The Basic Building Block

The Rocket chassis is a sturdy structure which is gradually evolving with minor tweaks by Stuart Mills. The roll bar and stays give the final vehicle a more sporting appearance and set the car up well for any trackday activities you may be contemplating.

Aaron likens the chassis to a cage for holding fresh air together.

Anyway, with what appears to be easy access for pretty much everything we will end up bolting to it, the chassis seems well thought out and solid enough to withstand assault from all directions, but I don't want to be the first to find out if that thinking is flawed.

From the outset, we will be wrapping a lot of the chassis with protective padding for most of the build time, to reduce the chance of damage to the silver/grey powder coating.

Whilst we have elected to go with a relatively straightforward colour scheme, it will be fantastic to see the range of colours that do find their way onto Rockets in the months and years to come.

With the trickery that computers can give us, with a little bit of Photoshop airbrush work and some cut and paste of various sections of the original chassis, this stunning green chassis would look the "dogs danglies" with black panels.

I actually resisted going down the Red gel coat panel route, when we could not decide on colours for the seats we will use. We were considering using Spyker orange and silver seats until we fully appreciated some of the space constraints of the chassis, and found that these items would not fit.