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.. new or used sill protectors in carbon, OEM or aftermarket fine

I will pay postage to me in Kent - thanks

Black or alloy finish for an 88 S3 chassis - something old that I can clean up or powder-coat to keep costs down, with or without the webbing straps - I will pay postage on these to Kent, thanks

They were cool Arno - nice thing to have

Thanks very much for these leads, I wil pass them on today - brilliant.  i must say friend Richard's Wesfield is quite a car as it features the VX redtop out of a Calibra turbo  - complete with turbo still fitted - and pushing out in excess of 250hp, and he's just tidying it up and sorting suspension and gearbbox in future.

I have a friend in the Westfield world that has expressed an interest in a used 6 speed box from our community.  If anyone has anything in future, let me know and I will pass on details.

Fitment will be for a VX red-top but bellhousing etc can be had separately so I believe he's looking for the plain gearbox like so many others.

regards.

.... or alternatively 'Freedom' as seen http://www.taylorsfineart.com/rw_shop/ShopViewDetails.php?&cat=1011&man=745&dx=1&ob=3&rpn=shopviewcat1011&itemid=10249&sid=3b8144f6cf1c87206df9150d52950df6here.... 

I am interested in one of the limited edition Alan Fearnley / Chris Rea Caterham prints if anyone spots one for sale framed or otherwise, please point me in the right direction of a gallery selling them.  Thanks in advance

I followed your link, found this supplier of domed badges, and got some custom made displaying "HPC" and "JPE" for my cars that both required wheel centre badges, and a couple of spares in different sizes for the engine bay.  Not cheap but I got what I needed as a finishing touch, thanks

Thanks and I can find plenty of 40mm black Super7 wheel badge stickers, but can't find a good supplier of resin dome-top wheel badges in the same style.

Westfield XI is on my 'to-do' list but not until this time next year unfortunately (and even then it would be a toss up between an XI and an S2 Seven) - for sale about a year too soon for me, but its lovely, I love these cars, well done owning and enjoying this one.

anyone got any of these

Twizy wanted - high miles, damaged, failed motor and battery not a problem - just looking for a cheap one as a bike-engined-project

I'm not sure if the black car advertised is a factory BDR but it looks alright (although I never liked the big wheels, although they suited the Caterham 21 well, - 13,14,15" suit the seven best and are as big these should go IMO).  Black car is registered quite late if it is a BDR, and its not an HPC spec car, or certainly doesn't advertise to be. The chromed roll bar and wishbones work nicely to break up the black paint and trim though and it looks quite nicely presented.

Some were asking for pics of my BDR and JPE.  I don't have very good ones on my today but here are some samples - I will post more when I get them all lined up and polished up in the garage along with my bother's mk1 Superlight... it might be a while until I can afford to add a Lotus7 Series2 pre-xflow Cosworth to complete the collection.  On that note: - it was nice to see Caterham launched their modern day tribute to the S2 Seven (the new Seven Sprint) last week at Goodwood revival (as soon as I saw the Seven 160 a couple of years ago: I knew an S2 retro build with clams was the answer, and the new Seven Sprint is spot on.  I'm just waiting to see the first green and yellow one now)

Also below my JPE and photo of when I met Dr Palmer on the BMW stand at Goodwood this year :) - I would love to get JP or Jolyon to run it up the Goodwood hill one year, in future (I am working on getting a full JPE motorshow vinyl decal set made up in Flo yellow to make it more recognisable for such events in future, and might have to take the cage off at some point..... but I'm just enjoying it as it is for now as it is a well sorted road car running CSR wheels on ZZS tyres presently which work well, (as well as an original set of 15" Dymags on ZZR rubber in the garage to keep a period set of wheels for posterity).

Is your 15" wheel the CSR type or S3 (ie how wide and what is the offset) please email me on availability?

PS Thanks also James (owner of another gorgeous BDR car BtW) for supplying me an original HPC grill badge received in the post this week - I will fit this as a finishing touch this weekend and £65 winging its way to NtL next week for it as requested (+£10er on top for yourself to cover you post and trouble).

Those of you that have seen the photos of my car will see the HPC badge had been fitted really neatly to the back of the car, so I didn't want to remove it, but I always remember seeing the HPC badge on the BDR grill - back in the day when the owner's completed the 'compulsory' handling course.  That is a finishing touch that will really make my day and complete this car a treat.

regards

M

Thanks All - and yes indeed Matt Stears here.

Yes I have all the receipts with the car which is basically 1988 Caterham Cars new car sales receipt for circa £11k (yes a lot of money back then), and £15k 2 years ago which was an uber-bargain for a car that probably just needed light commissioning, registering and running in!  However the last owner went to town making it perfect and spent many man hours on it, and subjected it to an amazing array of work to make it better than new again all these years later.  

Indeed I'm not surprised it was thought it could achieve £32k! it was so good I didn't quibble at 7s and Classics £25k asking as it wasn't going to sit around for long at that (as the owner needed a sale to fund another interesting project) - it really was a case of that age old phrase in the trade "First to See will Buy".  I also like to support 7s&Cs too - they have bought and sold several cars for me now, and its a great team at Falkham - all former Caterham staff that live and breath 7s and know the market well.

