Category: Caterham Blog
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Pre-build Update #3 – Specification Set, Garage Finished and Line Drawings
Post Views: 1,390 Purplemeanie Specification Set This week we had a couple of trips over to the Williams car showroom. The first trip was to confirm the final specification of the car. We ended up with the following: 420 (2-litre Ford Duratec engine tuned to 210bhp) R-spec (track specification) Series 5 (Wider bodied SV) Lowered Floors…
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Pre-build Update #2 – More Garage Prep and a Car in The Space
Post Views: 1,116 It’s a quick update on the garage work this week: painting, lighting, the floor and some idea of what space is available for the build. Painting This week we completed the painting of the walls and ceiling, see Update 1 for more info on that. In total I think this modest 16m2…
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Pre-build Update #1 – Build Space
Post Views: 1,630 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…
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Socialising the Purplemeanie Kit Car Build
Post Views: 1,122 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.
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Render Me A Colour
Post Views: 1,300 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…