Andy,
I priced up a Caterham 7 Kit and even the most basic one with optional extras of a windscreen, 'wet weather gear' and a heater came to around £14500 which is unfortunately out of my price range at this time! Obviously you can get older ones cheaper but with one of those a lot of the fun would be in the building too!
I always used to want a Lotus Elise until a colleague at work got one, for some reason if I'm going to buy a novel type car I can't bring myself to get something anyone I know already has! Therefore a Vauxhall VX220 is still on my list - essentially the same car but looks a bit different. The issue with that is, could I live with it every day for 50 miles a day? As with the Boxster, that would have to be an every day car.
I'd love an Atom but they're still around the £30k mark so it'll probably be always out of reach for me!
why can they not just have points. instead of a box with 40 + wires
peter 
My wife's Citroen C5 is full of technology (or stuff to go wrong) - on Monday I got a warning on the dashboard "Engine Anti Pollution System Fault" and it's restricted me to about 10% power! It's going in on Friday to hopefully find out what's wrong and sort it out, £65+VAT just to connect to diagnostic computer then I'm sure it'll tell me whatever is wrong is not covered by the warranty! This is making me want to buy a classic even more, I can deal with a coil, distributer, points, plugs and carbs!
Anyway, sorry for going

Great work on the hard top windows John, I think that is the style of hard top I had too - the only thing wrong with it was some sort of flock on the inside that was peeling off - didn't really know what to replace it with. Are you going to spray it body coloured?
Nick