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    There was enough built to keep us plenty occupied.
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    Soon enough we made our way around to my car. meet the builder and spent an easy hour talking about the build and process.
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    Not sure how I didn’t take a single photo while at the paint department but we spent a good bit of time at paint. I arrived about the same time they had a good bit going on all at different stages. learned a ton about the in house prep, paint and polish process.
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    Continuing around counterclockwise, passed through engineering, and saw a few customer cars, and the intake area / finishing & testing bay.
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    My son had the opportunity to sit in the Caterham F1 car. im a big admirer of the leather wrapped rollbar. Looking at the rolled aluminum panels wrapped around the frame caught us for a few moments
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    Landed Heathrow at 6am and made our way over to Dartford. Had a bit of a bite at Lakeview 360. And when it was time, walked our way about 20 mins to the factory.
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    I had the pleasure of visiting my car today at about 80 hours into the 110 hour build. Rob B offered an in depth tour and interview with a few of the various departments. Also spent nearly an hour with my car’s builder. I was blessed to have my son with me as well making the trip more memorable. Headed up to visit Ian at Celtic Caterham to slip into one of his rentals l, then on to knockhill for a weekend of Caterham racing.
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    Got the update today that the folks at Caerbont Automotive have begun the gauge engineering. Speedometer , tachometer, Coolant temp, Fuel gauge, Oil Press Dial Color: Cirrus white. pointer color: orange style: telematics
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    Ok. So October event id definitely not going to work let’s hope I can join next year.
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    Im cutting it close. My car is in Assymbkly now. Expected to be finished by end of next week. How long would you all think shipping and delievry will be once the car is completed?
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    That looks great!
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    While i am thinking of it, The folks over at Caerbont Instruments have my spec guages schedule for engineering at the end of August. Next Friday Im schedule to take the factory tour where Ill see my car ~ 80% assembled, im told Piece by piece the car will come together....
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    That looks great! I never asked about color or materials. There were headwinds orginally getting teh 10" at all. With the file setup however, I think asking that now would go a lot smoother. Id ave liked a colored piece in the center top if I had to do it again. Robert
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    Recieved my Moto-Lita Wheel today!. Folks were amazing to work with. shipping was only three days from UK. The car starts its assymbly next week! and should be complete by august 20th!
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    Congratulation. I was an earlier bidder, but not surprisingly, went out of budget quickly.
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    hi. I believe this will be a one off. If you’re interested I am happy to connect you with the folks helping me with this. robert
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    Happy to share I was able to solve the Smith guages as well this week. Ended up with: FET3-1B52-36C TACHO 8KRPM CATERHAM $254.44 FES3-1B52-38C 160MPH CATERHAM SMIT $346.13 FFC1-1B52-56C FUEL 52mm CATERHAM $97.46 FOP1-1B52-50C OIL P 52mm CATERHAM $ 97.46 FCT1-1B52-48C WATER 52mm CATERHAM $97.46 CAR CARRIAGE OUT $55.00 Folks at Caerbont Automotive Instruments Ltd. were helpful and share dteh guages are a driect plug and play swap. No additional wiring or compoents needed.
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    I called for a quote today to Geico specialty insurance. I was quoted ~$3,000 for the year, NJ. With a stated value of $120,000
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    After much back and forth with Moto-Lita and Caterham, i have successfuly ordered a Moto-Lita Mk4 10" flat bottom (with holes) wheel compatiable with the Momo Quick release hub. Due to the 10" diameter, theres only enough room for 2 holes, but im pretty excited to have this option. Thought id share should other folks have the same request. I had a Mk4 on my Europa and loved it. Next up, getting the motorsports guages from Smiths....
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    A few of us did scca and north east motor sports. Both at the meadowlands complex in 2006-2009. Between 4 and 12 Elise’s would come out. On Friday’s NEMS had a morning session where, for ~$120 you could do “training”. And we’d run as many laps as we could in ~3 or so hours. We’d easily get 16-20 runs. No course work. Just driving. we ended up skipping the traditional weekend events because none of us wanted to work the actual course. was a good group of guys.
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    Every year.
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    Yeah. I built a reputation for hitting the cones. there’s one picture. I’ll have to look for it, where I drifted my rear through a crescent of cones hitting each just right to kick them up and create a rooster tail of cones, liken to a go fast boat turning up the bay.
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    I loved my 71 S2. Did a full frame off restoration on it. thus far, still the best handling car I’ve ever owned/ driven. any my BWR S/C 05 Elise, which was a mixed bag ownership experience
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    Thanks for this. those turn pods keep coming up…
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