Another neat idea from Better Car Lighting. Using an older kitcar in modern traffic conditions can be a little bit nail-biting and scary at times. Lighting technology for cars has come on such a huge amount in the last twenty year or so.

If you’ve used an old car on a dark night and/or when there’s poor visibility you’ll know how scary this can be. Well, this simple, yet effective new kit from Better Car Lighting can really help.

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It adds a powerful rear foglight facility to your car without being overly blingy. You just replace your rear numberplate fixings with those More >

Eurax has announced that it is now a distributor of Germany’s Höfftech Lamps, including the latest HTO10598 Foldable LED Beam Lamp.

The HTO10598 is an LED light bar, which folds in the centre for easy storage or to fit within confined spaces. It has forty powerful SMD LEDs and an Li-ION power source that can be charged from a 240v or 12v supply. Both mains and car chargers are included.

The body is made from lightweight ABS and aluminium with foam covered hooks to allow the lamp to be positioned at the most convenient angle without damaging the mounting surfaces. The LED housings rotate to More >

Ring Automotive, one of the UK’s leading supplier of lighting and accessories for the automotive aftermarket, has developed a range of ProStart PowerPacks that are ideal for motor technicians that have to regularly jump start vehicles with various engine sizes in workshops and dealerships.

Including both compact and heavy duty packs, with the ProStart Ultra, ProStart Compact and ProStart Mini, Ring’s range of PowerPacks are capable of jump starting multiple cars and commercial vehicles as well as buses, trucks and agricultural machinery from a single charge.

The three highly durable PowerPacks have pure lead AGM batteries for high amperage starting, cast bronze More >

A rare beauty – Sylva J17 – MGF-based

Went up to Mallory Park last Friday to visit the ‘new’ Sylva Sportscars operation run by David MacBean and very impressive the company’s set-up is too.

A modern unit on the Mallory Park estate and you’re greeted by a cabinet containing Sylva corporate wear – sports bags, t-shirts, rain jackets and most importantly a superb new set of bespoke ETB instruments wearing the ‘Sylva’ script. Cool.

David is concentrating on the MGF-based J17, the last design from the pencil of the genius that is Jeremy Phillips, who founded and had run Sylva Autokits since 1981 More >

Here’s a very tempting arrival for totalkitcar readers. A range of cool sounding DIY home plating kits from Teignmouth-based Classic Plating.

Their entry-level zinc-plate package could be the one that really grabs your attention. It contains everything you need to zinc plate in your own garage. Best not do it in the kitchen sink, eh?

The basic kit contains enough materials to produce nine litres of electrolyte, so in reality you’ll only be limited by the size of your tank. You also get two different passivation chemicals allowing you to select between silver or gold-effect finishes.

The company also offers nickel, replica chrome More >