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1993 Caterham Super Seven HPC Evolution
Asking $38,999
Chicago, Illinois (Southwest Suburbs)
This is a particularly rare Caterham variant that I originally intended to keep, but have now decided to sell to finance other endeavors. For the uninitiated, the HPC received the venerable Vauxhall C20XE 2.0L I-4 engine, described by one of my friends who went for a ride as "the angriest-sounding four cylinder I've ever heard" (probably mostly due to the induction/cowl noise it makes), and known for b...
1993 Caterham Super Seven HPC Evolution
Asking $38,999
Chicago, Illinois (Southwest Suburbs)
This is a particularly rare Caterham variant that I originally intended to keep, but have now decided to sell to finance other endeavors. For the uninitiated, the HPC received the venerable Vauxhall C20XE 2.0L I-4 engine, described by one of my friends who went for a ride as "the angriest-sounding four cylinder I've ever heard" (probably mostly due to the induction/cowl noise it makes), and known for being an incredibly stout engine. The Evolution is a particularly rare option (supposedly only 20-30 exist) that bumped the already significant 175 HP up to 218 HP courtesy of Swindon Racing Engines. This is in a vehicle weighing just over 1,300 lb.
This particular example is in excellent shape. I actually have a number of blog posts that go into a silly amount of detail about this car (part of my original long-term plans to own it forever and document everything in the process.) There are three posts in particular that will furnish you with all you could ever want to know about this vehicle, so if you are seriously interested, I HIGHLY recommend perusing all three (that's where all the photos are!)
Post 1: https://www.racecargobrrr.com/post/my-1993-caterham-super-seven-hpc
This is the blog post I wrote when I first purchased this car over a year ago. It describes the entire history of the car, some of which required some research to obtain, including reaching out to the archivist at Caterham, as well as other previous owners, but the result is a full and detailed history of the car's ownership from the very start, as well as a deeper description of the car itself, the meaning behind the HPC monitor, and what makes this an Evolution model in more detail. It also includes a ton of photos documenting the condition of the car at the time of purchase.
Post 2: https://www.racecargobrrr.com/post/winter-updates-23-24
This post lists out the majority of the modifications/updates I made to the vehicle. This includes, essentially, refreshing the cockpit, as well as other cosmetic maintenance items to clean up the exterior, and fix a lot of things that had been less-cleanly done by previous owners. Note that this post excludes a handful of additional changes I made later in the season.
Post 3: https://www.racecargobrrr.com/post/overheating-issues-or-not
TL;DR, the ENTIRE cooling system is brand new in this vehicle, and the vehicle is now over-cooled if anything, all as a result of a bad ground wire that resulted in my chasing an overheating issue that turned out to simply be a poorly-grounded temperature gauge. The net result, however, is that pretty much every single part of the cooling system is brand-spanking new.
The vehicle comes with full weather gear (side doors and roof), as well as a compliment of spare parts including the heater, a cover, three pairs of spare springs (not sure of the spring rates), and various other knick-knacks.
I do want to specifically point out the RuggedRadios setup mentioned in the second blog post (radio, control head, and two pairs of headsets) will also be included, which is a very expensive setup worth well over $1000.
Happy to show you the car if interested, and happy to take you for a spin if the weather is cooperative. If you want to test drive the car yourself I will require some sort of a deposit because I'm not interested in joyrides from non-serious buyers.
I've included a few photos to give a taste. Full catalog of photos are contained within the linked blog posts above.
EDIT: Looks like I forgot to mention mileage. When I bought the car, I was told it had "roughly 20k miles on it." However the car has been through multiple speedometers over the years, and in piecing together the full history of the car, I discovered some more information, and so my best guess is that the true mileage is likely closer to 30-40k miles.
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