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CHESIL SPEEDSTER Classic formula given a new twist

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LOONY ASBO UNLEASHED SWEDISH DIESEL ONE-OFF Latest caged car A different way created at home of thinking

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Chesil Speedster Swedish Olme Spider ASBO One Off Dax 427 Build Focus on – Cooling Drilling Techniques Two Dax Rushes

NEW CARS ONE-OFFS ROAD TESTS BUILDS WORKSHOP EVENTS CLASSIFIEDS

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OUR STAND AT the last kit car show of 2010 was positively groaning with new products! I know it’s self-indulgent, but let me draw your attention to some of the items you may want to add to your Christmas list...

CKC Survival Pack: Our annual guide to all the big players in the industry also includes an up to date resumé of the IVA regulations, registration and so much more. And as an added bonus, you’ll also get a free CKC Calendar and some exclusive CKC postcards.

How To Build A Haynes Roadster: This is a compendium of all the features we ran on Ashley Gardiner’s build of a Haynes Roadster last year, with his additional features on welding. All repackaged in a new bookazine, it’s a superb reference for anyone considering building a car from scratch (and good value at just £7.95).

CKC Calendar: You get this for free within the Survival Pack, but you can also buy it as a stand alone product. Not only does it have some great pictures, but it also includes all the major kit car show dates for 2011.

CKC Mug: The demand for last year’s exclusive CKC mug outstripped supply, so we’ve come up with a brand new design. As before, we’ll even throw in a free teabag and sweet!

You’ll find all of these Christmas fillers on the CKC website... www.completekitcar.co.uk

Editor’s choice...

CHESIL WITH A DIFFERENCE Great news that Chesil’s back building kits... and with optional new chassis. p16

OLME SPYDER FROM SWEDEN Love this story of building a car from a very different perspective. p28

ANOTHER ONE-OFF CAGE CAR Robin Davies’s one-off caged car is the neatest we’ve seen. p48

WILD WORLD OF DRILLING! It’s not the most exciting topic we’ve covered, but it is essential reading. p76

DAX RUSH DOUBLE TAKE Apart from the steering wheel position, these two Rushes are identical! p88

Ian Stent Editor ian@performance publishing.co.uk

MEET THE TEAM Your kit car specialists EDITOR Ian Stent

FEATURES EDITOR Adam Wilkins

TECHNICAL EDITOR John Dickens

AUTO STYLIST Italo Sciacca

CV – Built two kit cars, owned eight others, driven virtually every type of kit car produced over the last 20 years.

CV – Built a Sylva Riot. Raced a Tiger Avon for five years. Kit car journo for nine years.

CV – Has run a kit car as his only car since 1980! Designed unique fibreglass chassis and suspension for his GTM Coupé. Very clever!

CV – Studied car and product design and has worked as a design consultant on many cars.

“I’ve not driven a Chesil for some years and I’m wondering whether it might feel... a little underwhelming.”

“The two cars make for a surreal sight. Same colour, same wheels, same engine... seing double is something we’re not used to.”

“The correct drill speed and pressure will not only produce quicker and more accurate results but also extend drill bit life.”

“After some consideration to the potential market I decided to sketch a body that was a more extreme ‘rock crawler’ 4x4.”

Chesil p16

Dax Rush p86

Drilling Techniques p76

Designer Threads p40

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MONTHLY COLUMNIST Tiff Needell

CV – Currently presenting Channel 5’s Fifth Gear. Previously a Top Gear presenter and been a top flight race driver since the mid ’70s.

“If I were to build my own dream car then, for the sound alone, it would have to be normally aspirated.”

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In this issue FIRST DRIVE

READER’S CAR

g seriously modifyin Robin has been and building one-off In best sums up production cars years. last thirty or forty underst ined specials for the Robin Davies’ He ‘just’ ionised a mid-eng over last winter. the ’80s he product t 205s, car he created at the recent for rallying Peugeo paddock area rwd conversion for customers. drove into the beasts chance the off of the on Day building twelve custom bike CKC/Omex Track e (he a time building a space availabl He then spent Design there might be out that setting up Trike one!). It turned frames before business grabbed the last shop.com) with himself build to nkschop (www.ha k in the late he’d ‘just’ decided no long‘Hank’ Hancoc winter (no plans, partner Martin off-road something last , he built go karts, tion), subsequently ’90s. In between Boyzone) winded prepara four Shane Lynch of project in ‘just’ buggies (one for ery. completing the and of mad machin sort-of did it... a few and all manner months. Hi ‘just’ Track Day out of Trike Design ex sold he CKC/Om While a hands-on everyone at the ‘Just’ still involved on away by the car. years ago, he’s with special was ‘just’blown bikes g! basis, often building fallen off usly bloody amazin bikers who’ve the most meticulo adaptations for now need This is certainly machines and hly resolved one-off their two-wheeled finished and thoroug across. And when I specialised. more ng come somethi has the caged cars we’ve later, it then, that he’s a month or so Little question, much meet up with him Robin has a to assemble pretty apparent that for skill set required soon becomes ce that three or four wheels, ge and experien anything with two, dirt! others level of knowled circuit, road or advantage over use on the race little gives him an instant he might do a r such a bold project.

