Project Mini Lotus 7

Hi
This is the 1st time I have posted here on my blog I haven’t had anything to blog but now i have something worthy of blogging I think.

What I have decided is that I am going to make my son a Lotus 7 Replica in ½ ish scale at the time it was 5 in the morning and a long night shift.

I found something called a Grasshopper. It’s a Locust 7 (lotus 7 to the guy off the street) Locust has a small kit for kids to get them interested in mothering. I like this being in to cars, I had a BMW3 series E30 loved it but it had to go due to time and kids problems  love the horrors so because I cannot afford nor have the yes from the boss (my wife)

I’m going to build a Grasshopper Replica
Yes a Replica of a replica i now it sounds strange but I have reasons for this mainly size money and have to fit in the family car with seats down.

After some time researching this I have discovered it is not an easy project by fare mainly as the web page had 1999 prices on it so it’s not going to be cheap kit any more

Let me just tell you that I got the crazy idea from looking for a pedal car on EBay. I wanted a cool looking car electric or pedal as I was searching I found some that looked ok and one that I could mod  I like this the I came across a lotus 7 for £65 and I not being allowed one because of price thought it so CHEAP mu god a lotus 7 well I clicked on the son a B***** and lo and behold it was a kids car well I am about 5’10” and 14 odd stone ill crush it the my son spring to mind ill get it for him i emailed a way with How much buy it now got a NO I am letting ride so i watched and £160 later i have nothing as i lost it gutted so this is where the night shift came in i set about the research and came up a blank on most searched un till i got the locust page and that was it all i had and have now
Or though no I have 20 odd paged of full size specs I’m going to re work it to about ½ size a bit smaller than the grass hopper. I am doing all the plans and drawing myself based around a lotus 7 mainly for me boy 

The only information I have is an eBay listing that finished on the 31/10/09 and a heavy amount of Goggling I found the Locust owners web site. It has 3 dimensions for the car height with and length, Ok a good starting point.
so I set to work looking at the size and how much it was going to cost then it struck me because the car is too long at 1.8 meter for my own car and that I would actually like to build one from the ground up by no means am I saying to follow in my footsteps the Grasshopper is a fantastic car and kit I just want to build one I like a challenge

I have my own philosophy is: if someone made it, I can take it apart and
Well that me and my blog ill keep it up dated and I am happy to answer any questions
Bm3series@btinternet.com