Now I can post piccies...

[greenhomeelectronics]

Thought I would show you one of my non hifi related projects. This is called a Haynes roadster, I built it from scratch over an 18 month period. No, it is not a kit car, it is a scratch built carhttp://i1336.photobucket.com/albums/o657/thorcusmodee/IMGP4782_zpscf4f3bc2.jpg

[Rare Bird]

It's a bit like a caterham seven innit?

[Mr Kipling]

Hi Dave,

Years ago I bought Ron Champion's book, and started to collect parts - and things came to a halt. Was looking for some Lotus 7 Series 2 plans.

At least you've got something built. Did you use a Sierra for the doner? You've done well for getting it done in that time period. Quite often people don't really appreciate the difference between building a kitcar and building one from scratch, which is something quite different.

[SPS]

Wow, that's quite something and a lot of work and it looks a real drivers car

I'm hoping to get redundancy to give me some time to put an old Morgan together, and I know it will take a while as it's in packed in quite a few boxes, and there's a lot missing

[Audio Al]

No, it is not a kit car, it is scratch built car

Lovely looking car and I like the colour combo

But I must be missing something ? how is it not a kit car ? or did you make everything yourself from scratch , like the chassis , steering rack , suspension components ?

Kit cars come normally as a kit of new manufactured components then you use items from a doner vehicle

Is this car new everything and will be on a 62 plate ?

Very nice :)

[greenhomeelectronics]

Hi all. The car was a development of the original Ron Champion designed Locost. Ron was a metal work teacher at a boarding school. When his son reached "driving age" he bet him that they could build a car for under £250 - the locost self build car was born. It was one of the numerous Lotus 7 inspired vehicles, hundreds have been built with a wide range of engines and transmissions.
The original concept used Escort MKII components which became very rare and hard to acquire so a guy called Chris Gibbs redesigned the vehicle to use Sierra donor parts. My car used a 2 litre DOHC egine, the Sierra diff and drive shats, an Escort MK1 steering rack, Ford MT75 5 speed gearbox, Sierra steering colum (mofiied), sierra switch gear, front hubs, brake discs and calipers.
The chassis, suspension wishbones, rear hubs and bodywork, wiring loom etc were all scratch built.
I got as far as going to register the vehicle and could not be arsed with the beaurocratic bullshit and massive cost that went with it so I sold it and bought an XJR instead :-)
If you want to see the whole story my build is all on line at www.deepfolly.co.uk
Dave