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Chesil IF ONE LOOKS for good news stories within the kit industry over the last couple of years, then the return of the Chesil Motor Company and its pretty Porsche Speedster replica must surely be up there fighting for the top slot. Lost to the kit car industry in 2005, when the company was sold and the new owners saw turnkey cars as the future, carnage ensued. The new operation was seemingly in trouble within months, with a new company, Tygan, emerging with even grander plans and eventually uttering its last gasps towards the end of 2008.

All the while, original Chesil owner Peter Bailey had been keeping an

The Chesil Speedster made a welcome return to kit production at the beginning of 2009, and now it can offer a state of the art composite chassis package.

Ian Stent has driven the new car.

increasingly exasperated watch on proceedings. The company he’d built into a leading light within the kit car scene over a period of fifteen years, was being ground into the dust. Desperate owners of existing kits were contacting him because they were getting nowhere trying to obtain parts from the existing owners.

It wasn’t long before the phone rang with Tygan’s administrators on the other end... might he be interested in taking the project back?

Not keen to see a big chunk of his life’s work fizzle into nothing, Peter struck a deal and the Speedster was once again under the Chesil Motor Company banner, and once again available in a kit format. Hooray!

After five years in the wilderness, it’s as though the company never left us.

Chesil operates from exactly the same buildings and address as before, even the phone number and website remain the

The Speedster’s styling may be timeless, but there’s something brand new underneath.

same. And with the original moulds and jigs back in their rightful place on the Dorset coast, it’s little wonder that the Speedster itself is... exactly the same.

And we can be thankful for that, because the Chesil Speedster ranks at the very top of the industry for quality. The kit package is superbly well developed, the quality of the bodywork is top notch and the level of fit and finish in the interior is beyond reproach. It’s as thoroughly developed as any kit can hope to be.

And that’s exactly what you can order today. Based on the tried and tested shortened Beetle floorpan, the Chesil Speedster works beautifully. While the concept of building a fibreglass kit bodyshell on the VW floorpan may be as old as the kit car industry itself, it has never worked better than here. The original Porsche Speedster featured effectively the same underpinnings, even down to the air-cooled flat-four engine, so as replicas go, it’s a match made in heaven.

I’ve not driven a Chesil for some years, and I’m wondering whether a drive in the standard demonstrator may feel... a little underwhelming. The kit industry doesn’t stay still for long and beyond a few faithful

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Barely enough room in which to sqeeze all this month’s vital news.

Building a one-off in Sweden is difficult. But Ove Bengtsson did it!

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Is the noise your car makes important to you? Tiff thinks so.

All the latest news from the vibrant kit car club world.

16 FIRST DRIVE – CHESIL A brand new chassis option brings the Beetle based Chesil bang up to date.

23 LETTERS Here’s your chance to make your point about anything kit car related.

24 OUT & ABOUT – EXETER SHOW Loads going on at the recent Exeter kit car show. Here’s what you missed.

37 EVENTS DIARY Updated every month, your guide to 2011 big events.

40 DESIGNER THREADS Italo Sciacca gets his pens dirty imagining a radical off-road kit car.

44 RACE DIARIES The competition season is drawing to a close, but there’s still plenty to do.

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Ove Bengtsson’s environmentally conscious diesel-powered one-off sports car had to meet stringent assessments throughout the build before he could drive it in his home country of Sweden. Ian Stent reports.

SHORTLY AFTER OVE Bengtsson left school he built himself a car based on Simca Aronde running gear in 1963.

It was the start of a lifetime of building stuff, not all of it car related. Having designed a 30ft sailing yacht as part of his Mechanical Engineering degree at university, he then built the steel hulled craft shortly after, using it for much of the

Robin Davies’ absolutely stunning one-off ASBO caged roadster.

Ove Bengtsson’s Olme Spyder

Ove Bengtsson’s mid-engined roadster sports a 1.3-litre turbo diesel for a clear environmental conscience.

’70s. In the decades that followed, he converted a number of VW and Peugeot vans into increasingly spacious motorhomes as family life took hold.

The Bengtsson troupe travelled in modified style all over Europe!

More recently, Ove then turned his hand to building a commercial go-kart track (yes, really!) before selling up in

2007 and beginning to make some plans for the car you see here.

There was a time when building such a car would have been impossible in Sweden. Previous governments had simply applied the standard European Type Approval regulations... so a crash test was hardly a practical solution for a one-off, even before you consider the millions it would have cost to complete the tests! But in a rather encouraging turn of events, a change of government in 1982 bought into power a Minister for Transport who was more open to the idea of low volume manufacture. More importantly, a concerted lobbying effort by group of respected engineers ended up creating a situation whereby homebuilt

cars could be created, if they met certain criteria and went through an assessment and inspection process during the assembly period.

