I got as far buying a donor car and was about to order a pre cut chassis at which point the neighbour's garage I was planning to use for the build ceased to be available. My own garage sandwiched precariously in a tiny gap between my 1920's Southend semi and its neighbour is woefully several inches too narrow to even get a Roadster chassis in with it's wishbones on.
A lightly damaged MK Indy came up on Ebay that looked practical so I sold the donor car to another Roadster builder and went the repair and restore route instead. Of all the kits, the MK is the most similar to the Haynes as the same man, Martin Keenan, did much of the design work on both. To date it has worked out at very much the same cost as building a Haynes and though i didnt build it there is some satisfaction in pulling something apart to rebuild it better than it was before.
I go on the Locost Builders forum a bit but it's surprising the large budgets that many over there spend on their builds. Here on the Haynes forum it's all much more on an affordable scale - it's not about cutting corners and doing things on the cheap but doing things as well as they can be done, making as much as can be made and then spending only the money that really needs to be spent.
If the space became available in the fuiture I would either build a Haynes or a GBS Zero.
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