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CLASSIFIEDS Lineage KIT CARS
SOLD VERY QUICKLY "Thanks to my advert in your magazine, my kit car is now sold. Thank you very much, I advertised solely in your magazine and it sold very quickly." NIGEL ISON, FORMER ROBIN HOOD OWNER
ROBIN HOOD 2.1-litre Pinto, black, chrome, 7000 miles since rebuild. Snap-off steering wheel, Dellorto carbs, full weather gear. T&T, recon engine 3000 miles ago, 1984 registration, £3300. Tel: 01524 855187 (Morecambe). DUTTON MELON Taxed and tested February 2008, blue, gold alloys, full weather gear, 1600cc Ford Crossflow engine. Good condition, £995. Tel: 01782 856918 or 07971 853747 (Stoke-onTrent).
BANHAM X21 Metro GTI based, 16in MGF wheels, low profile tyres, twin roll hoops, bucket seats, new calipers, new discs, new hydraulic hand brake kit, new Goodridge hoses, new clutch, long MoT, £1500 ono. Tel: 01458 860807 (Somerset).
JAGO GEEP 1990, Escort Mk2 based, complete and solid, off road 10 years. Good wheels, tyres, hood, doors etc. Stored in garage, £200. Tel: 07971 796238 (County Durham).
SPARTAN 2+2 2.3-litre Ford V6 base, in need of restoration, non-Q plate, 5-speed box. Wire basket wheels, knock-on caps, garaged for 10 years. Tel: 07768 612443 (Hertfordshire).
LOCOST SEVEN REPLICA Large size body, 1980 Cortine based with V5C, Cortine 2.3 V6 engine and 5-speed box. SVA tested 2002, but not yet registered. Left-hand drive, but could easily be converted. Would be fun to drive, but in need of finishing. Priced to sell at £2750 ono. Tel John: 01424 424506 (h) E-mail: 01435 812706 (w). john@sussexkitcars.co.uk (East Sussex).
JAGO GEEP Black, soft-top, 46,000 miles on recon 1600cc Crossflow engine. Taxed 12 months, MoT 11 months, electronic ignition, stainless exhaust, twin choke Weber. Mud/snow tyres, £360 ono. Tel: 01928 740327 (Chester). ONYX FIRECAT Red, Fiat 1-litre, alloy wheels, not Q-reg. Excellent condition inside and out. T&T May 2007, £1395. Tel: 01270 811762 (Nantwich).
TIGER SUPER SIX 1600 Crossflow engine, 1995, full race mods. Tuned, lots of extras, 200 race miles, never been on road, £4000. Tel: 01903 723084 (West Sussex).
PARTS FOR SALE FOUR PERFORMANCE Alloy wheels, 15in x 7J, excellent condition complete with four Kumho tyres. Power Max 215/60x15. From a Sebring, £250. Tel: 01474 52261 or 07866 506829 (Kent).
SYLVA STRIKER 1300 full race Crossflow, big valve head, lightened and balanced, twin 40s, Phil Jones RS2000 close ratio 4-speed box, rosejointed front and rear, RS2000 vented discs, 4-pot calipers, £3500. Tel: 01323 840552 (Sussex).
SW DIALS Complete set of five, black surrounds and facings, very good condition. £100, from a Sebring. Tel: 01474 52261 or 07866 506829 (Kent).
MARLIN ROADSTER Triumph based, red, excellent condition, new MoT, tax end of September, good tyres, alloys, split driver/passenger tonneau. Good low cost fun, £1950 ono. Tel: 07801 167587 (Worcestershire).
KIT CAR AUTOJUMBLE PARTS Alfa instruments, stainless steel Locost manifold, lamps, petrol tank, Escort radio. Pre-war road wheels, steering columns. Cash or exchange Escort Mk2 tuning parts or motoring/racing books or historical Lotus brochures. Tel John: 020 8832 3214 (Surrey).
MIDAS GOLD 1.4, Q-reg, 1985, 65K, Recaro seats, sunroof, good runner, recent clutch, been standing two and a half years since last MoT. Can e-mail pics, £1000. Tel: 07740 647782.
FORD PARTS Cologne V6 2.9-litre, offers. MT75 hybrid gearbox, new recon to fit Cologne V6 including extension stick to gearknob. Cost £500, open to offers. Pair Sierra front hubs, offers. LSD, 4x4 rear hubs etc, offers. Tel: 01473 611055 (Suffolk).
