Friday 17th May 2002

Stoneleigh 2002

Graham Bell visited the Stoneleigh Kit Car show earlier this month and snapped some exotic looking cars

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[numlock]

There probably would have been 4000 cars had it been organised better. By the time I turned up (11am) there was a 1.5hr queue for kit cars to get in (got to be the oddest looking traffic jam in history!). I like many others had to park my Ginetta in one of the public car parks and (grudgingly) had to pay to get in.

[cirks]

The P4 replica is pretty stunning (if not pretty). Pity a lot of kit cars get tarnished with the same brush as there are brilliant and awful examples of 'original' kit cars as well as replicas.

I'm not reopening threads about whether replicas should be allowed!

[kerniki]

Wonder if there'll ever be a TVR replica?

>> Edited by kerniki on Friday 17th May 17:17

[McReis]

Sure some cars may look nice, but most of them are just horrific!!!

[Botthom]

I didn't know the De Tomaso Pantera was originally a kit car

[Farmer]

The Pantera was such a good looking car untill somebody tried to Countach-it-up, pity , Ironicly the Countach itself looked so much better in its' earlier guises (sp?)as well , as for kit cars, well there is no accounting for taste or common sense . one mans meat etc etc . Most are not "horrific", some are , but SVA has killed of the deathtraps , and several are just awesome , Ultimas are the Horniest cars ever produced , and the quality is superb , just remember where Lotus started out

[grahambell]

And TVR. And Marcos.

[s2 giles]

Someone above asked if they'd ever be a TVR replica ?

About 2 years ago at a kit car show, a small manufacturer was taking orders for a Griffith replica !!!

I never saw one after that show so I guess they didnt get into production, either that or TVR put the kybosh on it. Goog thing really, copying only dilutes the products.

[Guido66]

There is a Trident for sale at:

www.tvrclassics.nl/index.php?id=3&command=lijst&config=artlijst

[mondieu]

what model/version of the trident is the one at the Kit show? Can you buy them? or are they silly money?

[grahambell]

Might be wrong, but think it's a Venturer. Prices seem to range from about £8500 for a really good one to about £1000 for a really tatty one. That's when you can actually find one for sale as there aren't many about.