The Ultima kit car is a kit car that has been on my "want" list or should we say bucket list for a long time. I started going to the Stoneleigh kit car show back in 2002, and I have only ever missed 1 year when I was away travelling around Australia. I have been following and drooling … [Read more...]
GQ Partnership Brings Caterham Academy To A New Audience
Caterham has teamed up with one of the world’s most reknowned and respected men’s fashion magazines – GQ – for this year’s Caterham Academy. GQ, the number one upmarket men’s lifestyle media brand in the UK, is the definitive title focusing on fashion, style and culture for men and will be the media … [Read more...]
Say Goodbye To The Caterham Superlight R500
The order book for one of Caterham’s most extreme variants of the legendary Seven sportscar, the Superlight R500, has closed. Production of the final R500 – number 174 – finished at Dartford on 7th July and is destined for Caterham’s distributor in Peru, South America. After accumulating blanket … [Read more...]
Stoneleigh Kit Car Show 2014
Stoneleigh kit car show is the worlds biggest kit car show and i have to say it is one of the best events on my motoring calendar. So as you can imagine it is a big deal and I work very hard to get there. I also own www.muddybuggies.com and I am the club founder so I am slightly biassed towards the … [Read more...]
Matt Parry To Guest In Caterham Superlight R300 Race
Reigning McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner, Matt Parry, will race as a guest driver in the Caterham Superlight R300 Championship at Donington Park on 10th and 11th May 2014. The rising star, aged 20, joins a long list of motorsport talent also named Young Driver of the Year by the UK’s leading … [Read more...]
The End of Newark Kit Car Show
Newark kit car show has always been a kit car show I have managed to get to each and every year. The only time I missed the show was in 2009 and that was when I was travelling Australia at the time. So as you can guess I am a little bit upset about the thought of there not being a Newark kit car … [Read more...]
Newark Kit Car Show 2013 Photos
Sorry for the lack of photos but I became ill and had to leave a day earlier than normal so I did not get to take as many photos. … [Read more...]
The MEV TR1KE Kit Car
So after this years Stoneleigh kit car show our club started to really notice the amount of three wheeled kit cars that are coming to market and with one of our club members already having a Scorpion I figured that I would look a bit further into the world of three wheeled kit cars and so I am going … [Read more...]
What Skills Do You Need To Build A Kit Car?
This is one of the questions that I often get asked and to be honest there is not any clear-cut answer to this question. I am by no means a mechanic, in fact, I am pretty bad at mechanicals. I understand how the basics work, but I can't get very technical. However, I have had my kit car for 10 years … [Read more...]
Robertsham Daytona LeMans Edition Coupe
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Kit Cars For Sale
There are many kit cars for sale at the moment, if you are unsure as to what type of kit car you are after then take a look below and browse at your leisure. We have a massive selection of kit cars for sale and at some really great prices. Whether you are looking for an AC Cobra or a any other … [Read more...]