slimyroadster

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

Saturday, 26 April 2025

Longer weekend updates

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 This weekend is a bit longer than normal, mainly because it's another change of contract. My last job finished on Thursday, and my new ...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

Update from the weekend

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Not much new going on, but I thought I'd give an update on how things are going with current activities. The bonnet shaping is going wel...
Sunday, 6 April 2025

Bonnet reshaping

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 After I'd cut the rear wheel studs and got everything sat straight, I decided to have a go at the bonnet. It still doesn't line up ...

What to do when you lose some wires...

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 This weekend hasn't got off to a good start. I had hoped that with the sunny weather I'd get the wiring done, then potentially get ...
Monday, 24 March 2025

Busy weekend, no pictures

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Well, I managed to get a decent amount of work done this weekend thankfully. I even got some wiring done, woohoo!! Indicators and brakes wer...
Monday, 17 March 2025

Steering and interior projections

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 A couple of jobs done this weekend. First the interior projections. I want to make sure I had everything IVA friendly, so I got everything ...
Monday, 10 March 2025

Exhaust part 2

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 After talking about it in my last post, the weather was good enough on the weekend to roll the car out of the garage and get started on the...
Sunday, 2 March 2025

Exhaust

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 I saw an old post from Facebook today, talking about the exhaust. More specifically it was the initial fit before the body went.  It's ...

Light fittings and speedo cable

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 When I fitted my lights, I was aware that they're not the best quality. To be fair, 8 lights for £30 was never going to be top quality,...
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...
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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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