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CLUB MAN

It started out quite innocently – my kids bought me a book, How to Build Your Own Sports Car for £250. They bought it for father’s day. I looked at it and thought about it and realised I could do that. I’d restored cars over the years, but this was an opportunity to build one – not a kit car – from scratch.

We’re talking about starting with a stack of steel tubing and a donor car and putting it all together as your own version of a Lotus 7 replica. The guy who wrote the book

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