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samwillis · 2022-02-09 · Original thread
About 15 min into the video and its giving be strong memories of a book I was given as a kid:

"Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250" by Ron Champion

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Your-Sports-Little-£250/dp/08...

It includes all plans and instructions on how to build a Lotus 7 style car from scratch using a Ford Escort Mk 3 as the donor car.

Always dreamt of one day doing it.

I believe it created a whole mini industry of workshops manufacturing components for amateurs to buy if they wanted to skip a step. There was/is a racing series for them too.

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