Remarkably, these initial assessments are carried out not by a government department but instead the Swedish Vehicle Builders’ National Organisation (SVBNO), a group set-up by the aforementioned lobbyists and which is totally self-funded by the costs applied to the tests themselves (interestingly, around £400, so not far off our own IVA test). After these tests and a final assessment and sign off by the relevant government agency, a car is allocated a registration in exactly the same way as any conventional mass manufactured offering. It sounds a little like the process of monitoring that’s applied to building an kit aeroplane over here.

For Ove, building a sports car was one of those things he’d always wanted to do, but never quite managed to achieve.

“I’ve always fancied a sports car like this,” he says. “I was doing family cars before, but

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You’re not seeing double... these are two identical Rushes.

94 CLASSIFIEDS It’s free to advertise and the pages are updated every month. a sports car never left my heart.”

With the go-kart track sold, Ove had time on his hands. “I’m not a racer,” he explains. “What I really wanted was a small, special car, with reasonable performance, very good fuel consumption and little environmental impact.” This slightly unusual set of criteria (for most UK enthusiasts), steered him towards a small capacity turbo-charged diesel installation.

A mid-engined configuration ticked the box marked exotic supercar credentials and, of course, it had to be a roadster.

But before he’d even lifted anything heavier than a pencil and ruler, Ove needed to make contact with the SVBNO, supply them with some design sketches and chat through his plans. This was an important opening stage, whereby the

Professional exterior design the work of students from Olmea University.

Engine and almost all donor parts sourced from 1.3 DTCi Vauxhall Agila.

organisation would consider the merits of what he presented and discuss any areas they were less than happy with. But having negotiated this initial consultancy stage, Ove was free to get busy with his Mig welder!

Actually, first he had to find a donor car, which is impossible in Sweden if you want to buy anything that has been written off... it’s against the law. So he had to go to Germany in search of a car, initially hoping to find a diesel VW Lupo, but more than happy to come across a 1.3-litre CDTi Opel Agila which had been rolled just three months after hitting the road, and with a paltry 8700kms on the clock. It was barely run-in!

The plan for the Olme Roadster, as he had decided to call it (and named after

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Fulcrum Build Pt 1

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Tech Talk

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STAFF CAR Updates The CKC editorial team all run kit cars. Not all are on the road, but we are trying to get them there... eventually! proceed quickly. My most recent purchase is a pair of caster shims for the front suspension.

The VW front suspension is very unusual. The suspension uprights, wheels and brakes move up and down on two short trailing arms. The front end of each trailing arm is clamped to a multi leaf torsion bar spring which runs across the car inside a large diameter torsion tube.

Each torsion bar is clamped in the centre of the tube effectively dividing it into two shorter springs and allowing each trailing arm to be independently sprung.

On my car the two torsion tubes are simply clamped to the front chassis rails with large split ‘U’ clamps. ‘Cal look’ Beetles and, in my opinion, the UVA Fugitive tend to look better with the front end of the car sitting lower than the rear.

Unfortunately, modifying the attitude of the car in this way also affects all the steering and suspension angles. In particular it reduces the caster angle of the front wheels significantly (pic left).

This has the effect of reducing the selfcentring action of the steering and also the weight or feel of the steering through the steering wheel.

A number of VW tuning specialists sell special caster shims to cure this problem. These are shaped pieces of alloy which are fitted in the split clamp behind the lower torsion tube. This has the effect of pushing the lower tube forwards and restoring the correct caster angle (pic top right).

I picked mine up from Retro Dubs on

The caster shim

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shape of the shim is actually quite complicated.

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Position: Technical Editor Running: UVA Fugitive Outgoings this month? £9 shims

Although I’m still not able to do much practical work on the car I am continuing to accumulate parts so that when work does actually start in earnest it should

The basic design of the Beetle front suspension.

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split clamps holding the torsion bars on to the UVA chassis rails The actual torsion tubes and clamps on my car.

56 DAX 427 BUILD – PART ONE Mike Dean has built the ultimate Dax 427.

This is how he did it.

Position: Editor Running: CC Cyclone, Ginetta G26 Outgoings this month? None

THE SIMPLE ANSWER is that I’ve not managed to do any work on the Cyclone recently, however, I have had to push the car outside to make way for Wilkins’ Riot recently, which stayed over while we had the recent Exeter show. On the day after the show, Adam and I worked on it together to change the springs. Over to Adam to explain more...

ADAM WILKINS

their eBay shop for just under £9.

Although the idea is straightforward, the shims themselves are not as simple as they look. They are not just segments cut from a piece of tubing. They have a crescent shaped cross section to correctly fit between the split clamp and the torsion tube.

Work is still progressing on the bike. I am now doing the wiring and although this is a time consuming process I am consoling myself with the thought that I am getting close to approaching the beginning of the final stages of being near to finishing. When it’s done I’m looking forward to bolting shiny new bits and pieces onto the Fugitive instead of the bike.

