Always had an interest in engineering things from my dad - used to do the headgasket by myself regulalrly on my sisters 1300 Skoda at the age of 12. Dad would never get a 'tradesman' to do anything so learnt lots from bodging back together various crappy cars on the drive (always remember using my skateboard to get the gearbox out of a Lada!)
Went on to work as a volunteer/staff on a steam railway for years. Also started doing my own model engineering and built my CNC machines up.
At uni I was heavily invovled in uni race team, which was great as you got to spend lots of someone elses money. I stayed on in uni doing my doctorate and acted as an advisor to the team. Soon realised that the way we had been going about things was wrong - it's no about high tech and fancy, it's about simple and lightweight. It was then that I decided that I would build my own car - do it my way, the way I want. I'd had the tiger and locost book sat on the shelf for a few years.
Then at the beginning of last year I found myself working away from home for 3 months (not a million miles from Saturn before they started up!). You can guess how it goes, browse the net, found the roadster book, pop down to borders to buy a copy. Before you knew it I was hooked - a car you could build everything yourself (I really wanted to build my own chassis) and I could make it mine. A quick look around on the net and found a big garage for rent - phone call to a mate who has an MGB and the deal was done. Also discovered that Armoto was on my drive home so picked the chassis kit up in my company car. So everything really fell into the right place at the right time!
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