The project build as featured in

What is "Project Shed"? I suspect that the picture in the main title gives the game away a bit - I, along with fellow MGF nut case Tim Woolcott, collected an absolute shed of an MGF from the south coast just before Christmas 2007. The car didn't have much attached, as you'll see in instalment 1 of the series - but that's just fine with me. I have been daydreaming about building and driving an MGF based race car for some time, and a freebee MGF shell was just the catalyst to get started. I have also wanted to try out a few ideas, including aerodynamic tweaks and seeing how much of a difference shedding a whole pile of weight would make to the performance of the car. One wonders whether it might be quite a lot! Oh, and the idea is to do the whole thing on as small a budget as possible. I am reckoning on a sub-1000 quid budget to get the car driveable again. And perhaps a further 1000 beer tokens to get the car ready for sprints/hill climbs, track days and racing! Oh yes, racing! The current aim is to get the car ready for the 'all-comers' endurance race at Silverstone's international MG meet (now called MG Live!) in 2010. Given family and job commitments, that is looking like a tall order - but we're going to go for it!

You may already have read about project Shed in the MGF Register magazine, or perhaps in the MGCC's printed organ of all knowledge, Safety Fast (click on the logos above), so this site is serving as a repository of back issues of the building of project shed. Of course, if you've not seen the articles in print, then follow the build here - at current rates of publishing, the articles will be coming out quarterly - so don't forget to pop back (and if I remember, I'll update the rss log! ) - and you'll get the additional bonus of pictures that weren't included in the final printed articles, you lucky things...

	#1: What have I done? It's December 2007. Its cold. Its miserable. And we have a tonne of scrap metal, formerly known as a 1997 MGF VVC! Read more
	#2: Getting down to it The strip down of the shell begins, which offers the opportunity to go all Tony Robinson and do some Time-Team vehicle archeology. Without the geophysics. Or the bloke with the beard. Or the scrumpy-soaked digging Yocal. So not a lot like Time Team at all then, but probably just as grubby. Maybe.