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Position: Features Editor Running: Sylva Riot, Sylva Striker, Spartan Treka Outgoings this month? £32 (new springs)

FOR AGES, I’VE been meaning to change the springs on the Riot for softer ones. In fact, the new ones have been sat in a box in the office for over a year. So when Ian suggested I bring them to Exeter so I could stop off at his house the day after Exeter, I lept at the chance. On a sunny October day, we pushed his Cyclone onto to drive and wheeled the Riot into his tidy, wellorganised garage (an environment in stark contrast to what I have at home!).

The reason for the change is because, on a bumpy country lane, the rear feels too firm and unsettled over mid-corner undulations. The original spring rates were 200lb/in front and 300lb/in rear. Having since driven a Sylva demonstrator with 100 fronts and 200 rears, I elected to change mine. Sylva’s Jeremy Phillips admits he chose the softer springs for comfort, but it did seem to quell the problem my car suffered.

Before we started, we measured the ride height front and rear so it could be returned to spec after the job was finished.

At 120mm rear and 95mm front, it has settled by 15mm all round since its initial

set-up in 2008.

With the car up on axle stands, we set to work removing the front dampers, unscrewing the spring seats and swapping over the springs. Tricky access aside (they’re inboard, remember), it went quite smoothly. Same story with the offside rear, although this damper benefitted from a scrub with a wire brush. Being more exposed, it’s a bit grotty after 19,000 miles of mixed-weather driving.

The nearside one had suffered more.

The spring platform had corroded solidly to the body of the damper. After copious sprays of WD40, it still didn’t budge. We went for lunch while some more WD40 soaked in, but it was still seized solid on our return. Eventually, we removed it by placing Ian’s vice on the floor and using the jack handle as a lever on the Cspanner. Even so, Ian’s efforts on the lever were lifting my 11-stone that were perched on the end of the vice.

Next problem? The damping adjuster was also seized solid. We removed the grub screw that holds the knob itself to the inner screw/shaft. More WD40 and some strenuous efforts with mole grips resulted in the dial coming loose! Luckily, nothing broke. Keeping safe the tiny ball bearing and spring that provide the ‘clicks’ for adjustment, Ian scraped out the corroded metal with a screwdriver before adding some grease and carefully reassembling the components. Because of the grease, the clicks aren’t quite as defined as they were, but it works and is hopefully a bit more resistant to corrosion than it was before! Back it went on the car and it was time to reset the ride height.

Because the rear of the car was now sitting lower on its softer springs, there wasn’t enough thread on the damper body to return it to its original height. Instead, it’s set as high as possible, with the front lowered correspondingly.

The dampers were originally set to zero click (effectively in the ‘off’ position) and we’ve currently set them to two clicks up front and four clicks at the back. I’m yet to take the car down any bumpy lanes to provide a conclusion as to whether the

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Riot up on axle stands in Ian’s garage.

New spring alongside the old.

One new front

sprint fitted. This was straightforward – unlike the nearside rear!

changes are significant. On the main roads and motorway drive back to Kent from Somerset, it feels much the same over motorway undulations, while there’s a little more body roll through roundabouts. What I really need to do it take it down a bumpy country lane, where the previous weakness was revealed, and see if it feels more settled. I’ll have done that before the next issue deadline.

Adam Wilkins

Exposed rear dampers both corroded after 19,000 all-weather miles. pole required on C-spanner to get the spring platform to budge.

Long

Damper adjuster

had to be dismantled as it had seized. These are the tiny components from inside.

Scraping out the corrosion inside the adjuster before reassembly.

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Drilling Techniques

Got a technical question you need an answer to?

Look no further.

It may seem obvious and completely devoid of technique, but as John Dickens explains, for best results you need to how how to use a drill and drill bit properly.

68 FOCUS ON – COOLING Where to find all the parts you need to keep your car cool.

In the normal course of car building, maintenance and repair or in any household DIY work, one of the most common requirements will be to drill a hole in some material.

In kit car work the materials you are most likely to come across will be mild steel, stainless steel, GRP, aluminium and occasionally wood.

Strictly speaking, each of these materials requires slightly different drill specifications and techniques

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along with increased pressure to keep the drill cutting. Cutting lubricants are also helpful.

LUBRICATION Cast iron and brass can be drilled dry but most metals are easier to drill if a cutting lubricant is used.

The lubricant cools the tool and reduces friction at the cutting edges. This makes the drilling process easier and extends the

Metric step drills.

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useful life of the drill bit significantly.

In industry, the cutting fluid is normally an emulsion of soluble oil and water which is continuously pumped onto the cutting tool. For our purposes regularly applying the lubricant from an oil can or using a small brush will be fine. Any oil is better than none but you will get better results using a proper cutting fluid (Fig 2). They have specific additives to reduce friction under

A hole saw set intended for woodworking.

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extreme pressure, unlike normal motor oils.

