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A very warm welcome to totalkitcar online … Newcomer Futura Sports Cars, official north of England agent for Great British Sportscars, has started off very well. In addition to their GBS Zero activities they also carry out general repair work with a specialisation in specialist cars, of course. If you have a kit build or completion job you need doing then they will be happy to talk to you.
The company is based in an impressive, brand new industrial units one of which serves as a showroom, the other as the workshop. As mentioned they can offer turnkey GBS Zeros and can also build a Zero to your specification.
There’s been some exciting new arrivals to our industry this year and news of Futura Sports Cars is another welcome development.
They are based in Easingwold, North Yorkshire and you can call them on 07970 685 685 or visit www.futurasportscars.co.uk or you can also email Futura boss Steve Kendall on steve@futurasportscars.co.uk.
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As we head into what is the Autumn issue (September/October 2025) we keep up the momentum with some more quality entertainment for you, the highlights of which are as follows:
BAT CARS – RB200 – Richard Batey is one of the UK’s foremost tattoo artists and one of the newest kitcar manufacturers with his Toyota MR2 Mk3-based RS200 pastiche. We were delighted to be offered the EXCLUSIVE via the first customer car, belonging to Paul Higham. You are certainly not going to miss it in its Porsche Lizard Green livery.
Here’s a Hot Car magazine front cover from 1971 showing some of their regular kitcar coverage
INDUSTRY GREATS – RAY CHRISTOPHER – Ray is one of the greats for sure. He began by building lots of notable hot rods becoming known as The Rodfather for good reason. he then became part of the leading GT40 replica maker, GT Developments plus he also had over 1000 professional wrestling bouts.
V8 STEALTH BEETLE – Perhaps the ultimate Beetle ‘sleeper’? It hails top South African engineer Jean Fourie and it’s great.
ALL ABOUT CYCLEKARTS GB – If you are not familiar with the wonderful and growing hobby of Cyclekarts get ready to be enthralled. These things are intoxicating, fascinating and great fun. They are also closely linked with our hobby
NCF Diamond was a very popular kitcar for about twenty years and, in three generations, they probably sold over 600 of them. However, the company’s best-seller was actually their Blitz model.
LOTUS DUTTON LOTUS – A fascinating tale of the very first Dutton in 1967, the Mantis. Tim based the car on what he was told was a Lotus Eleven. Years later it came into the ownership of Graham Capel, one of the UK’s most notable historic Lotus experts. Something didn’t seem right with the Dutton’s underpinnings. Graham did some digging and finally pieced a curious tale together discovering it was actually based on Lotus Mk8. A fascinating tale.
MEV EXOCET FIRST TIME BUILD – Superb first time build, which sums up the appeal of the Mazda MX-5 Mk3 donor used for the Exocet as JAMES WEBBER discovered.
JUSTIN REEVES’S DAX RUSH – Chef Justin is a serial kitcar fanatic and his latest car is a superb Rover V8-powered example of the DAX RUSH. As with all of Justin’s cars, this one is a corker.
Plus lots more besides …
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As the name suggests we look at some of the classic marques, great cars, not so great cars, plus the personalities, events and designers who have graced this wonderful industry over the last 75 years.
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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 CLASSIC KIT CARS & SPECIALS this week we tell the full story of the brilliant JBA Engineering marque and their hugely popular Falcon traditional roadster in all its guises. Hard to believe that you haven’t been able to buy one for twenty years. Still much-missed, but thanks to the enthusiastic JBA Owners Club their legacy remains. CLICK HERE to go there.
SNIPPETS 1 …….. With a warehouse spanning 60,000 sqft and more than 4000 products in stock at any given time, JRP Distribution prides itself on its availability and efficient product delivery. However, to keep up with demand, the business has modernised its operation by investing in its warehouse structure.
The warehouse capacity has been expanded with new racking that will provide 15 per cent more space for product storage and even has a robotic pallet wrapper to help the warehouse staff and increase the speed of the packaging process.
JRP Distribution has also invested in additional warehouse trucks to maximise the speed of warehouse operations and continues to increase staff numbers, meaning customers will not have to wait long for their order to be fulfilled.
JRP’s Managing Director, Ollie Page, commented: “We’ve been running as a business for nearly 45 years now and during that time we have had to adapt our systems and processes to suit needs and demands, so this is just the latest update to our business to ensure it continues to run smoothly.
“We recognise that we have an incredibly large product offering and with more continually being added to ranges, we need to be sure that we have a warehouse facility set up to store these, leading to us building more racking and storage to maximise the volumetrics, without disrupting the flow and efficiency of the warehouse.
“We know our customers desire a quick delivery, so all our investments have been to improve efficiency and create a speedier process.”
JRP has a 60,000 sqft warehouse and office in Chichester and supplies more than 4000 market leading products to various markets, with its core business focusing on the automotive sector. Its brands include Autobar, Ecomotive, Simply Brands, J-B Weld, Tecniks, Frsh Scents and Invisible Glass, amongst others.
More from https://jrpdistribution.co.uk.
SNIPPETS 2 …….. Talking of Great British Sportscars, they have a couple of their regular events coming up in October. Another Cars & Coffee taking place at their factory on Saturday, October 11 and a new one for 2025 – the GBS Halloween Pumpkin Drive Out!
It takes place on Saturday, October 25. It’s not restricted to GBS Zero owners either as all cars are welcome to join in. Just make sure you are at GBS Towers (NG22 9ZD) by 9.30am.
Find out more at www.greatbritishsportscars.com or 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 – October 10.
Best regards
Steve