Welcome to the Purplemeanie build blog of our Caterham 420R. We hope you enjoy our trials and tribulations during and after the build. Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think.
Where to Start
The latest project from the Purplemeanie HQ is to have a go at converting a Seven to be an electric vehicle (EV). Follow the project here.
For my most popular video take a look at “Build a Caterham 420R in 30 minutes”
For more reading…
- If you want join us on the journey from the beginning then take a look at this post: Build Blog Index
- If you’d like to see a bit about us then please take a look at our About page.
- If you just want to skip to the latest news then take a look at the Blog.
- We’ve also put a Gallery together if that’s your thing.
- If videos are your thing then take a look at what we’ve posted to YouTube: YouTube Videos
- If my ramblings aren’t enough for you then you can find a whole different bunch of other blogs in this post here.
- … and some might like to jump to my tools and trinkets here.
Latest Posts
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Day 31 – Dubrovnik
Post Views: 26 Phew… that was a day in the heat! But wow! – Dubrovnik! We’d decided last night that we wanted to do the Dubrovnik Old Town Historical Tour. So we’d booked for the 10 o’clock tour hoping to keep out of the blistering heat later in the day…. We were partially successful. We…
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Day 30 – Trogir to Dubrovnik
Post Views: 25 Another travel day today. 250km to cover. We have a space pre-booked at the Solitudo Camp Site in Durbrovnik, the only camp site, that we could see, in the town. There was no particular rush to get packed and on the road, so Sue went for a double whammy… an early morning…
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Day 29 – Trogir
Post Views: 24 A quiet day again today, though we headed into Trogir on the 8am ferry for an early mooch around and some breakfast. It was a hot night again with temperatures only dipping into the 20’s late in the night. And the idiot behind us decided it would be a good idea to…
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Day 28 – Bike Ride on Ciovo
Post Views: 25 End of week 4… 4 weeks away! Because of the heat, at least that’s how it feels to us, we’ve had a quiet day, just cycling out to a quiet cove for a dip, first thing. The temps are still in the mid 30’s during the day, so we decided to make…
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Day 27 – Trogir
Post Views: 6 First full day on the island of Ciovo and we decided to take the ferry to Trogir. We’d both had a very hot and sweaty night last night. Temperatures stayed in the high 20’s until around 3am, so we were both very glad of our swamp-cooler fans… Water goes in the top…