Apply the fluid before you start to drill and re-apply it frequently, especially if smoke appears from the drill. The same cutting oil can be used on all metals, although the recommended cutting fluid for aluminium is actually paraffin.

Cutting fluid is also useful if you have to cut threads using a tap or a die.

My heavy duty hole saw set.

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for the best results. For example, the ideal point angle is different for each material (Fig 1).

Table 1 shows the recommended point angle for common materials.

In practice, however, most drills are

TABLE 2 Drill

Steel

Aluminium

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A spur point bit drills wood without splintering.

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1820

Cast iron

90 to 118

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1820

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90 to 118

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1350

Plastics

What’s been happening in our garages over the last month.

depends on the diameter of the drill and the material being machined.

In general harder materials and larger drills need slower drill speeds. Table 2 shows the correct drill speeds for some common drill sizes and materials.

Stainless steel is slightly trickier to drill as it work hardens very quickly, especially if the drill is allowed to skid on the surface. To avoid this, slower drill speeds are needed

One litre of this cutting fluid will probably last me forever.

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A 5mm and a 3mm twist drill.

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An auger bit is designed for use in a hand drill.

Flat wood bits will produce large clean holes in wood.

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The drilling technique is far more important though. The correct drill speed and pressure will not only produce quicker, cleaner and more accurate results but will also greatly

The point angle is the angle between the cutting edges.

extend the life of the drill bit.

Running a drill bit too fast will cause it to overheat and will blunt or chip the cutting edges very quickly. The correct drill speed

Markings show this as a 12mm high speed steel drill bit.

A masonry drill with tungsten carbide cutting tips.

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A typical centre punch.

Marking out the material with a scriber prior to drilling.

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Centre punching the steel surface.

A titanium nitride coated drill. Coating is starting to wear.

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IF ONE LOOKS for good news stories within the kit industry over the last couple of years, then the return of the Chesil Motor Company and its pulchritudinous Porsche Speedster replica must surely be up there fighting for the top slot. Lost to the kit car industry in 2005, when the company was sold and the new owners saw turnkey cars as the future, carnage ensued. The new operation was seemingly in trouble within months, with a new company, Tygan, emerging with even grander plans and eventually uttering its last gasps towards the end of 2008.

All the while, original Chesil owner Peter Bailey had been keeping an

increasingly exasperated watch on proceedings. The company he’d built into a leading light within the kit car scene over a period of fifteen years, was being ground into the dust. Desperate owners of existing kits were contacting him because they were getting nowhere trying to obtain parts from the existing management.

It wasn’t long before Peter’s phone rang – Tygan’s administrators were on the other end... might he be interested in taking the project back?

Not keen to see a big chunk of his life’s work fizzle into nothing, Peter struck a deal and the Speedster was once again under the Chesil Motor Company banner, and once again available in a kit format. Hooray!

After five years in the wilderness, it’s as though the company never left us.

Chesil operates from exactly the same buildings and address as before, even the phone number and website remain the

The Speedster’s styling may be timeless, but there’s something brand new underneath.

same. And with the original moulds and jigs back in their rightful place on the Dorset coast, it’s little wonder that the Speedster itself is... exactly the same.

And we can be thankful for that, because the Chesil Speedster ranks at the very top of the industry for quality. The kit package is superbly well developed, the quality of the bodywork is top notch and the level of fit and finish in the interior is beyond reproach. It’s as thoroughly developed as any kit can hope to be.

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READER’S CAR

Ove Bengtsson’s Olme Spyder

Ove Bengtsson’s environmentally conscious diesel-powered one-off sports car had to meet stringent assessments throughout the build before he could drive it in his home country of Sweden. Ian Stent reports.

SHORTLY AFTER OVE Bengtsson left school he built himself a car based on Simca Aronde running gear in 1963. It was the start of a lifetime of building stuff, not all of it car related. Having designed a 30ft sailing yacht as part of his Mechanical Engineering degree at university, he then built the steel hulled craft shortly after, using it for much of the

Ove Bengtsson’s mid-engined roadster sports a 1.3-litre turbo diesel for a clear environmental conscience.

’70s. In the decades that followed, he converted a number of VW and Peugeot vans into increasingly spacious motorhomes as family life took hold. The Bengtsson troupe travelled in modified style all over Europe!

More recently, Ove then turned his hand to building a commercial go-kart track (yes, really!) before selling up in

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2007 and beginning to make some plans for the car you see here.

There was a time when building such a car would have been impossible in Sweden. Previous governments had simply applied the standard European Type Approval regulations... so a crash test was hardly a practical solution for a one-off, even before you consider the millions it would have cost to complete the tests! But in a rather encouraging turn of events, a change of government in 1982 bought into power a Minister for Transport who was more open to the idea of low volume manufacture. More importantly, a concerted lobbying effort by a group of respected engineers ended up creating a situation whereby homebuilt

cars could be created, if they met certain criteria and went through an assessment and inspection process during the assembly period.

