I was delighted to learn that a special-order model sitting on the price list of Race Car Replicas is a Porsche 962 replica.

Of course, the 962 is a race car, through and through. With a small cockpit, it’s not really very comfortable. Plus, it’s noisy and you don’t have very good rear vision. On the other hand, none of that stopped the brave souls who drove them from setting the sportscar world on fire when it debuted.

The originals are pretty much unobtainable for the normal person. But the RCR 962 is available now, with an aluminium monocoque centre section and tube frame More >

I am a big fan of drying towels and use them as part of my detailing schedule.

Once you’ve rinsed the shampoo of your car’s bodywork you need to move fast or else you could end up with a streaky, blotchy finish, which kind of puts a dampener on the hard work you will have put in.

You can use a standalone electric dryer or even one of the little blowers that poodle parlours use for dogs once they’ve been pampered. However, I prefer to use a quality drying towel.

As with most things these days though there are drying towels and drying More >

Repairing a windscreen washer system can be problematic at times; you may need to replace degraded, kinked or rodent-nibbled washer hose, or even stuck one-way valves and leaking connectors. This windscreen washer pipe repair kit from Connect Workshop Consumables (part number 36757), has been brought together as a one-stop box, offering the most common components found in the windscreen, headlamp and rear-window washer systems, allowing the technician or owner to quickly get the system working again. Also ideal for one-off, historic and kit-car windscreen-washer system manufacture. The kit even includes a pipe-cutting tool to ensure straight, clean cuts every time.

Included More >

Ring Automotive has launched a new bulb stand, delivered with 174 of the most popular 24V bulbs, for quick availability at the point of installation.

The eye-catching BU274 24V Bulb Stand is fully stocked with 174 24V vehicle bulbs and can be wall mounted so technicians can access the right bulb quickly for every job. It also helps workshop engineers keep control of their bulb stock, providing a quick visual of what needs to be replenished.

Ring’s BU274 contains 16 of the top 20 sales Pareto bulb types across headlamp bulbs and the smaller auxiliary bulbs; all are designed to original equipment More >

Some years ago Merlin Motorsport designed their own simple supplementary silencer/muffler. It’s a round box that has a 4in diameter, is 8in long, with a 2in perforation in the bore and is packed with E-Glass.

Merlin’s technicians weld a short length of exhaust tube at one end and slip it over the exhaust. The end cap on the opposite side is tacked on with four welds so it’s possible to grind out the weld and repack the E-Glass. See their MERLIN MUFFLER here.

The muffler can fit over the exhaust, in which case they’d advise a slot which allows it to slide over the More >