll cage in an escort, bonkers

wow!

I hope you go with the GAA engine in the Scimitar as the sound and performance is unreal (I've seen and heard Ric Woods)

Hope Jamie's cold gets better hahaha and nice bit of product placement, hopefully Beechams will slip you a few quid 🤣

Nate, gotta say, you lost me a bit in the first 5 minutes because of your engineering knowledge, but, the Audi was one of my favorite cars back in the 80's, and know the whole team will do an awesome job with it !! Cheers from Australia :) Also James, linking Nate with Barney from the Simpsons, with a sneeze, made me laugh, noice touch :)

Cal, is the dog a genuine original Jack Russel or a re- engineered German Shepherd? 😂

37:13 100% Definitely should be black on colour 😍👌

Amazing quality of work you do. One question, how much re-shaping can you do with lead filled panels ? I've done a very small amount of lead filling but always treated it like polyester filler once applied.

Please take us out in Kaiser whe. You test her🙏

I noticed the radii of the corner of the Escort boot lid and the rebate in the body seemed to be somewhat different. Is there any desire to correct that prior to paint or is this expected/accepted?

I’m loving the Jensen wish I could afford that level of rebuild on my Mk3 what are the wheels that are on it

With Marc touching all the pieces in the spray booth won't the natural grease on his hands contaminate the surface and cause issues further down the line ? Unless building a racing car why do owners go to the expense of carbon fiber, no one sees it.

Hi Retropower, I have a question about the Interceptor, what do you think will it weigh at the end, the Dodge Challenger 392 SRT8 comes in at 1892 kg, which makes it heavier than my M5 F10 manual (1855 kg) just for me to have a reference. Two of the shortcomings of the stock Interceptor were the live axle and the automatic gearbox, great you went for IRS but did the owner never consider a manual conversion, which would have been very easy as the Dodge Challenger 392 SRT8 was available with a 6-speed box? And lastly, that's purely my personal taste, would it have been possible to redesign the rear deck as I never like the "glas house" and going for a more Fastback-design? By the weigh how much weighs the rear glas? I don't like the rear, but for me the front is absoluty gorgeous. Thanks in advance, keep those videos coming.

Talking of CV8.. how is that coming on?

Marc is a natural star.

In terms of re-registration of the cars for UK customers, how difficult or easy is that process with the DVLA, or is there a different process for a car that is essentially brand new?

Have you thought about doing guided tours off your workshops

what is the name of that panel bond from wayside? on their website I can only find metal to metal adhesive! is it the same as 3M 08115?

I think Retropower should build and DB4 shell and put it on the new vantage body Like David brown has done with the DB GT. He has basically copied the DB5 and put it on new Jaguar running gear. Looks good though.

Jenson interceptor. Aston Martin and mini moke are the 3 coolest names for cars.

What does Marc mean by "Sealer bits"?

the more I think of you the stranger it feels

I'm going to say it. I miss the shorter edited (cut) videos. Life is short enough. Please don't be offended this is merely an outcry to the potential you guys have. Shorter +- 10min more specifically themed videos and more often could be a start. Still love your work

Obviously the owner of the Audi is footing the cost of this jig. Is it his to take away once the jobs complete?

Yes, that scimitar redesign doesn’t really work for me either. The rear quarter glass looks too big and heavy, makes the car look like it’s sat on its arse. Needs the lower profile of the glass to be more upswept in keeping with the original design and it would work better, part of the original cars good design in my opinion, and not really cohesive with the front of the car.

The bodywork on the Jensen is looking far too good to cover in paint, seems sacrilegious to not just lacquer it after the quality work.

I know it’s customer choice but why would they both pick terrible colours ( shiny primer & boy racer blue & white ) would look must better in a nicer metallic all over or a pearl white .

The workmanship of this team is truly first class... Nat, mate, could you think about treating the English language as you would a car? 🙂

It’s so great to see carbon parts worth the name. Using carbon laminate structurally correct and actually saving weight by doing so. I’m so tired of seeing carbon design add on‘s that will most likely add weight and just a fake carbon look to the cars… 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

That isn’t a Scimitar design anymore. If you think “design reimagined” you think Singer 911, where they kept what makes the design great and enhance it… This doesn’t do that. It’s completely ignored what Tom Karen loved about it, the rising waistline from the centre of the car backwards and the roof/tail flick. This has a lowering waistline that makes it look lazy, then widening it and lowering the roof line makes it look flat and with a lack of purpose, as does the shape change of the rear side window. It’s now left the C pillar and rear hatch looking like an afterthought rather than a feature of its design being the first sporting estate. Now, put back in the side window and you reintroduce a forward stance to the rear of the car, that also matches the angle of the trailing edge of the rear wheel arch, as well as the angle put on the vent by the rear light. Not that anyone will care or agree. Ah well.

sorry, but those so called subtle changes to the scimitar have removed what makes the gte special. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should