Category: Caterham Blog

  • 200,000 YouTube Views!

    200,000 YouTube Views!

    Post Views: 1,128 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…

  • YouTube Novice Trackday

    YouTube Novice Trackday

    Post Views: 1,413 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…

  • Purplemeanie on The Express Website

    Purplemeanie on The Express Website

    Post Views: 991 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.

  • Build A Caterham 420R in 30 Minutes – YouTube Video

    Build A Caterham 420R in 30 Minutes – YouTube Video

    Post Views: 2,225 On July 11th 2020, I uploaded a bit of a longer video to YouTube documenting the build of my 420R from nearly 3 years previously. I’d always planned to do this video, but for the usual many reasons it only got a few hours here and a few hours there since finishing the…

  • Softbits for Sevens Boot Cover & G-clamp Hack

    Softbits for Sevens Boot Cover & G-clamp Hack

    Post Views: 1,226 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…