Year: 2017
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Email 1 – Caterham (Derek) : Shortages, Bellhousing and IVA Trim Questions
Post Views: 1,063 Here’s the first, and hopefully only (you’ve gotta think positively haven’t you) email and answers in-line, to Caterham’s chief fixer, Derek. I called him a couple of times on the Monday morning but the poor guy was only just back from a week off so I was only really calling on the…
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Build Session 2 : Engine, Gearbox and Bell Housing
Post Views: 1,556 Day 2: front suspension day… or so we thought. First thing Sunday, while I waited for Harry to “wake up”, as he sat watching the football on the TV, I decided we needed the better bodywork protection I’d been thinking about the day before. So, I took one of the spare Caterham…
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Build Session 1 : IVA trim and Steering Rack
Post Views: 1,470 And so we’re off and running…. sort of! Saturday morning broke and I was hoping to get a full day’s build in, but of course, things didn’t go to that plan. We ended up doing a bunch of chores around the house, and garden, and didn’t get off to a great start…
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Our Kit Car Has Arrived
Post Views: 1,261 After 151 days since putting in our order, the Purplemeanie Caterham 420R Kit Car has arrived! We got final confirmation of a delivery date earlier this week and a courtesy call from Caterham yesterday confirmed that they would deliver our car before lunch time today… … And at just after 11 this…
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Pre-build Update #6 – Delays but now “in build”
Post Views: 1,091 Breaking news: The Purplemeanie 420R is now “in build”. Caterham have updated their online systems to show that the car is now being built. Delivery is still likely to be end of July or early August. For those of you that have been asking… the Caterham 420R kit car delivery date is…