Category: Servicing and Setup
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Putting the EV in sEVen – Introduction
And so it begins… We at the Purplemeanie HQ are quite into the whole eco-mentalist thing, with just about “electric everything” – solar PV, battery for solar, EV car, immersion heater solar overflow etc. So, a petrol Seven has sort of grated on my soul for a while. My 420R is something I’ve always wanted…
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2021 Cadwell Park Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes
Aaaannnddd… Here’s another quick behind the scenes post about making my second Lotus Seven Club track day introduction video. If you want some background on what this is all about then this post has it all ( 2021 Castle Combe Track Day INTRO – Lotus Seven Club YouTube Video ), and so I won’t repeat…
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2021 Castle Combe Track Day – YouTube Behind the Scenes
When I joined the Lotus Seven Club leadership team as Social Video lead, one of the tasks I took on was to create introduction videos for the club’s Track Day program. Each year the Lotus Seven Club puts on 8 to 10 track days around various circuits in the UK. There’s a mixture of novices…
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An Evening With Caterham Cars, Lotus Seven Club YouTube Video
Well… I just had to volunteer, didn’t I 😂 As many of you will know, I’m a member of the Lotus Seven Club (lotus7.club) and have recently joined the leadership team with the role of looking after Social Video. This is a digital media role which at the moment is mainly focused on making YouTube…
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200,000 YouTube Views!
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 MOT and is…
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Site Move
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 a lot faster…
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YouTube Novice Trackday
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 I was looking…
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Purplemeanie on The Express Website
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
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 an integrated search…
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Build A Caterham 420R in 30 Minutes – YouTube Video
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 build in December…