DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

I'll take that as a compliment Mike, there's a polished stainless sill plate just there, catching the light, but if that's all you can nitpick about a brand new car, designed & built by a hand full of passionate car enthusiasts in a shed; then I'm very happy

Here's an exclusive image from Saturday Chassis 002-004.JPG And an independent film here, I say "independent" as neither the film maker or Adam (Jaguar & Aston factory test driver & Racing instructor for some BIG names) were given access to the Comet with NO information or prejudic...

. What is it ? Is it 'life size' or a scale model ? Looks like it's been made up from parts of at least 3 different cars ... . That was actually a wood frame & foam BUCK, from which our body was molded. It was dressed up for a photoshoot about 2 years ago, which is why the windows are just refl...

Hi Ralph, I live about 500m from the sea. You need to ensure the garage is sealed well, the salt air is a killer in the winter or periods of continued damp. One issue I found was having a block paved drive, the salt seeps up through it. Even the Fishbourne Roman palace museum down the road thats abo...

I put mine in the hedge bottom on Saturday evening. Missed another car by a few inches, then missed a tree and it luckily stopped on the dirt verge before plunging down into a field. All in slow motion at low speed. Needed passer by to give it a shove as it had grounded on the dirt. Police even slo...

20K miles a year in this little beauty

Bootsy wrote:I like the bonnet shape

Hall 5 by the Discovery Live Stage on the Wheeler Dealers Stand The big wheels of the Media Machine are starting to roll On our first run at the Proving Ground & 7 miles on the clock we did a 3.9sec 0-60 and went off the 150mph speedo at 4000 rpm in 4th, with a whole 1500 rpm spare & a 5th G...

Image credit to the awesome Carrie Wilson

Winters on the way Keith, welcome to the "cant open the door & when you do get in it won't close" club

The window drop feature is my biggest bugbear on frosty mornings

You can’t go far wrong with Insulated building or industrial refrigeration panels. These are steel clad plasticoat kingspan filled construction panels. I’ve designed & built things using them many, many times on structures including deep freeze test chambers for Jaguar, climate controlled Veneer...

Graham, yes, that was a mock up last year at NEC. That particular car, has been reworked and is now in L.A. USA, undergoing some "exciting" EV development that I can tell you about at the weekend

Thanks KS, I am truly humbled by the skills found in the restoration thread section of DDK and some of the things that we can all achieve by working as a team. This time last year at Dowsetts we scratch built a homage to Fangio's winning Alfa, in aid of Harrisons Fund. A little lad with muscular Dys...

Thanks for all the kind words, it is much appreciated :) I'd hoped to get further on this year but all of my spare time outside of work has been taken up by another project. A project I can now share with fellow DDKr's I have been working with my good friend Ant Anstead on a few projects since helpi...

Aha, yes. that's already on the cards. I purchased a used 997 front bumper at the same time as the rear last year to cut up & use as a base-guide in the same way as I did the rear It's funny now the projects underway, the rear just looks retro Outlaw "right" to me, which makes the fron...