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The ex Micael Horley Olympic has now changed hands and has started the long journey back to life.
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Recently I have been talking to the new owner of 120 DPX who is feverishly restoring the car with a view to racing it. Recently sold on ebay and acquired by one of our new members the car is in a very ...

Rochdale Motor Panels never issued chassis numbers as such, this was left to the first owner to sort out, RMP referred to the bodies they built using the order book numbers. Quite a lot of owners took ...

I guess it may be worth noting that this item has the bracketry to fit the phase 2 Olympic.

We have done this on a couple of our restorations, as you say the seats are a little small for anything other than occasional use. If you use the car as a 2 seater you can produce some decent storage ...

A good quality etch primer followed by an oil based chassis paint. If the arms are off the car you could even poor the primer into the cavities, once built up some Waxoil or Deltron sprayed inside as ...

I have replaced as many photos as I can from our website archive, unfortunately I don't have pictures of all the cars.

I have been assisting one of our members to post some pictures of his car onto the forum members cars section.

Just to clarify, when posting pictures you need to use the Img command which is situ ...

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I have been assisting one of our members to post some pictures of his car onto the forum members cars section.

Just to clarify, when posting pictures you need to use the Img command which is situat ...

I have taken a few pictures of a standard Olympic phase 1 hinge set up, as can be seen the hinges pivot well back from the bonnets rear edge, this is to allow the rear of the bonnet to clear when it i ...

Over the years many people have tried different designs for the hinges on an Olympic, I have personally tried about 4 different designs none of which were particularly successful. I now use a system w ...

Way back in the early 1980's I fitted a rear hatch to my phase 1 WFV 812, we cut the original car to produce a rear door panel which was then fitted with a steel tube surround which included the hinge ...

The supercharger itself is tucked away underneath all the pipework, the only picture I have showing it was taken when we were sorting out the mountings.

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Jason's car is a phase 2R so it is running Riley 1.5 all round. The front has been modified (I think) to run coil overs, and the rear radius arms have had our rose joint conversion fitted. Apart from ...