His first attempt was a Mini based sports car, but it never got past the mockup stage. At that time most cars were based on VW Beetles. Beach buggies were the rage and a car that was getting a lot of news at the time was the Purvis Eureka as five were prizes in a radio competition.

Inspired by the popularity of the VW, for his second attempt he decided to use a VW chassis.

It was then that Alex started to realise just how difficult it is to design and build a car from scratch. It was made a little easier using a VW chassis, but a lot of work had to be done getting the body, which was a hardtop coupe right.

Alex persevered and eventually he had a wedge shaped body, which was the popular style at the time, shared by cars such as TVR and the Lotus Esprit. Still he had doubts about how successful the car would be but at least it would be his own design.

His friends however were not so convinced and they eventually managed to talk him into having a go at something not so groundbreaking, stating that there was less risk in building an already popular replica. Alex then began work on a kit set car that would be known as the Almac 427SC a replica of the legendary AC Cobra.

Demand for the cobra was so great that the original VW based car was moved out of the way to make way for all the Cobra work that was now coming in. Sadly, the Yellow Car was never finished. The only body that came out of the moulds was sold in 1992. As far as Alex is aware it still has not been completed.