Hi Dan - i've just joined the forum and fairly quickly saw your thread. I'm pretty much in the same position as you - want to build a 7, budgeting around £5k and a 'how hard can it be' attitude!!
I've bought the 'Haynes Sportcars on a budget' book too - and it has definitely been a decent background read - considering I am enthusiastic but novice in terms of car maintainence and have zero fabrication experience...
I get the impression the difference between the '...for £250' book at the 'Sportcar on a budget' book are they use different suspension configurations - hence the designs in them are not quite the same...
Like you I also started to get the impression that quite a few of the kit manufacturers are basically offering kits which are very similar what you'd end up making if you followed the Haynes books to build something from scratch (unless anyone more knowledgeable corrects me on this!!!)
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