Remarkably, these initial assessments are carried out not by a government department but instead the Swedish Vehicle Builders’ National Organisation (SVBNO), a group set up by the aforementioned lobbyists and which is totally self-funded by the costs applied to the tests themselves (interestingly, around £400, so not far off our own IVA test). After these tests and a final assessment and sign off by the relevant government agency, a car is allocated a registration in exactly the same way as any conventional mass manufactured offering. It sounds a little like the process of monitoring that’s applied to building a kit aeroplane over here.

For Ove, building a sports car was one of those things he’d always wanted to do, but previously never quite managed to achieve.

“I’ve always fancied a sports car like this,” he says. “I was doing family cars before, but a sports car never left my heart.”

With the go-kart track sold, Ove had time on his hands. “I’m not a racer,” he explains. “What I really wanted was a small, special car, with reasonable performance, very good fuel consumption and little environmental impact.” This slightly unusual set of criteria (for most UK enthusiasts), steered him towards a small capacity turbocharged diesel installation.

A mid-engined configuration ticked the box marked exotic supercar credentials and, of course, it had to be a roadster.

But before he’d even lifted anything heavier than a pencil and ruler, Ove needed to make contact with the SVBNO, supply them with some design sketches and chat through his plans. This was an important opening stage, whereby the

Professional exterior design the work of students from Umeå University.

organisation would consider the merits of what he presented and discuss any areas they were less than happy with. But having negotiated this initial consultancy stage, Ove was free to get busy with his Mig welder!

Actually, first he had to find a donor car, which is impossible in Sweden if you want to buy anything that has been written off... it’s against the law. So he had to go to Germany in search of a car, initially hoping to find a diesel VW Lupo, but more than happy to come across a 1.3-litre CDTi Opel Agila which had been rolled just three months after hitting the road, and with a paltry 8700kms on the clock. It was barely run-in!

The plan for the Olme Roadster, as he had decided to call it (and named after

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Robin Davies’ ASBO

Robin Davies decided to build himself a one-off caged car over the winter, and just four months later he’d put in for his IVA test.

CKC’s editor met him and drove his creation.

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‘JUST’ IS THE word that best sums up Robin Davies’ understated attitude to the car he created over last winter. He ‘just’ drove into the paddock area at the recent CKC/Omex Track Day on the off chance there might be a space available (he grabbed the last one!). It turned out that he’d ‘just’ decided to build himself something last winter (no plans, no longwinded preparation), subsequently completing the project in ‘just’ four months. He ‘just’ sort-of did it... and everyone at the CKC/Omex Track Day was ‘just’ blown away by the car. ‘Just’ bloody amazing!

This is certainly the most meticulously finished and thoroughly resolved one-off caged car we’ve come across. And when I meet up with him a month or so later, it soon becomes apparent that Robin has a level of knowledge and experience that gives him an instant advantage over others who may consider such a bold project.

Being a fabricator and welder by trade is unquestionably helpful, but there’s rather more to it than that.

Robin has been seriously modifying production cars and building one-off specials for the last thirty or forty years. In the ’80s he productionised a mid-engined rwd conversion for rallying Peugeot 205s, building twelve of the beasts for customers.

He then spent a time building custom bike frames before setting up Trike Design (www.hankschopshop.com) with business partner Martin ‘Hank’ Hancock in the late ’90s. In between, he built go karts, off-road buggies (one for Shane Lynch of Boyzone) and all manner of mad machinery.

While he sold out of Trike Design a few years ago, he’s still involved on a hands-on basis, often building bikes with special adaptations for bikers who’ve fallen off their two-wheeled machines and now need something more specialised.

Little question, then, that he has the skill set required to assemble pretty much anything with two, three or four wheels, for use on the race circuit, road or dirt!

With an idea that he might do a little competition, Robin visited a few kit car shows and was quite seriously considering

Robin Davies’ exo one-off is the most accomplished we’ve seen to date.

building a Spire GT-R until he got sidetracked by the idea of an exoskeletal framed car. With its exposed chassis and obvious light weight, the links with the bike world were clear, but he wasn’t convinced by what he saw. “None of them seemed to be finished,” he comments. The Arial Atom’s frame was too high at the side, but he liked the front end treatment of James Warner’s R4 (featured in CKC July 2010) but didn’t like the cut off tube endings on James’ car. It meant only one thing... he just had to build his own car.

The design brief was minimal. He wanted it as short as possible, with a bike engine in the back and with curving tubular framework wherever possible... and no cut-off ends. He didn’t do any technical drawings, but instead borrowed a couple of fibreglass seats from work, put them on the garage floor and began assembling tubes and a Suzuki GSXR1000 engine around him.

The tube bending was done by a local firm in slightly thicker tubing than he’d ideally wanted, being 2mm wall thickness 2in tubing, instead of 1.5mm tubing. The latter deformed when bent through the radiuses he was after. The slight increase in weight is something he was happy to live with, since the car was never going be heavy!

