Eunos Chump

I've had the MX5 for 10 years now, but it's done very few miles in the past 5; too noisy and uncomfortable to be a daily driver, not fun enough to lure me from a bike, it's become redundant. So I've started to think about rebuilding it as an Exocet : It'd remain noisy and uncomfortable, but it would certainly increase the fun with it's turbo motor. Total cost would be around £4500 I reckon (budgeting for new suspension, seats, etc), which seems a bit strong for something only occasionally usable. And it looks a bit rubbish - the Aldi Atom, perhaps.   I'd certainly enjoy building it, but would I actually use it? See the Jalopnik article which got me thinking about this in the first place. Jaaaag news:  I've done about 2500 miles in it and it's not gone wrong yet.  The ABS warning light came on once, and the alternator went on the blink for about 10 seconds when it got wet, but apart from that it's all lovely.

Some pics from a visit to the motor museums at Gaydon and Coventry: I wanted my first photo of 2017 to be this.  Thankfully this vision of the future didn't come to pass.  We got Brexit and Trump instead. There are a LOT of Jags at both museums, this is ace as I'm all about the Jags nowadays.    Last-off-the-line XJ6 Sport, which was the final Jaguar to have a straight-six engine.  And here is an AJ6 engine.  I can confirm they are really, really good at eating all their dinner. It's Thrust, essentially 2 engines from a Phantom on a box-section metal sled.  We rode the simulator ride which comprises a 3D film and seats that move about.  It sounds rubbish but was surprisingly effective, and it looked bloody terrifying - it accelerates quite slowly to around 100mph, then within seconds it's doing nearly 600mph while the driver is having to hold the steering wheel at a 90 degree angle to keep it on track.