Hi all,
Just back from a visit to the home of Great British Sports Cars in Notts to look around the factory and wish the guy's good luck in their new business.
Also managed to pick up a few bargains in the form of a new loom and some new seat harness's.

The fitting of the loom will,I hope, be next week after the mods to beef up the rear belt mounts and the roll hoop.

The car you can see me sitting on is a lightweight just like mine but in yellow.

I also bought a windscreen to stop the fly's hitting me in the face when we drive the car as its hard to get them me off as I'm dry clean only!!!

Thats me at the autojumble looking for bargains sitting on the rear of another lightweight car.

Our next job is to complete the installation of the engine and to test run it to ensure its ok.



The ignition system will have to be built . This is spencers job as he knows someone at nasa who is gonna help him. Its a megajoltlite system and needs a trigger wheel fitted to the crankshaft which i did before fitting the engine into the bay.









We hope to do this soon but need the rest of the fuel system in place and also the alternator needs to be bought.

Once this is running ok we can move onto the next stage in the build.

'' Just when you think its going well is when it all goes wrong'' said Spencer to me today when we heard the news about another car company going into admin. This is very sad but sometimes can't be helped.
Well at lease we don't have that to worry about as all is well at Baxter automobile and design.
So onto the build and Spencer is working on some new designs for the extra strengthening we are adding to the chassis to increase over all strength.




As you can see from the pics i'm using the welder to fix a few bits of metal to other bits of metal!!
Its a great tool, but one i'm not very good with so i think i'll let spencer do the rest.

Well you know how thing are when you are on holiday..... You don't want to come home!!!!
So Spencer and myself decided to stay on for a few extra weeks.
But now we are back and are straight back into the build of our new car.

Hi , just a quick note to let you all know that spencer and myself will be away for the next 2 weeks.
We will be taking our annual break at a private clinic in switzerland to recharge our batteries so see you when we are back!!

Here we are taking a well earned tea break and Gasket pops in to see how we are.

Its good of him to take time off from winning races to check up on our progress.

I feel I should reply to some of the silly comments posted by some people earlier about Gasket. He is not a donkey, but a race horse who has won lots of races .

The last race he won was at brands hatch, when he was riding a motorbike , so there!!!

This is the exhaust manifold Spencer made.

Its job is to carry away exhaust gases to the silencer, which runs down the drivers side of the car.

He made it from stainless steel so it will look good as well!!

This will help the engine to run well and produce lots of power,we are looking for around 125 bhp which should be reachable with this cam,carb,head and exhaust setup.

Here we are again and you can see me test fitting a coolant hose, This will carry coolant from the engine to the radiator where it is cooled down before it goes back into the engine via another hose.



Spencer is checking the condition of the front suspension rivets as these need to be very strong to hold the wishbones on. Don't worry all is ok.

Spencer made this exhaust manifold for the engine out of stainless steel and it fits very well indeed!
He's very good at welding and can make all manor of things.

But its always hard to tell twins apart.
Spencer says these are the dogs danglelys, but I don't know what he means? Since he came back from NASA he talking strangely. I think its to do with watching a film called Miami vice.

We are test fitting the carbs now. We need to see if they will fit correctly under the bonnet .

They look like they will fit ok but its a close thing

These are twin delorto carbs,and are giving us some problems as we can't tell them apart!

Have managed to fit the clutch cable at last and also the bearing for the steering column

This is a special bearing and fits neatly to the front bulkhead.We still have to complete the pedal box but need to have the brake pipes in place to do this.

As I'm the owner of a car manufacturing business I thought it best to invest some of the company profits in other areas, so I bought a race horse and this is him.
He's called Gasket.

Spencer is also showing you where you put your paws to work the pedals.


Hi I havent post for a while as spencer has been away doing his day job( he works for NASA), but he's back now and things can move on!!

We have been working on the pedals and have fitted the brake,clutch and throttle.

You can see me bolting them in and if you look carefully you might see spencer underneath holding a spanner.

Hi,we had some trouble with the wheels to day,so you can see I'm under the rear of the car looking into it.Thats the drive shaft and rear hub and I'm tightening the bottom wishbone bolts.You can also see the rear shock absorber with the green spring.I hope to change these shockers as green is not a fast colour and my car is going to be fast!!!

Spencer told me that we have a major problem with the fuel tanks. He says that it will take all of his engineering skills to solve it. The fuel tank is at the rear of the car behind the seats. We hope to have a twin tank arrangement,with two separate tanks and two filler necks but this is the problem.Getting this set up correctly will cost a lot as the filler necks and pumps and pipes are all very expensive!! Our budget is all ready streached to the limit and close to breaking!!

Never mind I'll just have to come up with some way of getting the extra, I might have to sell Spencer on eBay!!!

JUST JOKING!!!!

The top picture shows us looking where the propshaft should fit,but some idiot got given the wrong one and it won't fit!!

I'm not very happy about this as it delays the build a little but its not the biggest problem to date so I will return the prop and have one made up specially for me.

These pictures show us fitting the engine into the car.It was very hard to fit it correctly and took us all day.

You can see in one picture that i fell into the engine bay,but dont worry i'm ok!!

Spencer has been working very hard and it was a very hot day,but he didnt take his scarf off all day!!

Spencer knows a lot about cars and told me that we have to talk to the engine if we want it to work correctly,so in one picture you can see me talking to it.I have to be honest and say that its not a great talker but we got on in the end.At one point spencer and myself sang a song to it.We sang a song by queens of the stone age called no one knows and i think it liked it.


Later we will be fixing the rear wheels

I have now fitted the front and rear suspension and we now have a rolling chassis.One of the pictures shows the engine that i will fit to the car.
It has been completely overhauled,with new shells and rings and also a new oil pump. The cylinder head has new valves which have been rimflowed and a fast road cam.

I am also making a ignition system call a mega-jolt to replace the standard distributor so i can have a wasted spark system.

The top picture shows me and my friends pearl and portia, they are my cats but for the picture they are wearing dog suits!!

These pics show my garage and the small space i have to work in,so its lucky spencer and me are small!!!

This shows the front suspension partly built up.I dont like the dampers and hope to change them soon for some high quailty items.

This shows me and my best friend spencer (he is sitting in the fruit bowl)

Spencer is helping me to build the car,and helps with lifting the heavy stuff,like spanners as he is very strong.

I also have the use of a monkey for some other jobs.

Also in this set of pics you can see the chassis almost build up.The diff is going in to the rear and then the rear body work is built around it.

zoom zoom mk1

This is me building zoom zoom mk1.
It took me ages to finish it but when it was done it was the fastest car on the block!!
The next car i will build is called zoom zoom mk2 and will be a little bigger and also a little faster.
i am going to build a kit car called a robin hood lightweight, it is made from aluminum panels riveted together much like in aircraft construction.