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I spent the day working in the garage again today. It was a bit of a strange day I got of lots of work done but no jobs finished. Most of the day was spent on the wiring, i got most of the rear of the wired up, its not tidied up but i find [...]

for the last few days, thats not because i have not been working, I have, lots. In fact the reason there has been no update is I put in two 16 hours days in the garage the last 2 days so by the time i got home I was too tired to even look at [...]

well i came to a realisation tonight, colour sanding a car is time consuming and my paint job is really not that bad, it looks good from 2 feet, but not when you really study it so given the time constraints i’m under, less than two weeks to finish the buggy I’m going to leave [...]

Well, i’m a little a head of schedule, i got the buggy painted tonight. It went well but i do have one problem to fix, despite cleaning the body 5 different times i missed some dust in the rear light and naturally when i went to spray the it came out. I have 7 little [...]

Well got a few more bits done today. Spend about 10 hours in the garage so I should hope I got a few bits done. Dad also spent the day with me so there has been 20 hours more work gone into the buggy. Dad got the fuel lines sorted at the rear, the coil [...]

Sorry for the slightly blurring photos but Alma has a shaky hand with a camera.

I have been putting off writing this for a while. The last month has been a strange one for me and the buggy. It started off well by finding someone to do the roll cage on the buggy BUT it took longer than expected and I’m still not finished tidying up the car since it [...]

I was awake half the night for various reasons but it gave me a lot of time to think about the buggy roll cage. I’m going to move the windscreen to be closer to the roll cage. I have it at a steep angle so there is room for adjustment.

Just got e-mail these pics from my roll cage guy. Its only tacked waiting for my approval. I would like the front hoop closer to the windscreen but we are limited by the dash. Have to make my mind up soon.