CATERHAM SEVEN 1992, 15,000 miles, 4-speed gearbox, live axle, 1700cc unleaded Crossflow, twin 40 Webers, AP front brakes, 4-point Luke harnesses, FIA rollover hoop. Superlights with A510 tyres, £7250. Tel: 07966 574756 (Essex).
Tel: 0845 20 20 230 PILGRIM SUMO Rolling chassis with Rover V8 and box. Brake and fuel systems fitted. Lots of new bits and bobs. New family member and extension forcing sale, £3000 (reasonable offers considered). Tel: 01536 518014 (Northamptonshire).
MUSTANG 4.6-LITRE V8 ENGINE Brand new with Tremec 5-speed gearbox. Includes ECU, harness, clutch etc. Complete installation, all new. Ideal Cobra engine, £4995 no offers. Tel: 01684 592720 or 07810 138299 (Worcestershire).
SEBRING TMX Unfinished project. Rolling chassis built to accept Rover V8, 5-speed manual gearbox. Chassis and components all new inclusing Minilite style wheels. Receipts for £12,500. Sell at £9000 ono. Tel: 07855 245541 (Essex).
SUPERLIGHT WHEELS 15in x 8in, 15in x 7in. As new, Ford fitting, with Yokohama A048s, good fronts, worn rears, £650 ono. Caterham Black Pack headlights, £50 pair. Caterham cycle wings £30 pair. Tel John: 07971 830015 (Derbyshire).
NCF DIAMOND MK3 Unstarted project with interior and bare aluminium shell, any offers. Tel: 07985 282810.
PART BUILT MERCEDES SSK REPLICA 90 per cent built, Volkswagen based, wire wheels, whitewall tyres, 1300cc, lots of chrome, genuine reason for sale. Offers. Tel: 01932 344348 (Surrey).
OLDHAM & CROWTHER Rover 3.5 V8 with Holley carb and Offenhauser inlet manifold, 5-speed box. Engine runs but needs tuning. Aluminium and GRP body. Needs interior, seats, dash, wiring and painting. Had success at hillclimbs and is featured in a book, £1000 or swap for trike/classic car resto project. E-mail: davidjones66@blueyonder.co.uk
PILGRIM SUMO 90 per cent finished, Ford 302, Borg and Warner 5-speed, sidepipes etc, £7500. Tel Mark: 01428 684724 after 9pm (Surrey).
ROBIN HOOD EXMO 2 Zintec body, 1600 recon engine fitted. Gearbox, diff, prop, steering fitted. Hood, rollbar, new wiring harness available plus all parts to finish build, £800 ono. Tel: 0116 284 9293 or (mobile) 07710 547584 (Leicester).
TIGER AVON Comprehensive Zetec kit, complete donor kit and Escort 1.8 Zetec car. Too many parts to list, call for details. Spent £5800, accept £4500. Tel: 01480 830055 (day), 01353 650459 (eve) or 07753 636493.
LUEGO VELOCITY 95 per cent finished, Toyota 4AGE engine, carbs, cans, discs all-round, LSD, £6900 ono. Tel: 01353 741058 (Cambridgeshire).
ROBIN HOOD SUB-K Partially complete, ill health forces sale. Many extras, requires engine change. Transmission fitted, rolling chassis, £1200 ono. Tel: 01202 880561 (Wimborne, Doreset).
DONOR CARS
GCS HAWKE ROLLING CHASSIS Based on 1982 low mileage 1600cc Cortina with V5C logbook. Suspension overhauled, brakes overhauled, new fuel tank and lines fitted, ready for body to be fitted, £2000 ono. Tel John: 01424 424506 (h) 01435 812706 (w). E-mail: john@sussexkitcars.co.uk (East Sussex).
TRIUMPH TR7 V8 Fitted with 3.5-litre Rover engine, 5-speed manual, Kent 214FR cam, K&N air filter, large jets, SU carbs, electronic ignition, Kenlowe fan, Facet fuel pump, Alleycat alloys, £995 ono. Tel: 0115 477 1753. FORD GALAXIE CONVERTIBLE Big block engine, Holley carb etc. Tough rear axle, American Racing wheels, useable historic V5C (1970). Ideal for Cobra builder, £995 ono. Tel: 01226 748000 (Yorkshire).
ROBIN HOOD S7 1850cc Dolomite engine, complete. Moved house – no room for car. Best offer will secure sale. Tel: 01691 679170 (Shropshire). BANHAM 130 Welding done, body on. Rebuilt Alfa 1500 engine, pre-1967 Beetle headlights, set of Mangers. Hard-top, windscreen. New brake discs, calipers and radiator. Doors, bonnet, boot, £1000. Tel: 020 8641 1468 (Surrey).
