First post - 6 weeks to go........

A Long, long time ago, in a galaxy far far away (well, Oxford in about y2k)..........

Claire (my girlfriend - aka swmbo) and I started getting into the idea of building a kit car after the departure of our Mini 1275 GT to the great scrapyard in the sky. We were further egged on by Claire's dad Ron, who was interested in building a GT40 replica (until he saw the costs!) and visiting loads of shows, so we tagged along as well.

After we finished Uni, we decided we were going to go ahead and build one. Over the years we had looked at Tiger, Dax, F27, MK, Luego and Mac #1, but without the money to go ahead and buy one.... 3 years ago however, we took the first plunge and bought ourselves a 2.0 litre sierra sapphire, E reg, from Ebay for 99 quid. We drove about 200 miles each way to collect it, then the next day started taking bits off it.

A house purchase got in the way slightly, and we ended up moving the Sierra, half of it in boxes, to our new home (and nice big garage), where it got in the way for about 18 months....

Fast-forward slightly to today, and all the useful bits (at least I hope all the useful bits) are in the garage, the body shell has been cut into small pieces and recycled, and the kit car is on order!

After recommendations from other users at locostbuilders, we looked at the MNR VortX kit, and went up to North Yorks to meet Marc and Chris Nordon (and Bob and Lulu the dogs), and were taken out by Marc's friend and customer Iain in his rover V8 powered beastie. The car is going to be a VortX RT with inboard suspension, in Ruby Red, with black wheelarch inserts. It's going to be powered by the 2 litre Pinto out of the sierra, but Marc's going to build the chassis to accept a bike engine, for a future upgrade once we've learned how to drive it....

It's been about 7 years coming, and now there's six weeks to go until it arrives, there's too much to do!! Over the coming weeks we'll be cleaning and servicing donor bits and getting the garage ready to take Ruby...