Posts

Showing posts from January, 2021

So near, but yet, so far....

Image
 So my chassis is built. Neil has been kind enough to post a picture of it.  (It's also coming with ARB bosses - which is nice!) I believe all my other pieces are ready to go - bodywork, and all the interior componentry, wheels, tyres, etc to build the car. The missing piece, unfortunately, is the donor. MK use a local college to break donors for them, and of course, the donor is in Lockdown. At this rate, it feels as if I'll be lucky to get the car before easter. Grumble grumble. It's a first world problem I know. One option I have would be to source my own donor and break it but there are a few problems with this. There are not a lot of decent donor cars around at the moment. I really don't have the room for an MX5 in the garage, especially once I start taking pieces off it, and working outside doesn't really appeal for the next couple of months. Not sure I'd be too popular with my neighbours attacking a broken car with a noisy impact gun late at night which i