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A WARM Welcome to totalkitcar online … Race Retro weekend and a trip to Stoneleigh, forever the spiritual home of the specialist car industry. After missing 2024, it’s good to be returning to the show again.
We’ll have a full show review for you here next Friday. There’s plenty of kitcar manufacturer activity with the likes of AK, GBS and MEV all exhibiting. More from www.raceretro.com.
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HAWK CARS HF – Front cover feature is the marvellous HAWK CARS HF Lancia Stratos forty years old in 2025 – our twelve page feature covers the past, present and future for this glorious replica.
INDUSTRY GREATS – FORMULA 27 – Although it’s not been around for many years the F27 Roadster grew from a humble ‘pattern and plans’ project into one of the finest Lotus Seven-inspired sportscars. We look at the history and also catch up with the man who really drove the project – Steve Porter.
CATERHAM CARS – ‘X’ MARKS THE SPOT – we got our first chance to visit the vast new Caterham Cars factory, known as DARTFORD X, which is in, er, Dartford.
REMEMBERING THE CATERHAM 21 – Second feature of a Caterham-flavour this issue. We look back to the surely under-rated Caterham 21, wich deserved to do better. Arguably, although it went off sale in 1999, it looks better in 2025.
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IF YOU LIKE CLASSIC KIT CARS & SPECIALS you are in luck. Clicking that button will take you back in time with features on old kitcars, personalities and generally interesting companies who worked within the specialist car and sixties motorsport movements. I really hope you are enjoying them. Not all of them are kitcar-related per se but they all celebrate the underdog and often feature the wonderful world of sixties motorsport.
A lot of classic clubman motorsport features highlight underdog artisans that we hope will appeal to you dear reader, the sort of companies that we’ve often all heard of but on whom detailed information is often hard to find. Shorrock, Wade Turbochargers, Jack Knight Developments, Cannon Cars, Tom Killeen, David Ogle the list goes on and on. The sort of companies and individuals that our specialist and kitcar forebears from the sixties would have been very familiar with. You’ll find these subjects contained in CLASSIC KIT CARS & SPECIALS.
We tell the story of one of the most underrated kitcar companies, who made some of the most underrated kitcars in CLASSIC KIT CARS & SPECIALS this week. Who are we talking about? HUDSON COMPONENT CARS and their Free Spirit, Kinded Spirit and Mystic. CLICK HERE to go there.
SNIPPETS 1 …….. Caterham Cars’ new electric sportscar, Project V won a prestigious German design award this week for ‘Excellent Product Design’ at an International Design Competition in Frankfurt.
SNIPPETS 2 ……. Amusing email from Tim Dutton this week.
“Hi Steve, this must rank as the most boring PR since the beginning of time! We now have our new VIN plates for the new Dutton Phaeton 5!” More from www.timdutton.com.
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ITALIAN SPORTS BIKES
BENELLI TORNADO TRE 1130K SPORT
A lovely bike from abother Italian master of motorcycles – Benelli and this glorious Tornado TRE 1130K Sport. Sadly, it went out of production in 2017 and the superbike world has moved on a lot since but what’s not to like about this beauty?
It’s heavy compared to modern superbikes at 195kg and power is ‘only’ 133bhp. There were so many innovative touches to the Tornado. The 1130cc liquid-cooled four-stroke straight three. A beautiful thing, for sure.
So, that’s about it from me for this week, so I’ll bid you a great seven days, with plenty of enjoyable driving and I look forward to welcoming you once again next Friday – FEBRUARY 28 – La vie et belle!
Best regards
Steve