REGULARS:
Hole View - The leader from the leader!
Clobber & Stuff - All the latest kitcar-friendly new products
The Study - Reading matters, so here's the very latest automotive-flavoured book releases. Christmas is coming .
FEATURES:
INDUSTRY GREATS -King of the Buggies! - Along with James Hale, Dave Fisher is the UK's leading authority on beach buggies and Beetle know-how in general. The man also has a long kitcar-related history so we thought we'd delve a bit deeper.
Europa Engineering - We've got a bit of a Lotus Europa theme running through this issue and the UK's leading supplier of parts for Colin Chapman's ‘car for Europe' is Richard Winter of Europa Engineering. He also happens to make a couple of replicas on the theme ...
Nick Evans' Europa Twin Cam Restoration - Nick Evans used to write for Filby back in the day and has owned and/or restored a long list of kitcars including this rather beautiful and painstaking Lotus Europa restoration.
Birdman - This issue Richard Bird takes a look into the murky waters of registration and making sure your kitcar is correctly registered.
Reader's Drive - John Hannah's Midget - Crikey, John Hannah has endured some trying times in recent years, but his rather lovely bike-powered Midget is a credit to him, a real labour of love.
Race Diaries - Our Matt Higginson has undergone a trying season but brings us up to date with developments and hints at plans for the 2018 season.
Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems - A few years ago, if you mentioned having a TPMS system fitted to your kitcar, you'd have been laughed at, while if we wanted to see if our tyres were OK we kicked them. Not now though as these devices are now eminently affordable as Rob Marshall explains.
Project OMG - Our project RPX has some rather nifty Alloygator wheel protectors fitted this issue.
2rike We visit Craven Moses in Wuthering Heights-country to take a closer look at his jewel-like 2rike three-wheeler and Steve Hole does his best Kate Bush impression ‘out on the wiley, windy moors'!
T89 SSL - Fifty years ago, if you wanted a DIY single-seater you bought Allan Staniforth's ‘High Speed; Low-Cost' book and built yourself a Terrapin. Cal Trump has very much brought that idea into the 21st century with his T89 SSL.
Chipex Paint Restoration System - ON TEST - Paint-chips are irritating and can ruin the look of your car. The options are to get a chip-stick, which can look unsightly, get the panel resprayed, which can be expensive or buy a Chipex Paint Restoration kit for about fifty quid. Steve Hole did the latter and here he puts it through its paces.
Road Runner Racing UPDATE - Having overcome a huge factory fire, Road Runner Racing is not only still in business but they are thriving once again.
XCS Hot Rod - For over thirty-years Gary Sanders worked at DJ Sportscars and became an iconic name in the company's history. He has just scratch-built his own hot rod and we've been to see it ...
DJC V-Storm - Originally created as a three-seat; central driving position exo-skeletal, the Simon Keys-designed V-Storm has always displayed huge potential. As Steve Hole recently discovered, under the control of DJC Kit Cars, the product looks like fulfilling it, with a look at the latest demo car.
JK Sports Cars takes over the DAX range - For many years John Kox has traded as DAX Benelux in his native Belgium, but in an exciting move recently he's bought the rights to the DAX 427. We paid him a visit.
CarFest South - Here's the review of a great weekend in late summer; in Hampshire, featuring a specialist car magazine, ten of the UK's best kitcar manufacturers and 100,000 people