From a wish to reality. The build begins

Delayed by traffic on the day and taking into account the fact that I was helping move my step-daughter and her family into her new home in Grantham on the day of the collection of the kit from MEV in Mansfield, it was very late on December 12th when I arrived in the MEV car park.

Stuart Mills had offered to stay late so I could collect the kit with my car and trailer.

I did not get time to take many pictures, but the chassis is pictured left in the MEV workshops.

 

Stuart always puts you at ease with everything, and soon we had all the bits in the trailer and in the back of my Seat Leon, allowing me to chug down the M1 in the "Going Home" traffic.

 

Everything was transferred to the garage in double quick time, and all of a sudden the reality of what we were embarking upon struck me.

 

With new and donor parts stored all around the house, the arrival of the chassis late in the evening Dec12th marked a the passing of one of our project milestones.

 

With Molly (yes she has a name) safely installed in the now pretty much empty garage, it was time to bring together the bulk of her component parts for her first photo shoot.

 

It was a bit like Santa arrived early for Christmas with all of the parts, including my son posing on the drive.

Within 10 minutes, the wife of one of my neighbours came by and said "don't let my husband see that, he use to have a Caterham, BUT HE HAD TO GET RID OF IT".

 

Yes, you guessed. Ten minutes later he was down having a look and offering to help build Molly. Do you know, when his wife went away he said, " She made me get rid of my Caterham years ago". Can you believe that folks.

 

Anyway, molly is living in the garage, where we are bringing her to life. Updates on progress soon.