The reason it’s named “Seven” is because that’s how many years it’ll take you to build it. I watched a friend go through this, totally cured me of the idea. An

The reason it’s named “Seven” is because that’s how many years it’ll take you to build it. I watched a friend go through this, totally cured me of the idea. An absolute metric shit-ton of work and you end with a car you - quite realistically - rarely drive. When you start this project as a young person, your priorities are clear: I want to drive around in a Caterham/Lotus Seven. Seven years later, your priorities have shifted somewhat and those 49-Dog-Years have erased the memory of the reasoning that caused you to start this project in the first place. Your friends have gone through an average of two motorbikes, two cars and three partners each, and discovered that multi-link suspension is awesome, fuel efficiency is important, garages are hard to come by and there’s only 12 weekends in the whole year when you might get a chance to go out on a bit of lark with your mates that involves vehicles.