Rolling Road and Wiring Loom pages added

 

 

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History

K80RUM was built in 1999 over a two week period. It was originally a Superlight-R, Caterham's then top-of-the-range customer car. 

 

Superlight was the moniker that Caterham gave their cars that shipped with a certain 'lightweight pack' which used Carbon Fibre parts in place of the more usual fibreglass The R stood for 'Race' (it had a race tuned version of the current Rover K series engines).

 

The Superlight-R was launched in style, by breaking the Nurburgring lap record for a production car. Now however it has relinquished its place as Caterham's flagship model, in favour of the R500. Caterham's chosen engine tuners Minister squeezed some more power out of the little K series powerplant and Caterham added some more trick bits such as a better dashboard and seats, doing everything possible to shave as much as possible from the cars base weight (the 500 stood for the claimed 500bhp/ton power-to-weight ratio).

 

The move from conventional roadsters to the Caterham was, for me, a gradual one. Caterham allow the customer free range to choose from a list of possibilities or to create their own. My Superlight-R was originally spec'd with the following options:

 

Tahiti blue pearlescent paint, Silver nose stripe, Heater, Leather S-Type interior, Anti-cavitation oil tank, Tall FIA rollbar 

Preparing for a noise test at Goodwood. The result - 99dB. All credit to the RaceCo exhaust and the airbox!

 

Preparing to take to the track at Kemble  

 

 

Big Nige driving for Caterham in their factory-built Soapbox at the Red Bull Soapbox challenge 

 

 

Famous Caterham Owners

The following people are believed to own or have owned, a Caterham: 

Chris Rea

Steve Tyler of Aerosmith

Joe Perry of Aerosmith

Alan Jackson (country singer)

Jools Holland (musician)

Ross Brawn (F1)

Eddie Irvine (F1)

Damon Hill (F1)

Jay Leno

Lee Dixon (footballer)

Paul Gilchrist (footballer)

Alan Shearer (footballer)

Brian Robson - car believed sold to Paul Gascoyne

Michael Flatley (Riverdance)