Martin
02-15-2011, 03:44 PM
The time has finally come. After three years, saving the money, changed priorities in life, economic recession, two job promotions, saving the money (twice more), more economic downturn, the wife finally gave me permission to go ahead and start ordering everything for what was essentially her idea in the first place.
The cliff notes build plan:
MK4 Roadster, standard width, built to run like a 400HP Lotus Elise
Everything under the body - geared towards a rock solid street car that can cope with trips out for extended track days and trips across the ditch to the Nurburgring
Everything visible - authentic enough that the person who knows nothing thinks it is authentic
Fast Freddie Fabrications gets an order tonight, then Lodestone, FFMetal, Whitby's, Forte's, ISIS, Secondskin, Vintage Performance Motoring, Levy Racing and Breeze over the next few months. Somewhere along the way, we'll order a kit from FFR.
Mark Dougherty (the travelling builder) will be getting a visit from both of us for a week to do the LHD to RHD conversion and essentially spend the week at "build school" on our own car. We'll organise that once we've paid for everything else...
Let the fun begin.
Martin
ps. My head hurts from over thinking this for the last few years. Really looking forward to scraping my knuckles and getting on with it.
The cliff notes build plan:
MK4 Roadster, standard width, built to run like a 400HP Lotus Elise
Everything under the body - geared towards a rock solid street car that can cope with trips out for extended track days and trips across the ditch to the Nurburgring
Everything visible - authentic enough that the person who knows nothing thinks it is authentic
Fast Freddie Fabrications gets an order tonight, then Lodestone, FFMetal, Whitby's, Forte's, ISIS, Secondskin, Vintage Performance Motoring, Levy Racing and Breeze over the next few months. Somewhere along the way, we'll order a kit from FFR.
Mark Dougherty (the travelling builder) will be getting a visit from both of us for a week to do the LHD to RHD conversion and essentially spend the week at "build school" on our own car. We'll organise that once we've paid for everything else...
Let the fun begin.
Martin
ps. My head hurts from over thinking this for the last few years. Really looking forward to scraping my knuckles and getting on with it.