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A very warm welcome to totalkitcar online … Our good friend at MINIKITS, Paul Wylde, has been on with the following:
“Come along to see us at the Spring season opener, the Practical Classics Classic Car & Restoration Show from March 2026, March 20-22 at the NEC,Birmingham.
Minikits is an online-based group who celebrate Mini-based kitcars and their derivatives.
Get the dates in your diary and book in advance at www.necrestorationshow.com quoting CCMINKTM6 to save £3.50 off single-day adult tickets or £2 off family, child & multi-day tickets.
Book by February 26 and you’ll help us earn additional benefits. Club discount applied to advance ticket prices before midnight on March 19 and show open ticket prices thereafter, full ticket information at: www.necrestorationshow.com/ticket-information.”
Lovely discount offer there. Paul and his colleagues at Minikits always put on a great display at events and usually have some rare stuff on their stand, too. The only kitcar-based club to have won stand of the show (twice).
Yet more discounted tickets – Simon Bennie, organiser of the new Replica and Self Build Festival taking place at Stoneleigh Park on July 18-19 has kindly offered TKC MAG/totalkitcar.com readers a 30 per cent discount on admission tickets, if booked before the end of February 2026.
Just go the bookings page – link below – and enter ‘TKC30’ to get your discounted tickets.
Just go to the website https://carshowco.com/replica/replica-self-build-festival-tickets/
AVAILABLE NOW – TKC MAG JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026
We’ve kicked off 2026 with the JAN/FEB issue and we have plenty of features to entertain, inform and highlight.
MINPREZA – Jason MacDonald of Scoobybits is a proper automotive Frankenstein and his latest creation – MinPreza – mixes Classic Mini and Subaru Impreza to create a complete monster.
WESTFIELD SE.NA FIRST DRIVE – We were invited to the official launch of the Se.NA back in October and what a beautiful machine it is.
JBA FALCON – IN PROFILE – A classic kitcar if ever there was one. We look at the car’s history, the different variants and the men behind the project.
STANBURY TT – An all but forgotten kit car from the eighties that probably deserved to do better that deserved a little feature in the mag. However, we then spotted a rare survivor with a great back story at a car show and … well, the feature ended up bigger than originally intended.
INTRODUCING HUMBLE NOMAD AUTOMOTIVE – Taking over the excellent Vortex V2 project is more than newsworthy but newcomers Humble Nomad have a very ambitious ten-year plan …
INDUSTRY GREATS – ANTHONY TAYLOR AND AUTOTUNE – We are absolutely delighted to be featuring the amazing career of Anthony Taylor, co-founder of Autotune. If that wasn’t enough, Anthony is a very handy driver in historic motorsport, he was also on the grid of the first ever kitcar race in 1984, is a world expert on McLaren’s Can-Am Group 7 cars and a well-respected racing car restorer.
CATERHAM SEVEN SUPERSPRINT 2000 – Another heritage Seven, but this one has real attitude! Normally powered by 660cc three-pot Suzuki engines, this one has a 2-litre Duratec. A welcome fusion or just plain confusion?
NEW RELEASE – TKC MAG – JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026 AVAILABLE NOW
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.
Classic Kit Cars & Specials has a new home at totalkitcar.com.
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.
In this instalment of CLASSIC KIT CARS & SPECIALS we look at the Elva GT160, a car that really deserved to succeed rather than be limited to just three prototypes. It’s a great story though so CLICK HERE to go there.
Incidentally, if you click on the link to the right (CLASSIC KIT CARS & SPECIALS) you’ll be transported to the landing page where you’ll find a smorgasbjord of over 100 features. Enjoy.
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The book is out probably towards the end of April 2026 (exact date tbc). That’s all I am allowed to say at the moment.
Our popular TRACKDAY CALENDAR is where you can find out where, when and how much by CLICKING HERE. Now updated to cover JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2026.
SNIPPETS 1 ……. Iconic Auctioneers will offer four cars from Richard Hammond’s personal collection during Race Retro:
Ford Escort RS2000 Mk2 – freshly restored
MG B GT race car – Hammond’s own
1933 Riley Alpine Tourer – rare and full of character
304bhp DriveTribe MINI Cooper S – instantly recognisable
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SNIPPETS 2 ……..If you fancy having a full tour of the Great British Sports Cars factory at Ollerton, Nottinghamshire there is still time to book your place for this coming Saturday (January 31 – 10am-3pm).
GBS co-director Ruth Hall said: “We are pleased to be opening our factory doors again to enable people to see at first-hand the artisan skills and latest modern technology that goes into each Zero sportscar, plus also the products that we design and manufacture in-house.
“The GBS guided tour is exciting and real, visitors are guided through every workshop including our new fabrication department by an experienced and knowledgeable tour guide. If you are interested in motorsport, design, engineering, fabrication or are thinking of building a Zero then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.”
Bookings have to be made prior to the event and can not be booked on the day. More from www.greatbritishsportscars.com or call 01623 860 990.
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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 6, 2026
Best regards
Steve