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COLIN COOPER ISN’T a man who does things by halves – he does them in doubles!

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Today, I meet Colin at his house and we take his Rush on the half hour or so journey to the workshop where Martin’s car is stored. Colin’s Rush looks very familiar in its striking orange paint, but it’s only when I almost get into the wrong side that I realise that this isn’t the one I watched being put together at Goodwood. This left-hand-drive car is destined for Colin’s house in Spain, and the only difference between this one and its sister car is the side on which the driver sits.

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JAGO JEEP 2-litre Pinto, Weber carb, 4-speed box. Lots of new parts including rad, spark plugs, HT leads, dizzy cap. Correctly registered on Q, no passenger seat, no MoT or tax. Starts first time and drives. Would suggest using trailer or courier. £650 ono. T: 07599 626643 F1110 (Middlesex).

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£2001 to £5000

Aluminium bodied, 1600cc Mexico engine, only 50 miles. Minor details need finishing, no IVA but has a year’s MoT. Oil catcher, painted black, Ripspeed wheels, 225-section tyres on rear, new clutch, detachable steering wheel, VDO dials. Cream piped seats, no expense spared, £3,900. T: 01692 405411 or 07825 448853 (Norfolk).

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cars for sale WESTFIELD SE Believed 1660cc Kent, twin Weber 40DCOEs. Brilliant white, retrimmed dark grey interior, red seats, carbon fibre tunnel top and dash, new white dials, 4-poit harnesses, new wheels and tyres, new adjustable front shocks and springs, £4995. T: Absolutely Kit Cars – 01702 231319 or 07710 266882 (T).

£5001 to £10,000

CATERHAM CLASSIC SE

TIGER SUPER SIX

Built 1996, nice condition with a Ford 1.6litre Kent GT engine. Leather seats, full hood and tonneau cover, MoT, £8500 can deliver.

T: 07798 866071 (Watford).

2007, 2-litre Zetec, space needed. Laser etching, Tiger seats, custom exhaust, comes with waterproof covers and indoor car cover.

Needs to be seen to be fully appreciated, no time wasters please, £8000. T: Paul – 07900 956006 (Staffordshire).

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JBA FALCON

1997, under 3000 miles. RX-7 rotary engine, 48 Dellorto carb, alloy lightweight flywheel, new clutch, extra second exhaust box. 15in wheels, HiSpec calipers, full weather gear, adjustable pedals, bespoke seats, Dodge Viper blue paint, £7700 offers invited.

T: 07595 480161 (Somerset).

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2.1-litre fuel injection Vulcan Pinto, 5speed, registered 1999. Two owners, classic instruments, JBA front suspension with coilover shocks and springs mated to Sierra hubs, new wheels and tyres. Outstanding condition, £6950. T: Absolutely Kit Cars – 01702 231319 or 07710 266882 (T).

SYLVA MOJO 2 Sprayed two-pack yellow, 1660 Crossflow, professionally built, twin 40s etc. Adjustable brake bias, excellent example as featured in Which Kit Car? July 2004. Any inspection welcome, great handling from a midengined car, £4500. T: 01322 662079. E: terry.francis08@btinternet.com (Kent). F1110

£2001 to £5000

Rover V8 3.5-litre, automatic.

Previously invited to shows by Dutton Club, refurbished cream leather interior. Currently SORN, non-Q, 13,240 genuine miles, have history of the vehicle including MoTs and inurance valuations, £3995 ono. T: 01507 327142 or 07821 829904 (Lincolnshire).

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VINCENT MPH Red, black interior, wire wheels, knock-off hubs, 1600cc, 4-speed box. One owner last 20 years, factory built 1987, folding screen, hood, sidescreens, tonneau. Recently rewired, full history of servicing, new MoT, many spares, £6500. T: 020 8651 5711 (Surrey).

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FISHER FURY 1.4 twin-cam Rover injection.

Blue, Le Mans style bonnet, fully fitted interior, MoT May 2011, tax September 2011, £5500 ovno. T: Neil – 01708 225913 or 07980 381223 (Essex).

MEV R2 project including moulds, jigs, drawings, chassis, body etc.

Nearly everything to complete a demo car build including all new Gaz shocks, Wilwoods, LCD dash etc. Ford Focus donor included. £Offers. Selling due to emigration.

T: Adie – 01522 859259 or 07523 495450. E: on.track@ntlworld.com

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£5000 to £10,000

Believed to be only road going Rover 3.5-litre V8, SVA’d 2003, full weather gear and sidescreens. Tax and MoT, Xtreme motoring, £9500.

T: 01322 272752 (Kent).

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EXTREMELY RARE FERRARI F40 REPLICA

Factory built car, Rosso red, black and tan leather. Correct instrumentation, Jaguar 5.3-litre V12, 5-speed manual. Power steering, electric windows, 15in Ferrari style alloys, many original Ferrari parts fitted, £27,450. T: Hallmark Cars – 020 8500 1991 (T) X1210

One of only three professionally made, Ferrari on tax disc/log book, new twin-turbo 2-litre 250bhp engine. 0-60mph in 4.9 seconds and 155mph. F1 plate, garaged, superb, £19,995 ono.

