As the PC 23 is back on the board of @champwebdotnet renowned #chassismadness poll I'm going to post a few photos from the restoration of PC 23 008 which was a '94 Emerson / '95 Johansson race car but also driven by @alunserjr Pt and Greg Moore in testing.

There is a degree of synchronicity to this story. 008 was owned by Chuck Sprage (Penske team manager) for a number of years. We shook hand on the sale at the 2011 Vegas race, a few months after this photo was taken by @AndyBrown910 at Goodwood. Dan was sat in 007, Indy winner.

Arrival after some 2 days of difficulty with the import authorities. There was some confusion as to why the car was apparently 3ft shorter than what was on the paperwork... but we got there in the end.

It was instantly clear that there was a lot missing and what was there wasn't in great shape. No complaints though - it was bought sight unseen and the value to me is in the chassis history.

The first big positive was that there was a pure bread 265D engine. It turned out that there are less of these knocking around than the pushrod 'Beast' engine as almost all were upgraded to D+ which was a D with '95 heads.

Not unexpectedly for a race car turned show car the wishbones were chromed as were the brake disks - Chrome is not well known for it's high friction properties! But it is known for inducing hydrogen embrittlement in welds that causes wishbones to crack.

The first thing that had to be sorted was the forward bulkhead - a glued in Mag structure that had suffered over the years. Fortunately it was structurally sound but needed a bit of TLC

Fair to say there were a lot of addons that also needed attention, and this was for the bits we had.

It's easy to forget the myriad of carbon parts but they were a very large part of the overall project.

Uprights and spindles after restoration.

As encouraged by @followJCRacing (who helped get them re-coated) - a photo of the Metalore drive line parts.

PC 23 Throttle peddle - we didn't have one of these but were able to copy one. Ady Matthews, who made the original, made the new titanium item. Note the hook to insure the driver has a chance to shut a jammed throttle.

Adjustable front anti-roll bar. A cable from the cockpit lever allows the blades to rotate. In pic 1 the blades are in the soft position. Rotated 90deg in pic 2 they would be full stiff. There are various blade thicknesses for the more course changes.

Front rockers and re-manufactured pins for dampers and FARB arms. The pins were a request by the mechanics and while they were a nice idea there was always some clearance which meant a little historicise in the system so they were dropped for 1995.

Chassis during re-paint. I find it hard to post these pics as Tom Castle, who did this work, was tragically killed in an aero accident 18 months ago. Getting the red correct is a monster task - one solid coat over white then a mist coat to make it glow. Tom nailed it first time.

RIP mate, you were like my little brother.

New wishbones, again an Ady Matthews creation to the original drawings - original guy to original drawings as as authentic as you can realistically get and that means a lot to me. Eye wateringly expensive to produce but equally eye wateringly beautiful.

I owe a lot to @followJCRacing for these. I really didn't expect to be able to fit original dampers and was in discussions with @PenskeShocks about making new which, to their eternal credit, they were happy to entertain.

I can't recall where I picked this wing up from so apologies for not being able to give credit. It was a @SJohanssonF1 wing from Laguna '95 so every chance it ran on chassis 008 and is what is fitted now.

Bare chassis and front damper cover back from paint. First metal bits mounted.

PC 23 cockpit airjacks and dump valve.

Mono-bump 3rd spring system that resided under a carbon panel both front and rear. This was born out of the 8800 active suspension system tried on a PC 22 test car. The idea was to run the car lower without bottoming out as the downforce kicked in.

Front lower wishbone mount - cracked in several places presumably as a result of the US500 accident in 1996. Fortunately we had a spare that was undamaged.

Newly re-anodised brake disk bells.