Back to 1970 and the first design by the genius that is RICHARD OAKES – the TRAMP beach buggy.
Steve Hole tells the story of the buggy based on an un-modified VW Beetle floorpan. Unusally and refreshingly for the day it wasn’t ‘inspired’ by […]
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THE STORY OF OGLE DESIGN AND A TRIBUTE TO DAVID OGLE DSC MBE
This time in Classic Kit Cars & Specials STEVE HOLE takes a look the work of Ogle Design and also the company’s founder, David Ogle. […]
LOTUS ELAN FASTBACK PROTOTYPE
A short but VERY sweet Classic Kit Cars & Specials feature for you this week. STEVE HOLE highlights a very special historic Lotus, a model […]
THE WB 120 SPECIAL
Steve Hole tells the story of the glorious WB120 Special built between 1957-1963 A delightful little machine, conceived in 1957, called the WB 120 Special, […]
THE GILBERN T11 STORY
STEVE HOLE looks at the marvellous Gilbern T11 … This time in Classic Kit Cars & Specials we look at a Gilbern model that never […]
ELVA GT160 – SO NEAR YET SO FAR
STEVE HOLE tells the story of the Elva GT160 Coupé of 1964. Crikey, that makes the design 62 years old. Amazing. I think most specialist […]
THE TMC-COSTIN – A FRANK COSTIN DESIGN BUILT IN IRELAND
STEVE HOLE tells the story of another superb car from the late legend that was Frank Costin called the TMC-COSTIN. The late Frank Costin was […]
THE STORY OF THE BENSPORT LE SARTHE SPECIAL
Steve Hole tells the story of a lovely Bentley Special called BENSPORT LE SARTHE I love the vintage Bentley scene and the cars based on […]
ALONG CAME A SPIDER – HUNTSMAN SPYDER ALFA ROMEO
STEVE HOLE tells the story of Graham Smith’s Huntsman Spyder Alfa Romeo Electronics engineer Graham Smith was born in Victoria, Australia in 1947 and graduated […]
REMEMBERING THE S&J MILANO AND SPORTIVA
STEVE HOLE tells the story of an all-but-forgotten, but very accomplished East Sussex-based kitcar manufacturer called S&J Motor Engineers. Another all-but forgotten eighties kitcar manufacturer […]