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Haynes Roadster is a replica of a Lotus Seven home-built car, according to the book Build Your Own Sports Car: On a Budget by Chris Gibbs (ISBN 1-84425-391-0). A Ford Sierra is used in the car as a donor for drivetrain and suspension components. The Haynes Roadster is a follow-up to the Locost design described in a book by Ron Champion.
The Robin Hood badge Robin Hood with 1993 cc engine Robin Hood S3 Robin Hood Engineering Ltd was a British kit car manufacturer based in Mansfield Woodhouse , Nottinghamshire. The factory covered 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2 ) and was on a one and a half acre site.
The original Locust kit was based on the Triumph Spitfire or Herald chassis to give the finished vehicle the look of a Lotus 7, this was quickly superseded by a all new Locust using its own developed chassis with the choice of using a Triumph Spitfire or Mk1/Mk2 Ford Escort for the donor vehicle parts to complete the car.
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Over half of the Factory Five customers today build their kit using engine/drivetrain parts from a donor Mustang, whereas the remainder elect to buy all new parts or a combination thereof. [2] Jim Youngs, the founder and editor of Kit Car Builder, says the Factory Five Cobra is the country's bestselling kit car.
While Custom Crafted cars continues to manufacture complete high-performance Vaydor Supercars, Carolina Vaydor is the exclusive world-wide dealer for Vaydor Body Kits that do-it-yourselfers can build themselves. The Vaydor was featured as the Joker's car in the 2016 film Suicide Squad, [3] and featured on Fox News. [4]
RPB was a company that had started out building Formula Vee cars under license and then developed their own designs. At one point they considered building a road car based on BMC Mini components, but abandoned that project in favor of Andrén's proposal. [70] Key people at RPB included Rune Levander, Kjell Lindskog, and, later, Bror Jaktlund. [71]
The Locost pattern originated in the mid 90s, and then with the publishing by Haynes Manuals of the book Build your own sports car for as little as £250 by Ron Champion (ISBN 1-85960-636-9). This design was based heavily on the original Lotus Seven. It also used a live axle rear suspension.