Well I can speak from experience when I tell you it takes longer to cook up a Caterham than it does a human… quite a lot longer. 

When I was nine my Godfather took me out in his “Bugatti Blue” Caterham Super 7, it was like nothing I had experienced before.. a complete sensory overload that left me dreaming to have one of my own ever since. 

Today I realised that nine year old’s dream when I picked up my 620R after placing the order 18 months ago!

The lead time probably worked in my favour as I deliberated, going back and forth on the spec so many times, and even when I did lock the spec in back in December I still didn’t know how it would turn out. 

Needless to say, I am absolutely stoked with the result! As I write this, it is the only 7 ever to be painted in the Ferrari colour “Viola Hong Kong” with Porsche “Acid Green” accents and I think the two work so well with the generous amount of Carbon scattered between. The Carbon seat headrests are trimmed in leather as standard with no stitching or embossing which seemed odd to me as the seat centres are Alcantara so the team at @dclassauto did an awesome job of re-trimming the headrests in matching Alcantara and embroidering the “7” logo in Acid Green stitch. The brake callipers are Yellow as standard which just looked too busy against the other colours so @hwm_caterham powder coated them in Acid Green to tie in with the other details and I think they pop really well behind the Silver wheels 👌🏼

Profilm had 3D scanned a 620R before and PPF all the Caterhams for HWM and I am blown away with the finish they have achieved, they even double filmed the rear arches at my request as they take such a peppering from the front tyres. 

Had to finish it with the custom @oakley Frogskins🤘🏼

All in all an amazing experience and the perfect car to collect 10 weeks after having a baby 👍🏼

I want to thank @ollie_4c at @hwm_caterham for a great experience from Spec to collection. I would also like to thank @dclassauto for their awesome work on the seats and @profilm_group for the superb PPF instal. 

Final thanks to @horsepower_hunters for the mega 📸