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A New Chapter for Caterham -- Dartford X Dura

I Got Trusted With the ONLY Example of the NEW Westfield.... I Spun It. Twice.

Probably too costly for mass market manufacturer like Caterham to put in but I'd love to know what it's priced individually Exhaust is on the proper side for Zetec even. I'd sell all the superchargers in a second for this platform

Some of us witnessed this actually happening live

@Oliver how can inquiring minds proceed to purchase these, especially in bicolor as attractive option.

Got to a 7s track day, max it out and then repeat that number. I tell people I run out of gearing at 125

These don't come up often and I'm not sure if the seller is even willing to ship to states but worth pursuing for somebody who's in need of these for primary or secondary set Even if seller doesn't ship directly Chris at Redline has been very helpful in the past to be a middle man for a small fee to UK sellers who don't want to ship stateside. https://ebay.us/m/UWzhFy

To the people who already know that I own it, I refer to it as a "toy car". To those who want to know the origin of what is it. I tell them it's a continuation of an old Lotus and for sake of argument I tell them it's the 7th one designed and made.

@CBuff I think you have typo there, you typed 9 twice... 378 miles here for a year here with the 2 track days accounting for a ballpark 200 of them with a total of 5842 on the odo

Edit. Quick mockup. I like both of these Double edit: these photos aren't an actual product colors but an AI mockup. Ask @Oliverfor real product references

I did some brief mockups and I came to some conclusions. If I I were to ever mount it on the car it won't look good bicolor but for a wall it would be preferred. Maybe I'll put order for multiple units or find a way to have them on separate circuits. For a wall I'd like the 7 in white and outside in red. But I don't like how it looks on the car itself. I am a fan of just the 7 being in color on a car either red or white when turned on with LED Reference @Slonie here's old setup with high mount headlights. I think those were 7in too. I have swapped to low mount 5 3/4 since then and usually have the cozies on until I can't see at night but yeah they are LED under. Tests

See here, owner replied

Hi Oliver, Thank you for joining the thread and for providing an update. I wanted to mention that it was me that reached out previously with the group buy question. I think we can disregard that entirely at this point and just have people buy individually as they desire. As a follow-up, I was also wondering if you might have any sample photos showing a red/white color combination, in either orientation (red outside/white inside or vice versa). 2 footer certainly sounds temping too..

Yeah that's oliver at 5gs... I've actually been trying to setup a group buy and get prices from him and color options. He stopped responding. What's the cost on one of these shipped?

Is this from Oliver at 5G's? He stopped replying to me when I was trying to get one

Maybe that without crashed history. However as somebody who's bought too many of these types of cars there's a very wrong mentality that cheaper cars are going to be cheaper in the end of repairs and a full value car can't be afforded so this is the only option. When in truth that's like buying toilet paper one roll at a time instead of in bulk. If you can afford bulk, you're often better off and the poor get punished with more expensive costs which is ironic. In many cases this $20k value car will end up costing $30k. (For the sake of argument) That's not counting opportunity cost of having a non running car for years, all calls and part sourcing and dozens of hours of labor.

Beauty! Congrats!

Can't win them all! Car is away for winter. Can't take more pictures. Editing old ones with AI out of boredom.. Merry Xmas

Some AI fun

Budget, location, preferences...

Got them and very happy with them despite the price. I thought of it the same way as tires. Even at the face value the benefit they provide is much cheaper than alternative of a crash or being hit. Their price is probably cheaper than most deductibles. Plus they look good. All the people passing me on NJMP 7s day can attest to brightness.

Glad you're narrowing the parameters down. Didn't realize Maverick is either 2k or 4k weight, I thought it would be 5k all day long. One more thing to ponder on, which I didn't even realize and don't really follow at this time. When you're doing marginal towing like your planning to, trailer sway control help can be purchased via most weight distribution hitch attachments. Pretty expensive purchase but it helps your car stay level and helps with trailer sway. Accident is much more expensive than the unit. With that said, here's the caveat. You aren't supposed to use these on aluminum trailers officially. Aluminum won't transfer torsion forces as well as steel. I didn't realize this. I still have one as a backup if things get hairy, I'd rather have marginal torsion problem than a lose trailer problem but I certainly don't use these by default at this moment. Also dont rule out SUV's if that fits better with your year round use. If you don't need a bed, many SUVs have 5000lbs plus capacity even in unibody.

Are you also parting or selling as a set only? I understand the preference to sell as a set but it narrows the pool of interested parties considerably, especially combined with preferred local pickup. With that said, $600 is a great price for all of this to go.

Full disclosure: Miata above is for funnies. I believe the source of the image said its AI, and even if it isn't, its likely just a Miata just backed up to a trailer for a staged photo. For the @savagete2860 on a serious note. I'm an overthinker like you. I tell myself why bother doing something if it isn't the optimal path and then have regrets and/or have to redo stuff. Smartest way to go is just to plan it right and do it once. I planned for YEARS to be towing that big enclosed 18ft aluminum trailer above with my Volvo XC70 Wagon. I custom wired 7pin harness, I bought the rare 2in towing hitch for it, I bought weight distribution hitch, spring helpers etc. The car has a limit of 3500 with a hard tongue weight limit of 165 lbs, which as you can imagine really conflicts with the 10% rule. All the mods I've done were unrelated but were going to help with towing. R Brembo brakes help stop with trailer, 6 speed manual helps solve issues of automatic overheating, R motor helps with moving the weight around. In the end the project took so long that our family ended up acquiring the XC90 SUV which has a limit of 5000 and can actually to trailer just fine. I can still likely use the XC70 to move the empty trailer around as needed but I hope I don't have to find out how capable or not the under built XC70 is for that job. (I've towed smaller open trailers with it just fine and a smaller enclosed with motorcycles). In short, my advice for vehicle is anything thats 5000lbs should suffice unless you plan to have a steel enclosed. For trailer sizing I still recommend enclosed if budget allows and you're best asking around for best size. V nose help add some room and makes towing easier.

pricing?