Okay, as ever I'll explain the name first...well, as you can see the car is small and mainly red and over the years it has taken a lot of my time and money...much like a mistress. Now just put it all together and you get, Lil' Red Mis.........

This one was my daily driver whilst Chugbug was being built, so it deserved another life after serving me so well. It's new life was to be as a 'Saturday Night Special' - a definite lack of weight, just enough interior to satisfy the law and a monster engine, just don't give the game away too much.

Bodywork needed a little fettling due to the hard use it had seen over the years but nothing unexpected and relatively quickly done.

Paintwork - my dad stepped up this time, he had always wanted to do a two tone bug, so he did one, but not the doors as he couldn't figure out what to do there. Out with the masking tape, scratch the head a few times to figure out how to join the pattern on the left of the door to that on the right of the door and away we went. In case you're wondering as to how this scenario came about it goes something like this...at the time the car was my dad's, though it was being built up with me being the eventual owner. I was also living a hundred+ miles away at the time so he just got on with each job as he got around to them.

Interior-wise the weight-loss program meant it was out with the comfy, leather wrapped electric Porsche seats and in with the pick-'em-up-with-your-little-finger bucket seats. Carpets were just that, carpet - no foam backing, no sound deadening, just enough to avoid scratching the floorpans.

Engine was my 2160cc flat-four air-cooled VW engine which I built a few years earlier. Capable of revving to over 7500rpm and producing ~190BHP it was fun and left many a Porsche, Impreza etc owner behind, the trick was avoiding wheelspin. The engine is currently being fitted into Vuk the Bus.