A Caterham Seven Blog

  • Pre-build Update #1 – Build Space

    Posting Update Before the build starts in earnest we’re hoping to be posting Blog articles weekly, probably on a Sunday. Also, in addition to full weekly posts on this blog we’ll also be pushing new post links to Twitter and to Facebook to let people know when posts have happened. If you want to get notifications of new posts…

  • Socialising the Purplemeanie Kit Car Build

    The Purplemeanie Engineering Team are building a kit car this summer. Get updates on Twitter, Facebook and on the Build Blog at www.purplemeanie.co.uk.

  • Render Me A Colour

    Colour… the Biggy. It would almost be better if Henry Ford made Caterhams – any colour as long as its black. There are so many great Caterham colours. There’s the classic green, or the recently more popular Porsche blue. There’s yellows and reds. Decals. Single, double or triple stripes. The options are endless.Initial thinking was,…

  • To Blog or not to Blog

    Before getting into this build I had only partially been aware of the Blog culture of building a Caterham… both with formal blogs and in some cases with forum posts in a thread. But having taken the plunge it’s clear there are some great blogs out there. Here are some of the ones I’ve come…

  • First Pass of the Build Manual

    Ok, so today I had a ten and a half hour flight to Los Angeles from London. There wasn’t much for it but to read the build manual cover to cover. I ended up, reading 2015 V2, which Williams later confirmed as the latest available. I spent the flight trying to digest everything and understand…

Got any book recommendations?