The order for the Super Six kit was placed at the end of January 2000, and the delivery date confirmed as 6th May (long wait - they're *really* busy, which is good!) The first thing to do was prepare the garage. I've got a built-in single garage on the house, which isn't the biggest in the world but, hey, it's a small car... The house is pretty new, so the floor's smooth concrete, and the walls are bright white airblocks. So nowt really needs doing with them. (BTW, that's the car that's being flogged to make space and cash for the car - any offers?)

But I do need more power and light. Fortunately, since it's a built-in garage, there's already a mains supply in there, so it was just a matter of running cable from the feed coming in and hanging a couple of extra sockets off. The lights were attended to by four extra five-foot florescent fittings. Finished off with a good thick £10 offcut of backed carpet, 4m x 1.6m, which is plenty big enough. So I've now got a bright, comfortable garage with plenty of power available.

The next thing was to assemble something to stand the chassis on while working on it. I briefly considered axle stands, but they're only little and not especially stable. So I decided to put together some trestles, built from 4x2 for maximum strength. These cost about £20 to put together - money well spent though. You can jump up and down on them and they don't budge at all. Which is kinda reassuring when you're lying under a couple of hundred kilos of chassis and suspension.

I also should have been out sourcing donor parts for the car, including:

• 2l Pinto (OHC engine used in Sierra/Cortina/Granada/RS2000 etc
• 5-speed type 9 gearbox (standard Ford box used in most 80's cars)
• Mk2 Golf steering column
• Mk1 Golf GTi front hubs/uprights/calipers
• Cortina axle
• Mini washer/wiper assembly
• Cortina/Polo heater

Unfortunately, I didn't get time to, so Tiger supplied the axle and Golf GTi hubs/calipers which had to be modified by them. The GTi hubs are getting very scarce anyway, and it will take an awful lot of time to find them (unless you're *really* lucky). You could always try Kit Fit, who claim to be able to supply just about any donor part you could ever need and recondition them (ad in the back of the kit car magazines).