A Caterham Seven Blog
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200,000 YouTube Views!
Post Views: 1,189 So I haven’t posted a great deal on here recently… As some of you may have noticed we’ve not been able to get out much, and that has affected what I’ve been able to do with the car. As we sit here today, in March of 2021, the car actually has no…
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Site Move
Post Views: 494 Just a quicky to say that I moved away from the hosting service that this website has been running on for the past few years. It’s now hosted on AWS using Lightsail. Let me know if you see any glitches with the site and I’ll take a look. Hopefully it should be…
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YouTube Novice Trackday
Post Views: 1,427 Today I finally got to posting my 2018 and 2019 track day experiences as a YouTube video. I’d recorded quite a lot of video at the Rockingham 2018 L7C Novices Trackday, but hadn’t got around to turning it into something fit to be published. After the unexpected success of the build video…
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Purplemeanie on The Express Website
Post Views: 1,003 A quick post to say I got a mention in an article posted to the Express Website: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1362578/classic-kit-car-restoration-vehicle-build-garage The journalist, Luke Chillingsworth, had spotted my build video on YouTube and contacted me for a few comments. The conversation resulted in the article. Here’s a couple of shots from the article.
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Purplemeanie Site Theme Update
Post Views: 576 After 3 years of using one of WordPress’ older themes, I thought I’d give a newer theme a whirl. From today I’ve switch to the Twenty Twenty theme which is much more mobile friendly and has an integrated search function. Search Probably the biggest win from this update is the inclusion of…
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Build A Caterham 420R in 30 Minutes – YouTube Video
YouTube timelapse post condensing the Caterham 420R kit build into a 30-minute video, with the build archive and transcript context.
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Some People Must Be Watching – Site Stats 60k Views
Post Views: 571 As we approach 3 years since out kit arrived I thought it would be interesting to share some stats on this website. I created the site for two reasons. Firstly, it was to give something back. I’d looked at many build blogs and learnt so much from them. And I wanted to…
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Softbits for Sevens Boot Cover & G-clamp Hack
Post Views: 1,409 Note from Future John: The following post is a better way of doing this… Well, one thing led to another! So… for a while now, like many, I’d ditched the Caterham full-hood and have been using the Softbits for Sevens Half Hood (https://www.softbitsshop.co.uk/the-half-hood-8-c.asp). The half-hood is great, perhaps not as water tight…
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Lowflying Article – If Only Caterhams Could Talk, June/July 2020
Background post for the Lowflying article that adapted the Caterham ECU diagnostics work into a broader explanation of CAN bus and MBE diagnostic data.
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Driving Clifton Suspension Bridge – YouTube Video
Post Views: 1,016 This is a quicky… The weather was good and we were coming out of lockdown, so decided to get the car out for its first small run of the year. The Video I took a much longer run to get fuel and out from Bristol to Leigh Woods, Failand and then back…
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