Yes, you read correctly. It's not that I'm not satisfied with the motoring industries' worldwide attempts- they do a magnificent job however doing the daily commute in a mainly hygenic (unless the children have been near) and safe environment is one thing. Experiencing the exhilerating power and sound of a V8, no driver safety aids such as traction control and ABS is another... so follows a diary of my efforts to build a replica of a beautiful machine - the AC Cobra.
I'm not going into the history or story behind it - there's plenty written already. This is about my journey as a car building novice trying to see if I can do the magnificence of the machine justice, and letting family and friends know that I am alive and mainly getting up to good things in the garage...
So the plan is to turn a pile of rust like this:
Into a magnificent marvel of engineering like this:
I hope GD don't mind me posting this photo here but this is pretty much what I'm looking to achieve other than the driving on the wrong side bit.
Looking at the pile of rust I get nervous everytime I walk past it in the garage.
So as you can see I have started - after much hunting around I located a Jag XJ6 series 3 (the requirement for donor parts which includes suspension, brakes and transmission) that I could rescue the requisite running gear from plus it's V5 document to enable an age related registration if and when I get that far.
Armed with two Haynes manuals for the XJ6 from eBay/Amazon it's now time to start cleaning this stuff up.
