Below is an extract from Duncans' build diary - to read more, please visit his web site.

"26-28/3/99
Woo Hoo! It's arrived!

I got my Dax Rush kit Friday 26th :-) It was delivered by the ever-so-nice  Duncan Cowper (he with the fastest Rush in the world, holder of the current 0-100-0 speed record). The Dax pickup truck was brimming with bags and boxes and body panels, with the chassis perched on top and lashed to the cab roof.

Whilst the chassis looked small sitting on the floor of the Dax stand at the Stafford Kitcar show, it fills my single garage! All the (many, many) other bits covered the lounge floor in a sort of small boy's vision of automotive nirvana. Friend John and myself spent a while just opening boxes and spreading the shiny bits even further, to check things off against the invoice."

The engine block and sump get a coat of nice red paint

Bonnet and nose cone trial fitted, together with part of the front left suspension

Rush Technical Specification
Chassis:

• DJ Sportscars 1999-specification Rush
• Independent rear suspension option
• Powder coated
• Stainless steel roll-over bar
• Explosafe-filled aluminium fuel tank

Engine:
This is a Rover V8 engine (based on a 3.5 litre 1986 Vitesse) with:

• Weber 500cfm 4-barrel downdraught carburettor & Edelbrock performer manifold
• Stage 2 heads
• Viper Hurricane fast road camshaft
• Mallory dual-point distributor with vacuum advance
• Moroso high-power coil
• Uprated oil pump
• Remote oil filter
• Uprated radiator
• Rover Vitesse clutch
• Rover 5-speed manual gearbox
• Twin stainless steel 4-into-1 side pipes