Build one from kit form and the car you see here, Dowsetts Classics’ Tipo 184, could be on a track for less than $25,000 at today’s exchange rates, plus the cost of the second-generation Miata ...

Author: Richard Heseltine Photography: Manufacturers The British kit car industry thrived in the 80s – here are some of our favourites. Marcos Mantula Marque co-founder Jem Marsh revived Marcos ...

But, these 10 kit cars are ones you should absolutely stay away from. Since the dawn of automobiles, ... British automaker Austin created a sensation with its new pint-sized automobile called Mini.

This Strange Tiny British Kit Car Has Some Wild Brochure Art. It's a tiny, plastic little cheese wedge with a Mini engine shoved in the rear, but it sure looks like a blast.

Some manufacturers produce well-known and beloved kit cars, such as Caterham, a British superlight specialist that produces and services kit cars in-house.

Kit cars are highly-customized, homemade, ... a British kit car that can go from 0 to 100 mph in 11.95 seconds) or as ways to transform the chassis and engine of a mundane car ...

Jim Law has always had an interest in British sports cars. “I don't know what was wrong with me,” said Law, polishing the Lola T70 MkIII B of his friend Jim Coombs. From 1964 to 1966, Law ran ...

If you’re new around here, R&T is building its latest long-term test car from a kit. That car is British, which means the experience has been half head scratching, half simple assembly, and half ...

As for Caterham cars in the U.S., there are ways to drive these British icons Stateside. Although ready-built Caterhams are not sold in the U.S., enthusiasts can still buy kit cars, supplied ...

Lee Noble, a freelance car designer, designed and built the first Ultima in 1983 for a British kit­-car racing series. It used many Renault parts, including a 270-horsepower V-6 engine mounted ...

From the April 1998 issue of Car and Driver. The last time we built a kit car was one summer weekend in 1979. Okay, the pronoun should be they, since none of us was on the masthead back then ...