First published in 2002!

About 10 years ago I started looking at building a kit car and had decided on building either a seven or cobra replica and had narrowed it down to models manufactured by the likes of Pilgim, Dax and Westfield. Unfortunately work, time, money and family seemed to get in the way.

Now that I seem to have a little more time (and money) to play with, I have once again became interested, for a number of reasons

• After what seems like years of building and altering my current home, I've finished everything so I'm bored and need a new project
• After buying a mini cooper for my wife so that I had a sporty car for use at the weekend, it didn't really give me the thrill that I was after.
• After watching programmes like 'A Car is Born' and 'A Racecar is Born' I decided I wanted one.
• I liked the thought of one day taking part in track days.

Due to space restrictions for the build, I decided that a cobra would probably be too big (and I have to have something to look forward to building next !)

After a long and hard decision (about 5 minutes) I decided to build a Dax Rush.

The concept is to turn this old Ford Sierra donor car ...........

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.............into something like this

(Pixture courtesy of Dax)

.............which actually ended up looking like this

My order was placed on 17th October 2002 for a de-dion kit, with build date for chassis number 550 confirmed for 17th March 2003. It seemed a long time to wait, but plenty of time to find a suitable Sierra donor and refurbish or source all the bits. 

After just over 2 years since the order for the kit was placed, the car finally passed its SVA test on 23rd November 2004 and was registered as 'D4 XVB'  (DAX V8) on 2nd December 2004

My Dax Rush has now been sold !