How’s it going with the Silvermine 11SR?

Posted on 15-02-2016 at 14:07 by perry_snijders – 15 Comments”

In september 2014, we saw for the first time, how the Silvermine 11SR was going to get out. In the course of 2015, the brand from the Province of Overdinkel a first instance show. That we have equally missed. Time to call Frank of Rouendal.

‘The show of that car is not successful, that much is clear. However, We are still working on it, so it is not that we have the towel in the ring have thrown. There are two reasons why it took longer than we had planned. The first is that we want to do; the quality is more important than a car with all the violence at a particular time. The second is that we had to do with progressive insight. Sometimes changing your mind in the course of the time, or mainly in the course of the process.”
That latter sounds enigmatic, but fortunately light Rouendal. ‘First, we wanted a car to build, gradually, we came to the understanding that it is a trackday car. Only then can you min or more affordable car to build that real driving pleasure. All we will have once that state sooner or later is really street versions to produce, but now we concentrate fully on it.’

Which affordable car is in this case completely self-designed, the Subaru-sourced engine. Almost automatically you will think, therefore, that other Dutch brand, Saker: too friendly, even Subaru engines. “Those are two agreements, but also almost the only two. They make what they think is right, we make what we like. A Saker is more of a racer, a car where lap times are paramount. Our focus is really on driving pleasure.’

Of course, we are still wondering when we get to the end result. Rouendal: ‘Look, the car was designed by two brothers, Marco and Andries van Overbeeke. They are a bit… What shall I say? They are something mediabewuster than I am. At this time, the body parts built and then they have to be shipped, because that is done outside the Netherlands. But of course, we go into 2016 that car show. The progress we make is through our website. And you can count on it that we shout from the rooftops — I also — if it really is finished.’