WANTED COBRA 289 With Rover V8 and full weather gear. Hawk preferred but would consider BRA. Must be pre-76 registered/tax exempt. Gregor Günther, Hohe Gasse 1, 37176 Nörten-Hardenberg, Germany.
ROBIN HOOD 2B Plus Kit for sale. Work commitments force sale. Cost £3000 accept £2000 no offers. Tel: 01274 690999 Monday to Friday.
DAVRIAN MK7 Any condition. Tel: 01435 813609 (any time).
WANT TO SEE YOUR CAR IN THE PAGES OF CKC? READER’S CAR Auto Speciali Venom
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VENOM
The AS Venom Dodge Viper replica is big, brash and loud – not perhaps the type of project you’d expect a kit car novice to undertake. Beginner builder, Andy Dyke, likes a challenge. IAN STENT MET HIM
DECEMBER 2007
SIZEMatters Neil Pullen had almost given up trying to find a kit car he could fit into. When he discovered a Luego Viento was the right size, the search was over. Adam Wilkins met him. THE CHANCE PURCHASE of a kit car magazine in an airport in around 1998 sewed the seeds of an idea in Neil Pullen’s mind. With a background in engineering, he decided a kit car project would be just the thing to keep him
This is a particularly tidy example of the oversize Luego Viento.
entertained at the weekends. At first, he liked the idea of a Rover V8 powered Fisher Fury (for the noise as much as anything), but he was too big to get comfortable in the cockpit. Then he pondered an Ultima (still keen on having
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READER’S CAR Luego Viento V6
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a V8), but decided it was too expensive for a toy. When he looked at the wide bodied Caterham SV at the NEC Motor Show in 2002, and discovered he couldn’t even get comfy in that, he almost gave up on the whole kit car idea altogether. That was until Luego launched the supersize Viento. Here was a car that could not only accommodate him easily, but also that Rover V8 he craved. When he saw the demo at Stoneleigh 2004, he was going to sleep on the idea of building one, but his wife Becky told him to just
get on and do it, making him place a deposit there and then. Nice to see the domestic hierarchy working well! Original plans to fit the Viento with a luscious sounding V8 were shelved when internet research on various forums suggested finding a healthy SD1 engine would be difficult. “They’re so forgiving,” says Neil, “that I read lots of tales of apparently well running engines being stripped and needing expensive work doing.” The search was on for an alternative and, still keen on something bigger than a four-pot, Neil chose the Ford Cosworth V6. They don’t have the greatest reputation (weight and lack of tuning potential often cited as downsides), but Neil was smitten by their bombproof dependability and the fact they were only fitted to automatic Granada Scorpios, meaning none would have been overworked. Oh, and he also came
across a terrific company in the form of Top Boss Performance in Derby which has plenty of tricks up its sleeve to boost the standard 195bhp output. Who said you can’t tune a Cossie V6? Neil bought a complete Scorpio donor for £500 which had covered 105,000 miles (95,000 of which were with the first owner with full service history). It was stripped within a couple of weeks and the engine sent away to Top Boss Performance for reconditioning. He gave them a brief to strip it to the block and replace anything that was worn. As it turned out, only the cam timing belt tensioner needed renewing (as well as various seals etc). Not everything could be used from the donor. The auto box was substituted for a Type 9 manual, while the front hubs and rear calipers also come from a Sierra. The front calipers are from a scrapped Escort Cosworth (and have proven a little too powerful for the lightweight Luego) and the diff was part-exhanged for an LSD from a later Granada. One major component which could be retained from the Granada was the wiring loom. “I panicked when I took the dash out and saw the wiring,” Neil remembers. “The wiring was a long, difficult job. It wasn’t horrendously complicated, though. You just need to keep going at it and everything becomes clear.” His wiring is actually made of three parts – the engine loom from the donor, the main loom from Luego, and it’s joined by bits salvaged from the donor. It was those donor wires that caused the headaches. Working from a wiring 88 www.completekitcar.co.uk
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Original plan to fit a Rover V8 was shelved in favour of the Ford Cosworth V6.
This is owner Neil Pullen’s first kit car project.
diagram he got from the Scorpio Owners’ Club, each time he cut away a wire (for unnecessary things like the air con or heated seats), he’d have doubts and worry he’d cut something out that he’d later need. Another job he’d rather forget was fitting the differential. Laying under the car, he wrestled for ages and it simply
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