T: 020 8673 0616 (London).

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Perfect condition, SVA’d 2003.

Private plate not included, £14,950. T: 07545 207954 (Somerset).

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Always a good selection available Kit cars always wanted DAX COBRA REPLICA 502cu in Chevy V8 big block (480bh), Muncie 4-speed gearbox. Brand new stainless steel side pipes, 17in Halibrands, cream leather piped in blue. Pearlescent blue, Le Mans stripes, 3300 recorded miles, huge history file, awesome car! £28,500.

T: Hallmark Cars – 020 8500 1991 (T). X1210

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FERRARI DAYTONA SPYDER REPLICA

2-litre Zetec, 2006 factory built car, only 1500 miles. Full weather gear and tonneau, owned by myself from new. Beautiful condition, MoT May 2011, tax April 2011. Ready to enjoy at £7000. T: 01536 762788 (Northamptonshire).

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Ford Crossflow 1300 doonor, long MoT, engieer’s report.

Aluminium and fibreglass body, 15in wheels, period registration, any trial. Featured in magazine, £12,000 ono.

Two-door, four-seater, soft-top.

Rover V8 3.5-litre, new brakes, wheels and tyres. Spares included – wheels, tyres, engine parts etc, more pictures available by e-mail. £13,500. T: 01697 473615 or 07815 565881. E: richard.elton@ btinternet.com (Gateshead area).

E: jscottdavies51@msn.com (Surrey).

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DAX RUSH MC Fireblade engine, super lightweight chassis, camber compensation front, De Dion rear.

2007, all fibreglass panels in Jaguar racing green with bare aluminium. 2300 miles, Audi 17in wheels, Quaife reverse box. Dry miles, no track use, £15,500. T: 07783 895394 (Norfolk).

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LAMBORGHINI DIABLO SV

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Graham Sykes Insurance

Factory built replica, Parallel Designs V12, registered May 2009.

SmarTrack and Clifford G5 alarm, hands-free phone, air conditioning, ABS, Brembo brakes, £48,000 ono. T: 07713 117805.

E: harry@wells.uk.com (Yorkshire).

TORNADO GT40 REPLICA

DAX 427

Replica of GT40 Mk1, big block 7.5-litre V8, Audi 5-speed gearbox, transaxle. Rosejointed suspension, competition brakes.

Engineer built, £39,995. T: Total Headturners – 01992 573564 or 07711 630348 (T).

Black, silver stripes, black carpet, 18in Halibrand alloys. De Dion chassis, Chevy V8 stroked to 6.3-litre, Holley carb, 450bho, 480lb ft. Fully dressed engine bay. T: Total Headturners – 01992 573564 or 07711 630348 (T).

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Car Dealers Directory In the market for a pre-owned kit car but want the confidence that comes with buying from a dealer? Here's where you’ll find one near you.

IF YOU WANT the fun of owning a kit car, don’t fancy the task of building it yourself and can’t afford a brand new turnkey offering from the factory, then scouring the second-hand kit car market is a great place to start. Even if you like the idea of building a car at home, but lack the confidence, then owning a pre-built car can be a great way of seeing whether a build might be something you can tackle in the future. There are a number of kit car dealerships scattered around the UK, always with a good cross section of cars you can buy. You may still have to travel a reasonable distance for the right car, but our handy directory is a great place to start your kit car adventure.

Inverness

CAMBRIDGESHIRE Glasgow

Edinburgh

SEBRING INTERNATIONAL Lots Bridge Works, Three Holes, Nr Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.

PE14 9JL.

STAFFORDSHIRE

T: 01354 638678 E: sales@sebringinternational.co.uk W: www.sebringinternational.co.uk

Newscastle Belfast

M: 07976 701902 T: 01530 564266 E: andrew@toyboxcars.co.uk W: www.toyboxcars.co.uk

Hull

Leeds Manchester

ESSEX

Birmingham

TOTAL HEADTURNERS Unit 1B, Weald Place Farm, Weald Hall Lane, Thornwood Essex. Cm16 6NE.

Derby

TOYBOX SPECIALIST CARS LTD ‘Lindhome’, Woodhouse Lane, Amington, Tamworth, Staffs. B77 3AH.

Reading

TIGER RACING LIMITED Ecco New Toll Service Station, Wisbech Road, Thorney Toll, Nr. Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, PE13 4AX

Cardiff

London

T: 01992 573564 E: markharrison415@btinternet.com W: www.totalheadturners.com

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HALLMARK SPORTS CARS LTD Unit 2 , 62-70 Fowler Road, Hainault Business Park, Hainault, Essex. IG6 3UT

T: 01256 895188 E: enquiries@sovereigncarsales.co.uk W: www.sovereigncarsales.co.uk

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