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
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 0,000 square feet and was situated on one and half acres of land, which is pretty good grounds to build a nice kit car company. The Robin Hood kit car … [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
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
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 interested to know more … [Read more...]