Well it’s been a few weeks and there have some pretty good things happen since last time.

The main one being my birthday – and Ellie bought me a whole host of top notch tools ready to get started on the car!  I’m now the proud owner of an Impact wrench, angle grinder, Dremel multi-tool and most of all……a superb air compressor to drive air powered tools!  Doesn’t get much more manly that that !!!

The next cool thing was that this morning (well, this evening after I got home from work actually) I got a letter from Nick who’s the chap building the main kit car body with some pictures of the body mocked up showing the modifications – and it looks absolutely brilliant so really pleased with that. I’m going to give him a call tomorrow to confirm and that (hopefully!) will be the end of me messing him about and he can get it all finished and delivered :)

With that in mind, the next step is for me start stripping the donor car down and that should hopefully be Sunday as Ellie is taking the kids to a birthday party and therefore I’ve got a few hours off.  First thing to do is to remove the passenger seatbelt and also one of the rear passenger seatbelts as I need to get these to Nick so he can finalise the position of the seatbelt mounts on the rollcage.

Up until this afternoon I was still hesitant about starting to break the donor down as I was enjoying driving it around from time to time, but today I realised that in practice I was just driving round in a car with a slightly shabby interior and not the most comfortable seats in the world – as opposed to my usual car which is fantastic by comparison! So I’m now more than happy to get the stripping underway.

I spent a bit of time checking on ebay recently to see what bits I won’t be keeping could sell and bring me a bit of money. Sadly most of the parts – including entire doors and even the carpets and headlining would only raise about £4.50 in total so that plans gone and I’ll sadly just be binning all the leftovers. The only exception is the switch that controls the passenger electric seat – remarkably this is worth £45 for some reason!

Right, hopefully I’ll report back with more info in the next couple of days as things get underway……very very excited!