Build Day 1- Arrival & Wrapping

Father & Son Day 1

The kit arrived today!!! YAY!!! Dad had to work but was expecting a call to say it was being delivered, which both the delivery driver AND I had forgotten to do. I also forgot to get the GoPro out and filming, but hey ho. Was all in and done in less than 30 minutes. Dad then came home for lunch to look over the parts and check whether any of it was noticeably wrong or absent. Then later on, after he had got back from work, we set about wrapping and protecting all of our new, shiny parts.  

Day 1- chassis, boxes and engine in garage.

Chassis sitting beautifully on the stands

Just checking out the new Orcus Anthracite Wheels. Amazingly light and have a really nice, almost pearlescent, finish. A lot of white scuffs on the rim, however seems to come off easily so probably just the polish or wax used by the fabricators.

Engine on pallet, very easy to manhandle around the garage floor.

Huge pile of bits, hopefully all of it is here.

Fairly large indent in the bonnet, should be able to bend it back straight. Also down either side of the black stripe is a fairly heavy white line, hoping it is just polish caught along the stripe as it is painted over the orange thus having a ridge along the edge.

Gotta be the right car!!!

Pretty miffed that the car has arrived with an unpainted grill, despite paying an extra £35.

The rest of the day after the Caterham arrived was spent covering the car in bubble wrap and copious amounts of masking tape, and sorting through the numerous boxes trying to gauge whether anything major was missing. We also created a rack above the lighting which we could safely keep the bonnet and nose-cone.

All painted panels covered and chassis tubes covered. Note home made wooden chassis trolley. 

Hopefully we can avoid having to talk to Derek, however as the cars have changed somewhat in the last 15+ years and if the manual is as bad as it was back then for the original superlight, then it is unlikely to be long.