slimyroadster

An Austin Healey lookalike, using an MK HSR body on a Haynes Roadster chassis and an MX5 donor.

Sunday, 28 July 2024

More dash...

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 This weekend has been all about the dash. It had meant to be engine servicing time, but since I had everything all over the bonnet I wasn...
Thursday, 25 July 2024

Dash

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 The bezels are working well, I needed to do some tweaking but I've got some working designs for them. I still need to do the double bez...
Wednesday, 24 July 2024

Gauge bezels part 2

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 I'm calling it part 2 as I think I had an initial run with this, I just can't remember where it was. In any case, now that I have t...
Monday, 22 July 2024

dash gauges continued

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 It was a decently productive weekend even with the hot weather. Normally the garage is cool on the verge of being too cold, but the hot sti...
Friday, 19 July 2024

Post holiday progress - dash gauges

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 The other job I have ongoing is the dash gauges. With the current positioning on the back board they don't fit in the dash, it's si...

Post holiday progress - wheel guards

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 Things got cut short after my last post, holiday prep took over and then it was a week off in an AirBnB. It was a nice holiday, but each ev...
Sunday, 30 June 2024

Wheel guards good and bad

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 Today was slightly better. I managed to get all the good stuff I wanted, so a new Dremel lookalike from Lidl (more on that later), and some...
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Slimyroadster
I am a DIY builder in the Midlands, who always wanted to build a car ever since my first visit to Stoneleigh many (many!) years ago. I finally got my opportunity to make a start when we had our house extension built and I was able to request a garage. My ideal build would have been a Lamborghini of some kind but without the funds for one of those cars I had to look elsewhere. At one show there was a demonstrator car for an Austin Healey 3000 replica, but using a Seven-esque chassis. The body was about a grand, and I saw it as an opportunity to get a 'classic' car without the hassle or funds. Of course, as with any builds there is still hassle. Especially as the body is based on an MK rather than a Haynes Roadster. In turn, the Haynes Roadster is based on Sierra rather than MX5. So I very rapidly moved into unknown territory. The build started in February 2013, and the car passed IVA in February 2026.
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