slimyroadster

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

Tuesday, 18 February 2025

Arches and weights

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 First fun job, the car weight. I got my postal scales and tried them out on the weekend. First issue was the batteries supplied were garbag...
Monday, 10 February 2025

Rear arches

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 A nice little project for this weekend, the rear arches. In the week I set up the arch template that I'd used on the front, essentially...
Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Little jobs

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 No wiring this time, I will get there eventually but not for now. Brain trouble rather than wiring trouble, maybe another time for that. Th...
Friday, 3 January 2025

Post Xmas catchup (seats and electrics)

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  After a lot of messing about, I finally have tall enough seats... unfortunately it would appear I took no photos of the extensions! Ah wel...
Sunday, 8 December 2024

Hiccup on the seats

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 I'm really happy with the seat wadding; It's made a really smooth squishy surface just ready for the leatherette. It glued on to th...

Start on the seats

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 First, a problem... Yes, despite me having far more space than a regular Haynes roadster, the air filter doesn't fit. I noticed it afte...
Tuesday, 3 December 2024

A halt in the proceedings

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 Since the last post I seem to have done very little. To be fair, it's been absolutely freezing in the garage, and the clocks going back...
Sunday, 17 November 2024

Dash 99% finished

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 So after last weeks debacle, things worked better. For reference, this is what the brushed on glue looked like; It makes me cringe just loo...
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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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