Posts Tagged ‘vauxhall’

Vauxhall-powered, carbon-clad ’72 Mini

Mini

Car magazines have been a long-time love of mine. From a very, very young age I have thoroughly enjoyed flicking the glossy pages and seeing all kinds of custom cars in print, it has a certain feeling that the internet just can’t reproduce. But as good as magazines are, they leave a few voids, and [...]

Red Victor 3 – Vauxhall VX4/90 FD

victor

I haven’t featured many drag cars in comparison to other build styles on this site, but Slinky from Red Victor 1 Racing over in the UK sent me the teams latest build and I knew it deserved a post. This style of drag car is usually the domain of American builders who focus their attention [...]

Vauxhall Cresta XJR

Cresta

Here’s another classic body on top of a modern chassis build. I wonder if this style of building will be the way of the future, keeping classics alive on the surface with modern drive-trains and suspension powering them from underneath. This one combines the shell of a classic Vauxhall Cresta with the guts of a [...]

Racer86, project car extraordinaire

I’ve been following the Racer86 blog for a while now, ever since I first saw pictures of his KP30 Starlet which gave me the inspiration to fit a MK1 Rabbit front lip to my Datsun. Rob is a prominent figure in the retro car scene in the UK due to his multiple project cars and [...]