7 style project options
Discussion
A bit of a unusual one.
My MD has decided it would be a great idea for our company to build / refurbish a kit car!
The criteria are a 7 style car, initial budget is up to £5k with funds available after that to complete, smaller chunks of approx £500 a time (so he can sneak it past the FD, his wife!). The main one is it has to require some work (anything from a complete strip down and re-build to a light restoration) although somewhere in between would be good. No new builds.
The objectives are to have a car at the end that anybody in the company can use either on the road or on track and to give the apprentices a project to work on and learn some new skills. As the only real car nut it has landed on me organise most of this!
The problem with this is I only have a small amount of knowledge on these types of cars. This amounts to once hiring one for the day and reading the Haynes how to build a sports car book!
Obviously the first thing we have to do is source a car. I've been looking on eBay and it seems you can buy a lot of tiger 6 for £5k and some nice looking westfields. I'd really love a caterham but all the cars on eBay are complete cars which we don't really want and go for ALOT more money. I've heard robin hoods are poor and look very shonkey to my eyes. I am tempted by a MK Indy as they are only located about 5 miles away. The main problem I've come across so far is finding something that needs some work, where are all the unfished projects I imagine are out there? A lot of the ones I've seen so far just look like good honest straight cars that maybe could do with a bit of a fettle.
So collective wisdom of PH, what are your suggestions on what car and where can I find them? And I promise to start a readers car thread when we get going.
My MD has decided it would be a great idea for our company to build / refurbish a kit car!
The criteria are a 7 style car, initial budget is up to £5k with funds available after that to complete, smaller chunks of approx £500 a time (so he can sneak it past the FD, his wife!). The main one is it has to require some work (anything from a complete strip down and re-build to a light restoration) although somewhere in between would be good. No new builds.
The objectives are to have a car at the end that anybody in the company can use either on the road or on track and to give the apprentices a project to work on and learn some new skills. As the only real car nut it has landed on me organise most of this!
The problem with this is I only have a small amount of knowledge on these types of cars. This amounts to once hiring one for the day and reading the Haynes how to build a sports car book!
Obviously the first thing we have to do is source a car. I've been looking on eBay and it seems you can buy a lot of tiger 6 for £5k and some nice looking westfields. I'd really love a caterham but all the cars on eBay are complete cars which we don't really want and go for ALOT more money. I've heard robin hoods are poor and look very shonkey to my eyes. I am tempted by a MK Indy as they are only located about 5 miles away. The main problem I've come across so far is finding something that needs some work, where are all the unfished projects I imagine are out there? A lot of the ones I've seen so far just look like good honest straight cars that maybe could do with a bit of a fettle.
So collective wisdom of PH, what are your suggestions on what car and where can I find them? And I promise to start a readers car thread when we get going.
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