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I would treat the dates as a rough guide anyway, and not get too hung up on them. Kits get bought and then occasionally might be ten years in the completion, so you can have a 2003 car with a 2003 chassis and body, or a 1993 chassis and body. Or you can have a 1989 car that someone has retrofitted with a 2001 body etc. If there is something in particular that is important to you, you just need to learn how to recognise it; don't forget, two or three sellers down the line the current owner may be blissfully unaware that their pride and joy is actually a hybrid of different years parts. On the Ford parts question, again, I wouldn't read as much into it as their sometimes appears. Yes there may seem to be parts made for lots of Ford options going back years, but that doesn't mean it's anything like OEM quality still. (Though there are plenty of fine quality retro parts). There's a lot of nasty Chinese re pro stuff as well as just mediocre quality stuff. A classic example is some of the replacement gear sets for the Sierra diffs, the quality just isn't the same as the OEM Ford parts, as a consequence makers have started to move away - Caterham had loads of issues a few years ago with diff noise. The Mazda market is huge and global. It's not going to go quietly!

Looking at Lewis's list, I'd say the Mazda SDV has many more useable donor parts than the Sierra - and the Mazda engine will be way better than a 1980's Sierra one (IMO). Unless you happen to have a Sierra donor kit lying in your garage (as I did) then if it's an SDV, it really should be a Mazda - there... I've said it...

I'd be worried about interfering with the crossflow self replenishing chassis anticorrosion system. Jen

Nasty Crash for Will Hall this weekend but thankfully walking around OK. The new fencing did it's job to save spectators from a flying wheel ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ5Euj25SfA&app=desktop

oh yes - mrs flys a lucky lady alright

Try http://www.larklandsarc.co.uk/

Looks very nice Julie I wish I had put my name down for one now If there is any spare can I have one please

Liking that Angus (see if you can find the reference ) I'm personally quite proud of my 'steering wheel interface'... aka RJ45 port

Yes! Someone else who shouldn't have sold it then

Ferrari F355 - 1st car at 17 Ferrari F40 - given to me by great uncle Enzo, from my mothers side. Jaguar XJ220 - crashed Aston Martin DB7 - had 3 days and sold on, boring! Sold the DB7 and bits off the XJ220 and saved me pennies so I could buy: Mclaren F1!, didn't really like it so sold it. Ferrari F50 - daily run-around for about a year TVR Speed 12 - Track toy Porsche 911 GT3 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Bugatti Veyron Woke up Nissan Almera