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About 15 min into the video and its giving be strong memories of a book I was given as a kid: "Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250" by Ron Champion
by samwillis 5y ago
About 15 min into the video and its giving be strong memories of a book I was given as a kid:
"Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250" by Ron Champion
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Sports-Little-£250/dp/0854299769 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Sports-Little-£250/dp/08...
It includes all plans and instructions on how to build a Lotus 7 style car from scratch using a Ford Escort Mk 3 as the donor car.
Always dreamt of one day doing it.
I believe it created a whole mini industry of workshops manufacturing components for amateurs to buy if they wanted to skip a step. There was/is a racing series for them too.
- jermaustin1 5y agoThe Lotus 7 is one of my favorite sports car designs. Caterham has done a great job of making these modern and bringing them to America.
- samwillis 5y agoLove the Caterham 7, one day when the kids have left home the plan is to convince the wife building one is a good way to keep me out of the house. Amazingly our house has an inspection pit in the garage crying out to be used.