The Shelby Daytona Coupe is regarded as one of the greatest cars in American motorsports history. With an aerodynamic body created by top designer Peter Brock it’s good for 196 mph, Shelby’s Ferrari-basher dominated the 1965 race season on its way to winning the FIA GT World Championship – and … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
Rally Cars For Sale
In the UK, many people enjoy all kinds of motor sport and rallying is one of them very popular motor sports. Getting into rallying is very easy to do and one of the main aspects of getting into rallying is finding that perfect rally car. Before we get into a looking for rally cars for sale. There … [Read more...]
Robin Hood Kit Cars
A Robin Hood kit car was a British based kit car manufacturer based in Nottinghamshire; the Robin Hood kit car factory was a fair size at around 10,000 square feet and was situated on one and a half acres of land, which is pretty good grounds to build an excellent kit car company. The Robin Hood … [Read more...]
Grinnall Scorpion 3 Wheeled Kit Car
The Grinnall Scorpion is one of the most distinguished three-wheeled cars available. The Grinnall Scorpion looks forward rather than backwards when it comes to the three-wheeled vehicles. The Grinnall Scorpion is powered by a high-performance motorcycle engine brought to you by BMW, which is … [Read more...]
Raw Engineering Kit Cars – The Striker
RAW was started in 1999 by Mel Coppock, and this was in an industry when all kit cars were pretty much using the ford Sierra's pinto engine and Raw were using the Toyota engine. By using the Toyota engine RAW was able to set it self aside from all the other kit car manufacturers and was seen as … [Read more...]
The Book That Got Me Into Kit Cars
When I was a kid, I would always be building Billy carts out of scrap bits of wood, and anything that I could cannibalise to make that all desirable car or what I would interpret as a car. Some of the carts I made were more of death traps with nails sticking out and wheels that wobbled and steering … [Read more...]
Westfield Kit Cars
THE HISTORY OF WESTFIELD In 1982, engineer and historic grand prix racer Christopher Smith decided that he wanted to build a replica of one of his favourite racing cars, and that was the sensational and sexy looking 1956 Lotus XI Le Mans car. Being such a fantastic engineer his accuracy was … [Read more...]
Goodwood Festival Speed 2012
Ok so this post is not about Kit cars, I know, Iknow this is a kit car site but when it comes to kit cars in general you are a petrol head so I feel this is relevent to the site and I hope that you enjoy it. OK so I got tickets to the thursday of Goodwood Festival Of Speed and I invited my Dad down … [Read more...]
Newark Kit Car Show 16th 17th June 2012
This is a kit car show that I have pretty much always gone too, its way up north for me and when I use to live in Milton Keynes, it was still a good couple of hours away so now that I live on the south coast you are looking at about a 6-hour drive. Now with my health problems I decided that I was … [Read more...]
The Vortex V2 Kit Car Photo Gallery
[slideshow id=5] [nggallery id=5] The Vortex V2 kit car was unveiled at the Stoneleigh Kit Car Show 2012 and I can see why its going to be very popular but it is not my personal cup or tea. If you would like to see our write up of the Vortex V2 the please take a look at Vortex V2 Review … [Read more...]
The Vortex V2 Kit Car
[slideshow id=5] The Vortex V2 kit car was shown off at the Stoneleigh kit car show 2012, and I have to say I did not like it. It's nothing personal about the car it performs well, and it is obviously from the outset a fantastic track car, but I just don't like the style of it. However, I was … [Read more...]
The Ultima GTR Kit Car And SuperCar
The Ultima GTR is a fantastic kit car I have always sat and admired the beauty of the Ultima GTR it looks like a real super car and on sunny days, especially at the Stoneleigh kit car show they look absolutely amazing. The noise they make their sleek lines and at this moment, the general feel of … [Read more...]
The Razor Kit Car Unveiled At Stoneleigh Kit Car Show
On the May bank holiday weekend. Myself and my buggy club headed off to the Stoneleigh kit car show which; by tradition, the last 10 years have been where we all meet have a few beers and celebrate another year of buggies and kit car ownership. The kit car shows at Stoneleigh are always … [Read more...]
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show 2012
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show is one of my biggest events of the year in my kit car Calender and I love it. The show was one of the best I have been to in a long time and was rammed to the rafters of great kit cars and lots of exciting people. I took a lot of photos as you can see below and I have to say … [Read more...]
The MEV Rocket Kit Car
The MEV Rocket is one of these fresh Ariel Atoms styled kit cars, and that is not a bad thing at all. The MEV Rocket is very much the new version of the Lotus 7 in the sense that its cutting edge and a real beast of a track car which also then goes on to be a pretty impressive road car. The MEV … [Read more...]
Mini Global GPS Kit Car Tracker With GPRS
I recently moved down to south coast of England and when I brought my kit car here I was a little concerned about the security of the place. We are not in a bad area or anything like that but because the area. We live in is quite an affluent place we have found that we had targeted by criminals, and … [Read more...]
Racing driver Sandra Harrison-Moore dies in Goodwood crash
A 27-year-old female racing driver has died after a horrific crash at Goodwood racing circuit. Sandra Harrison more was killed after she appeared to lose control of her Lotus 7 type sports car during that time-trial session at Goodwood circuit. Ms Harrison-Moore, of Blackthorn Grove, Milton Keynes, … [Read more...]
Caterham Kit Cars
Caterham produces a lightweight sports car and successful race car. Caterham cars had been massive Lotus Seven dealers during the 1960s, and its founder Graham Nearn purchased the rights to continue the manufacturing of the seven design from Chapman in 1973 after Lotus announces intention to … [Read more...]
The Blitz Kit Car Gallery
The Blitz buggy has always been a bit of a competitor with the Freestyle, but you often don't see many owners who have Blitz kit cars at the shows. I am not sure why this is, but it has always been the case. The blitz originally started out with mini engine and the fiat engines which provided a good … [Read more...]
Kit Car Insurance – My Experiences
Kit car insurance can be one of the most challenging car insurances you have to buy. I have owned my freestyle kit car for coming up to 10 years and every year getting insurance has always been a bit of a worry even though I have found a good company for the last five years and not had ay … [Read more...]