Ex Andy Priaulx Spider restoration

Thanks to young Joe Watts at Raw Power motorsport in Essex for these photos he has sent of the rebuild project of an ex Andy Priaulx
race spider. Hopefully more to come. The plan is to get Andy to drive the car at next years Goodwood Festival of Speed. If anyone has been following our Twitter feed yesterday, you will know Andy himself joined in the conversation!

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Will be interesting to see the progress on this car.

[stephendell]

That must be the umpteenth ex Andy Priaulx or Jason Plato race spider claim to date lol

Has he got more info to back this one up?

Joe says its Chassis 9932 although not seen any proof of that. Andy Priaulx campaigned for 2 seasons, given Josh Files Clio Cup champion season allegedly used 5 new cars, then its not unreasonable to assume that Andy may have had at least 2 cars during his time in the championship.

a few more pics, thanks Joe.
chassis plate:

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refurbed pedal ass:

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[stephendell]

Can you let him know I have plenty of new OEM pedal box parts in stock.

Can you let him know I have plenty of new OEM pedal box parts in stock.

He is registered and reading Stephen. joe_watts

little update from Twitter:


Engine started for the first time today and body work is now on... Finishing touches over the next few weeks...

Some more photos courtesy of Joe Watts.

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[stephendell]

Looks like they are doing a really nice and thorough job

Thanks all for comments!

I’ll add some pictures over the weekend and into next week. The roll cage has now been sprayed and is ready for fitting. We are now thoroughly checking everything on the car to make sure it has all been done correctly. We are hopeful she will be finished over the next few weeks. But I’ll keep you all posted.

Thanks

Joe

Sorry for the lack of updates, I went back to uni so the project was put to a stop until summer started.

Now I’m back I’ve done some more work on the Spider over the past week. Some of the jobs include: Roll cage on, rear lights and wiring in, general tidying and organising of entire wiring loom and some other bits and bobs.

I will try to keep posting updates on here as and when I remember.

Hearing some rather shocking news today about a fire at Robbie Watts workshop with several cars lost- Have not had it confirmed yet that this is amongst them but fear the worse. Must be heartbreaking for Robbie, Joe and the whole family to loose such a big part of their lives- at least they are ok thank god.




There has been a crowdfunding appeal set up to help out- although money will never replace all this, at least it may help him get back to racing again.
Best wishes to Robbie and Joe and the rest of the family and just hope to see them out racing again soon.
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Sh1t that's just terribly sad

Holy Smoke, that is a shocking sight. So glad no one is hurt.
Feel for their loss big time.