Trackday Car - Maybe More

[Fury1630]

Folks, get the handkies out, this is a tale of woe.
Way back in the late '90s a friend of mine built a Sylva Stylus (actually an SSC Stylus). Like me he's an aircraft engineer & he built it to a high standard. He worked closely with the guy that was making the Chassis at that time (Nev Powell of NHP Racing) & they built it a bit special.

It's NOT based on a clapped out MkII Escort, he built it around a low mileage but very rusty Toyota Corolla (the RWD one) so it has a 4Age engine, alloy cased 5 speed gearbox, LSD, discs all round. The chassis was re-designed by him & Nev Powell to accept all the Toyota goodness, so it's not bodged together.

Now here's the sad part. Having done only a few thousand miles in it, he was seconded to America, liked it, met a girl, got married, had kids ............ So for the last ten years, the car's been sat in his Mum's garage gathering dust. But she's now moving into an old folks home & my friend's come to realise what I've been telling him for ten years - the Stylus has to go.

Summary:-
British Racing Green Stylus - pretty much like a Fury, but a little more civilised (bigger doors & a boot)
All Toyota running gear (hubs machined to take Ford wheels, axle converted to five link & coil-overs) & Toyota wiring loom.
Has been used on the road, but V5 says "Toyota Sports" & it carries the Corolla reg. Plenty of potential to IVA it, but would need a complete tear-down & re-build. As a track-day car it would (probably) only need freeing up & re-running in.
It has a full interior - again hardly used, but no weather gear.
He has no idea what it's worth, but I'm guessing he'll be in a hurry to sell it, so you'd have to make your mind up on what it was worth to you.
It was VERY well engineered, it'd be a pity to see it scrapped.

It's located in south-west London, just inside the M25.

[MangoFury]

What a shame it never got used in the way it should have been.

If I had some money and another garage I'd be up for it. Sadly I have neither.

Is it one with a full width opening bonnet or one with the small inset bonnet panel?

[Fury1630]

What a shame it never got used in the way it should have been.

If I had some money and another garage I'd be up for it. Sadly I have neither.

Is it one with a full width opening bonnet or one with the small inset bonnet panel?

Me too. He's tried to import it to the States, but as it has no type approval it would have to comply to current regs for any other import. If he could prove it was a 1980's car (when the Corolla was built) he could get it in against 1980's regs, but of course he can't do that either. He could get it in as a track only car, but with a 1 year old & a five year old, just hasn't the time or space & even that would cost him around $5k. He has letters from the bloke in charge of the American VOSA, so he's done his homework.

The bonnet's an inset panel, but the flip-front is a "retrofit". The whole shell is one piece which makes it much easier to fit than the Fury, but even on cars built with a flip-front, you fit the one piece shell, bond the back on, then cut the front off.