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Welcome to The UK Kit Car Club
Don't be shy! Join in the fun by registering to post on the forum, and to get full benefits you can buy 12 months club membership for just £20! Membership includes a quarterly club magazine, discounts with insurance companies and specialist suppliers, exclusive, early or discounted access to a number of events each year and much more!
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Welcome to The UK Kit Car Club
The aim of the club is to help and support members during the build (and inevitable ongoing maintenance and modification) as well as to plan and organise events throughout the year. The Club attends the major kit car shows throughout the year providing a stand with tea and coffee, plus a BBQ with food for members. You'll be warmly received, especially if you bring more food and drink !! We also have stands at many other shows all around the country.
It's not just shows though, our active area secretaries and members regularly arrange run outs and longer trips to such places as Le Mans, Wales and Scotland, plus the annual club camping weekend and the traditional “end of season” get together. Keep an eye on the events section of the forum for news and details of upcoming events.
The Club also produces four magazines a year, exclusively for club members, filled with all manner of things club or motoring related, and members can get their own articles published in it as well if they wish.
The Club is an independent organisation, and although we have our roots as the Robin Hood Owners Club and Register (RHOCaR), we are very much a club for all makes and model of kit car, so anyone can be a "Hoody", as it's all about the state of mind, not the car you drive! Being a member of The UK Kit Car Club has many benefits above those already mentioned. Members benefit from discounted insurance with nearly all of the specialist kit car insurers, and often find that the discount is more than the club membership fee. Membership also gets you full access to the forum, and a variety of other discounts such as with Euro Car Parts. You'll also find other members are willing to go well above and beyond for any other member they see is in need of help !
So whether you own a Robin Hood, a GBS Zero, a Locost, an MK, a Westfield, a Caterham, (or any of the many other types of kit car), everyone can benefit from joining, so what are you waiting for ?
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Essex Area Meeting
Just a reminder about this months meeting at the Tulip 12.0 - 2.0.
if its fine and theres enough of us we may go over to meet the Westfield lot at Wicford, as suggested by Paul Jones,as they have thier meeting the same day as us, hopefully see some of you there
cheers
Rusty
Rover Starter Motors
During a good clear out of some of the rooms within the factory we have come accross a small number of brand new starter motors for Rover powered superspecs.
M79 and M78R
if you are interested please call 01623 422286
Leicestershire Area Meeting
Hi All
The usual Leicestershire meet this Wednesday will NOT be taking place at the Waterside in Mountsorrel. The 'usual' crowd is going to a bit of a 'last minute' organised Karting session. I'll do a round email to other Leics members but if you were thinking of coming as a non member or for the first time, our next meet there will be the last Wednesday of November.
Thanks
Andy
Pedal Box
This is the first of hopefully many new products manufactured by GBS
GBS pedal boxes £55
Floor mounted pedal set ideal for any kit car, ideally used with top mounted accelerator pedal to ease the use of heel-toe braking and accelerating. Brake pedal allows use of twin brake cylinders for brake balance allowing fine adjustment of front and rear braking power. Kit includes: -
1x floor mount bracket, 1x clutch pedal, 1x brake pedal, 2x bolts and nuts, 4x nylaspa bushes and eye tubes.
later in the year we will be offering a kit with all the cylinders and brake balance bars.
Pedal box comes as standard in the Hood
Website
Robin Hoods website will be up and running by the end of today.
The new website domain will be www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk and www.greatbritishsportscars.com
www.robinhoodsportscars.co.uk will be back up and running in a week we hope.
we will try and keep the news pages as up to date as we can keeping you informed
Regards
GBS
Registering A New Account
I've made some minor changes to the CAPTCH image used when you try to sign up an account (This should stop bot registrations). If you have a problem registering an account please let me know.
Website Downtime
Sorry about some of the downtime, I've been installing new version of software and core APACHE, and some took longer than I thoguht Should be ok again now
North Mids, Staffs, South Ches Area Meeting
Area meeting Tuesday 2nd of January
Darlaston Inn
Stone
Staffs
1 mile north of Stone
slap bang on the A34/A51 junction
7.30 onwards all are welcome to join us
Good turnout last time, thanks to all that came!!
Stu
07969 724989
The Great British Auto Jumble
Thanks to all members for the support shown!
we would like to invite all Robin Hood owners and fellow kit car enthusiasts to our showroom jumble
On friday the 6th and sat the 7th october (possibly sunday depending on intrest) to be held at
7 oxclose lone mansfield woodhouse
mansfield
nottingham
ng198df
GBS will be having a clear out.
available will be: -
engines
gearboxes
axles
a wide selection of grp for cars including clam wings
nuts, bolts
dials
seats
radiators
exhaust manifolds and silencers
fans
donor cars and kit cars
all current parts manufactured here at GBS including chassis
One locost chassis
and much more
please feel free to pass on the information to friends as all are welcome.
no reasonable offer will be declined
Regards all the team at GBS
Great British Sports Cars Ltd
Great British Sports Cars Ltd
7 Oxclose Lane
Mansfield Woodhouse
Nott’s NG19 8DF
September 25, 2006
Announcement:
Great British Sports Ltd. is pleased to announce its recent acquisition of all the assets of Robin Hood Sports Cars Ltd, a leading manufacturer of Kit Cars and their components including, chassis, manifolds, suspension, fuel tanks and a wide range of in-house manufactured items.
Included in the purchase is the Lolocost business-a leading supplier of parts to the kit car market.
The team at GBS consists of real kit car enthusiasts (both builders and owners) and has a genuine ambition to re-establish Robin Hood as the number one manufacturer of “affordable” British sports cars.
The business was acquired by Ian Rowley and Richard Hall and all of the Robin Hood employees have been retained.
The former owners of Robin Hood and its parent companies are not involved in GBS Ltd and have played no part in its formation or in its funding.
The priority for the GBS team will be the launch of the new Hood chassis later this year and the servicing of both existing and new customer requirements.
Robin Hood cars will continue to be sold under their current model names and the full range of historical and current model parts are available.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact us using the original Robin Hood numbers and e-mail addresses.
Tel 01623 422286 (general enquiries) 01623 420734 (Lolocost parts)
E-Mail info@robinhoodsportscars.co.uk
Sincerely,
Ian K Rowley
Managing Director
Richard Hall
Technical Director