Price wise - well I guess everything is expensive in this game - they have been very good at understanding what is important to us if that makes sense. We want to great looking, rust free and lasting job. We don't need concours - I'll be doing the odd trackday and maybe the Goodwood sprint in the car. We want performance enhancements, but only those that would have been available to a keen club racer at the time. And we want to be able to drive down to Lake Garda for a holiday in the car, so we're not looking for an over-stripped out finish. Oh, and we want it to continue looking like a very early Sprint GT, not a GTA replica! So for example they've had the rev counter converted to electronic for reliability, but you won't be able to tell that!
And as an ex-Caterham racer
, I do want decent tyres (soft compound Yoko 48's on order now the chassis is 'rolling' again) and a reasonably track oriented setup!
So I guess there's was a lot of 'opinion' for them to deal with
Deadlines - well we have tried ourselves to do the work over a period of about ten months or so - to ease our own cash flow! The target is August to make sure that we can park the car on the Lavant Bank for the Goodwood Revival in September. They've been happy to do the work as and when - and now that we're looking at the rebuild proper, they seem able to accelerate to make sure we do hit the target!