First ever kit car?

[andy665]

Ah, happy memories. My first kit car and indeed first car was a Dutton Phaeton Series 3, built with my dad at the age of 17 (so 1984). I funded it totally myself, remember travelling down to Worthing to collect it, kit price including a few extras was about £650, donor MK 1 Escort 1300 was £20. Travelling back through Central London was an experience, long before the days of the M25.

Initially it ran just the standard engine until that blew up when entering the Stoneleigh Kitcar show, this years return visit after 32 years was therefore a little unnerving. Engine was replaced with a Howley Race Engines 711M blocked 1300  X Flow that was a great little engine. Apologies for the blurred photo but they were the days before autofocus

Subsequently followed up in the late 1990's by a Grinnall Scorpion that had to be sold due to divorce and then in the early 2000's by a Westfield with a Lotus Twin Cam - photos are of the car as it is today, for sale without engine and box literally 15 miles away from me in Whitchurch. Was a lovely car and came with a spare Twin Cam engine that stupidly I never got round to collecting (would be worth a fortune today)

 

 

[Wobblyprop]

Here's mine in 1997 after being started for the very first time and driven out of garage, hence silly grin.  And I'm still too tall for that roll bar !

 

[Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO]

7 hours ago, andy665 said:

Ah, happy memories. My first kit car and indeed first car was a Dutton Phaeton Series 3, built with my dad at the age of 17 (so 1984). 

 

 

 

I picked my Sierra up in May 1984 when I was 21, they were probably built around the same time.