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What MADAS means, the team heraldry and the people behind the MADAS Team
MADAS has two possible meanings
Monoposto Automobile Drivers and Supporters = MADAS
or it may be just
MAD AS a March Hare with a Spanner in its hand = MADAS
We will let you choose which is more appropriate as we can’t remember and don't care which came first ;-)
MADAS Heraldry
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Original MADAS logo development by Paul Shennan.
Paul kindly did this sketch for us back in 2007. Thanks Paul for your brilliant graphical interpretation of what we are about.
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The MADAS March Hare was tweeked a little by changing him to wear workshop overalls to better incorporate the DIY mechanics that created this car.
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MADAS side guard artwork
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MADAS bonnet logo artwork
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The background colours represent New Zealand in the Black, White and Red bands at the top. The badge also respects its Italian whanau and inspiration by displaying the Italian yellow.
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The overalls are styled on New Zealand Kaimanawa wild horses as their tails are a bit more unkempt than their thoroughbred forebears.
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Why 59 on the Roundel's
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The Monoposto is styled on a 1959 Formula One car so we felt it fitting that we used the year as the car's number.
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As an aside - the Monoposto became road legal 60 years later. How technology has changed.
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Painting the Monoposto
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After a lot of pontificating we decided to paint the Monoposto Yellow (Resene Turbo Yellow was the final choice {RGB = 245 204 35}). Then we found it was the same colour as the Wellington Phoenix when the test pots were out of stock prior to a game.
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We also decided to "Coach Paint" (aka by hand), the reason for this was based in our ethos of doing as much as we can ourselves and we thought it was more appopriate for the era of the car, than a modern high gloss spray job.
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For those of you who are interested in how we painted the car the primer was two coats of Resene Armourcote 221 pale green (which was slightly off white) and we used a full 2 litres under the yellow top coats. mixed 4:1 with its special hardener.
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This was recommended as we were going over 'mixed substrates' of previous paint, other primer, fillers, fibre glass, aluminium, and steel.
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This was in turn covered in two coats of Resene "Turbo" Yellow Uracryl 403 and we uses about 1.5 litres mixed 3:1 with its appropriate hardener.
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We had 1 litre Resene No. 8 Thinners but hardly touched it. We also used their small 'test pot rollers' and generally only used them for one brew of paint (two at the max).
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A brew was between 40ml and 120ml at a time measured with 10ml disposable syringes of which we consumed quite a few.
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Resene recommend a 5 minute stand down after mixing a brew. We found this a bit much as by the time of applying a brew the paint was starting to kick, which is a lot faster than their recommended pot life. Maybe the hotter weather had an influence here?
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Sandpaper was 180 or 280 grit used wet. All up it came to about $300 to $350 and was DIY doable.
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Always wear a vapour mask in a well ventilated area as the stuff is dangerous - even more so if we had been spraying it!
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People behind MADAS and the Monoposto
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The MADAS phase of the project started shortly after the 2005 Constructors Car Club show in Lower Hutt when the club had an overnight outing to Pamerston North. Over the evening meal the idea was raised of finishing off George's Monoposto for use on the road. The informal MADAS team that was 'formed' were all members of the Constructors Car Club but it was not a CCC project as such.
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The Original Builders and Supporters Team were :- Dave B, Dave F, Ian P, Mike B, Rob W, Ross B, Roy H and our partners.
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Others like Mike Mc have giving technical support and specialist welder Paul and others have been a major help to the project. Thanks.
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George showing Dave, Mike, Ian, Ross where the engine is on the first working bee
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June, Dave, Dave and Mike stop for Smoko
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This project has been social engineering at it best.
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