For anyone unfamiliar with the Haynes Roadster, it is a self-build sportscar designed by Chris Gibbs and published as a book of plans by Haynes. The idea is to build the car from scratch, but a whole industry has sprang up selling everything from a set of bolts to a completed car. Along with this is a dedicated forum designed for the discussion of roadster related topics. Anyone considering building a roadster, and in fact any kit car, should pay it a visit to see how helpful people can really be :- www.haynes.co.uk/forum
I cheated and bought a completed chassis, along with everything required from the donor car ande various other parts from a bloke who had started the project and had to quit halfway through.
Anyway, the current state of affairs is I have a chassis finished in grey primer up on trestles in my garage along with loads and loads of other bits. My garage still needs a fair bit of tidying, but work will be beginning very soon.
Thanks to Andy, a forum member, who has loads of experience with all things roadster, I now know where to begin my build. He called around today, despite living some 30 miles away, and give my chassis the once over, pointing out some minor problems, and even volunteering his services to help put them right.
Here is a picture of my current garage situation, and hopefully by next blog things will have changed a bit.
