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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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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
Midlands Area Meeting
Ok guys here is the situation, I'm stuck down in london all week playing with the motorway traffic. so i cant make the meeting, this time.
However next time is our October meeting on the 25th !!! why should this be significant !!!
well its our christmas meal practice, the toby does a good carvery for not a lot of money.
so if you and/or your wife/partner/girl friend/boy friend etc want to eat as well they can.
let me know by 6/10/06 so i can book a table for us, around 8:30pm.
PM me via the board and let me know some numbers and include any from those who dont have web access.
Those who dont want a space at the trough meeting as normal.
See you there, bring your appetite.
cheers Andy R
Calender Pic Please
Hi Can you please send in your Car pics for The 2007 Calender ASAP
To robinhood.calender@ntlworld.com
A Light weight would be nice Simon And Trevor?
[i can do a nice picture of my SVA'd taxed and registered RH Lightweight - Bit of a rarerity!!!!!!!!
Simon]
Thanks
Stephen
Early Morning Phone Call Harassment
A few facts :
1) This board is run on behalf of RHOCaR, I am not not RHOCaR, in fact I'm not even an official in the club
2) RHOCaR has no financial involvement with RHSC, RHOCaR is purely a non-profit owners Kit car club.
3) This board is moderated by all the local area secretaries, myself and the board of management at RHOCaR.
4) Almost all recent decisions on this board regarding the posting/removal of information has been made via approved moderation (Not a single person doing it on there own). And secondly all deleted posts are kept and can be reviewed by all moderators.
5) I pay for and run this server and webspace free of charge, the only money I have every asked for from RHOCaR was the cash to pay for the new board software.
With this is mind, I received two phone calls yesterday morning (Friday). Both at 06:45, where my wife answered it at first and the guy was asking for rh-o-car, she thought he had the wrong number (Well she had just been woken up), but he called straight back. I had recognised the RHOCaR bit so answered the phone the second time, mentioned the fact it was 06:45 and he said sorry and hung up on me. Today we received another phone call at 06:23 waking us both up (and my son 5) but this time they hung up on her as soon as she answered.
I hope you are enjoying waking up my family (Myself, wife and son, luckily my daughters are at the other end of the house) for whatever reason, but please stop it. When you have young children and are up in the night (Bed wetting replacement duty) then get woken up early, it really isn't nice. And I can honestly not think of one thing that I could of done online (on this board) to deserve this, yet alone punish my whole family.
Quite simply if it happens again, I will suspend the whole board, then on top of annoying me, you can annoy the whole community. Please feel free to post in chit chat about this....
Offers Of Help
We have had a couple of people join the board to sell, while I'm not against this, I do think it would of been nice if the various members had contacted a moderator first, to find out if this is ok.
This is a posting from Westfield Sportscars.
Anyone who has lost their deposits for their Robin Hood need not despair
Westfield Sportscars will offer a £250 voucher to spend when ordering a Westfield Single Donor Vehicle either Sierra Powered or MX5 powered.
Did you know you can build a Westfield less than you think? In some cases even less than building “SOME” Robin Hood
Sometimes the perception is that building a Westfield is expensive. We are almost unique in this kit car industry because we give you the honest up front cost of your kit including VAT before you start the build – not during you build like a lot of manufactures.
Call 01384 400077 or email info@westfield-sportscar.co.uk to find out more.
Did you know Westfield hold the following European Safety certificates? (INCLUDING Crash test)c
Test and Certificate number for ref
Crash test and Protective steering e4-74/297-89002
Headlamps E11 20R 56
E11 20R 57
E4 R20 02 53
E4 R20 02 1
E1 17031 R20
E1 14578 R20
E1 24542 R20
E1 24526 R20
Side/rear/stop lamps e11 7669/7670
E11 166
E4R7 01 53
E4 R7 01 1
E1 14578 R7
E1 17031 R7
Rear reflector e11 3293
Direction indicator e11 6267 Fr
E11 162 Rr
e11 6267 side or e11 016703/e11 01959
Rear view mirrors e11*71/127*88/321*0307*00
Anti theft devices/steering lock e11 74/61 203 ext1
Seat belt anchorages e11*76/115*90/629*0150*00
Seat belt installation **….90/628
Glass E2 43R001252
Seats and anchorages **….90/628
Rear fog lamps e11 0030
Wash wipe **….78/318
Lighting installation e11*76/756*91/663*0131*01
Passing SVA isn’t a problem with our technical help line
I'm prepared to make an offer to help those effected by the Lightweight saga.
I run GTS Tuning, and Kit Car Builds, as part of Kit Car Builds we offer a SVA test package. In this package we do a pre-SVA test check, including a pre-MOT to check brakes and immisions etc, we also take the car to the test centre and do any obvious small failure points, and then we do all the paper work for the registration. For this we normally charge £655.
In a former life i was a senior design engineer in F1, and have CAD and other advanced engineering systems in house.
What i'm prepared to do is to take one of your completed Lightweights to our local SVA station (with whom we have a good relationship) and see what the exact issues are, and attempt to develop a retro fit kit to solve the problems. All i want is a completed car and for the owner to pay for the SVA test itself.
Any one losing out on a RH order can have a £250 discount from our Deluxe Starter kit, of our Panther or W7DE models, see www.gtstuning.co.uk for details of the kit and its contents. You will also be included in our new build mentor service that aims to gaurantee an easy build and all the support you need to complete your car to a high standard.
Hopefull these offers will help support you owners that feel you have lost out.
Please PM DozRacing
Rhsc News
An official post about RHSC will be coming very soon, please watch this space.
EDIT : Please do NOT PM me, becasue I know as much as you.