Thanks all for your words on this HPC BDR

Matt (Herne Bay, Kent)

Thanks Nick and I know it can be interesting to hear what becomes of certain cars.

I admit it was a lot of money to pay for a late '80s 5 speed dedion (with a chassis otherwise just like my '84 live-axle 1700 Supersprint that I parted with over 16 years ago now), but it is a nice period piece. Even the paperwork was lovely, all the original brochures and hand written spec. and sales receipts (I recall it was £9600 or thereabouts as a brand new factory built car in 1989), even the HPC driving course certificate and paperwork is in there which all adds to the story.

I shouldn;t think (now its sold to me), I will be braking any rules by supply this link to the recent advert for anyone interested to see recent photos (although it looks even better close up than the photos give credit) as is often the case with snaps: http://www.sevensandclassics.com/showroom/caterham-7-hpc-1700-bdr/  

That said I wouldn't actually mind my old A-plate red 4 speed liveaxle Supersprint on flared wings with what must have been the earliest black pack created (which worked quite well actually I remember stripping and satin black powder coating things like the tatty old painted headlight, stainless wing protectors, windscreen surround etc)... but you can't keep them all.

That said the BDR can stay exactly as it is and all I will be doing to it is: fitting an HPC badge to the front grill, sourcing 4 wheel centre badges and possibly chrome plating the roll bar (but I'm in undecided on that at the moment)

I viewed this BDR at 7s and Classics and I just had to buy it.  Its absolutely spectacular! It changed hands for the first time since 1989 in 2014 and although that seemed like a bargain by today's prices , an equally fastidious buyer, with an epic collection of classics, went to town re-commissioning it no expense spared, (despite only 197 miles on the clock in 2014) that involved - engine out for inspection a re-commissioning on the bench, full re-spray of body in original colour while the engine was out (to freshen up 'patina'ed' paint work from 26 years in dry storage), all belts, hoses, fluids and consumables replaced and a few areas improved and upgraded but in original '80s period style.

Yes I've had to pay and extra £10k for the privilege over the 2014 sale price but I soon concluded this car is absolutely worth it it is definitely the best BDR out there and a lovely collectors piece - true concourse condition (it sits in any showroom as a brand new 1989 car).  It reminds me of my first Supersprint to drive,  The car is very characterful to drive and a lovely relic. and is very much the last of the tuned 'old school' Ford sevens (pre VX and K which were the stepping stones the modern day Ford cars and metric chassis that we know today), so it has a great classic car drive and feel to it today.

I've got it back to my storage facility (still with under 500 miles on the clock) where it will be run in gently over the next couple of summer's, polished and fettled for another 25 years hopefully.  Photos to follow - when I've got it lined up with my JPE and my brother's mk.1 Superlight (these were the 3 cars that were most significant to my brother and I when we got into Sevens in the 90's).  

All I want to add to this collection in the next few years is a Series 2 pre-crossflow Cosworth Lotus 7 and the line up of classic sevens is complete for me then (that will be quite costly so I will have to start saving up again, and might consider a basket case Lotus to restore, but an S2 restored to the standard of this BDR would be a dream come true).

Thanks for your input above and your comments around the BDR 7, always good to see.

Sold to Ian who was technically the first to responds, sorry for the delay getting back to the rest of you.  regards

Matthew

https://goo.gl/photos/eSuCgwPrsHjepuA88

Full set of exquisite Caterham OEM CSR carbon wings and stays, not cut for repeaters - and sat on my car for about a year between MOTs and about 200 miles use - so they are like new (change to 15" wheels with Avon ZZS rubber means back to standard wings/stays now so these are surpluse to requirements.  I priced the parts up on Caterham's web site and these are well over £800 with the stays (each bare wing is about £320ea!) so if you need em or want an opportunity to upgrade I'm offering here in close to as new condition, setup on their correct stays ready for fitting at £495 delivered UK addresses / lot or will px for any original period JPE parts as spares for my car.

Marvelous Jonathan - thank you so much this was really handy last night and my repeaters now work! (I was tearing my hair out for the sake of the repeater bulbs not quite making contact with the contacts - back to basics check end to end with a spare 12v battery and your industry standard colour guide and it was absolutely fine.  Job done - thanks for saving my sanity..... and what a useful link ;)  Nice Windcheetah by the way - a cycle that is still on my to do list personally.

I'm fitting some new /original wings (which came with side repeaters),

I was using a multimeter to try to find the the indicator feed to wire up the repeaters - does anyone know the colour-coding of looms for 7s form the early '90s - so I can tap into the correct one.

thanks 

As above I am about to buy sets Sat am so let me know if anyone has any for sale - I'm planning on taking the family for the first time the year and am looking for anyone selling any tickets for this between now and then.  Thanks

[777 HXX] on retention ready to go - would look great on a 7 like one of my former superlight here http://www.lotus7.club/sites/default/files/blog-images/Matthew_Caterham_Brands.jpg

full details and photos of the printed plates here (nice Caterham Cars printed short yet MOT legal plates included along with an expensive retro vintage set on S3 grill I never got around to using on the grill (and I have a new stick on black and white nose cone plate i a buyer wants it) - giving you plenty of options, and look good on any car.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/201564139757?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Price £975 for the lot, no offers (as I'm already knocking £275 off for 7 club members only) - might swap for another ageless plate that takes my fancy though