The Donor Car

Well I have looked into the Kit Car industry much more since my last post and found that any Sierra model is currently quite hard to find. However, Mazda MX5s are on the up for kit cars and I decided that I would purchase one for my donor! So, Friday 5th October, I found one, and snapped it up. MOT and well looked after. Would be perfect. A 1990 MK1 Eunos Roadster 1.6 Japenese Import. 111K miles on the clock.

Overall, I very nice purchase for a very nicely reduced price (good bargaining skills you see). However, the previous owner was apparently livid that it was going to be broken for parts, and rightly so, I will probably feel the same when the day finaly comes, but keeping my eyes on the prize, I know I will have the strength to do it!

Anyway, MX5 taxed and insured for 2 months, and we're good to go!

The Background Story

Hello everyone who may be even vaguely interested in reading this. As you will probably know or have guessed, my name is Zach and I am planning to build myself a Kit Car.

This ambition was something that probably came out of a track day a few years ago where a friend invited my Dad and I along for a few passenger rides. Since witnessing the simplicity (using the term loosely) and the performance of such a machine I started thinking about one day, owning one myself.

I am currently on placement from studying Motorsport Engineering at Coventry University, taking place at LH in Barton-under-Needwood. From this I have realised and planned that a dream I thought to be decade in the future could be realistically achieved (financially at least) whilst on placement spending evenings and weekends working on it. My plan, is to have the car built and IVA'd by the summer of 2013. I have since found this to be an ambitious time frame for a part time builder but nonetheless, the plan is there.