Trevor from the local shop, need for speed, is lending me his trailer to move the car from the drive to the garage. I'll have to find out what his tipple is and get a bottle of the appropriate.
I also found that demon tweeks have a gear display unit (made by translogic) reduced from £235 to £58. It seems to be similar to the idea that I was going to make with microswitches and the like. This has a nice aluminium linear sensor that is custom made for the job. Should be here in a couple of days and I'll have a play with it connected up to a 12V PSU at work.
Need to phone MK to make sure that there are going to be some black aeroscreens in stock next fri/sat when Tony is going to pick one up for me.
Spending most time now thinking about what stuff I need to take on the patrol :-((((