{"id":12012,"date":"2017-03-31T00:11:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=12012"},"modified":"2017-03-31T00:11:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T00:11:40","slug":"metal-bashing-par-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/31\/metal-bashing-par-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"METAL BASHING PAR EXCELLENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/news_NDM_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12013\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/news_NDM_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who doesn\u2019t love a glorious aluminium body? Williams &amp; Pritchard were the meisters of such things for many years, followed closely by the likes of Robert Peel Ltd, Maurice Gomm Engineering and Shapecraft.<\/p>\n<p>The latter, run by Clive Smart, is still around and still producing stunning work, while Gerry Hawkridge has some glorious bodies made in his Polish factory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/news_NDM_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/news_NDM_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another company, Barnstaple-based, North Devon Metalcraft, is another who for years have been making all sorts of automotive-related components, and a range of car bodies including Jaguar C-type. They\u2019ve also been making Cobra bodies too, and still do, but have extended that range slightly by making the latter available in kit form with an as-original chassis and suspension.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be bringing you more on this in the near future but estimated prices for the package are around \u00a350,000, with the company reckoning that to complete a car would cost about 90K.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndmetal.co.uk\">www.ndmetal.co.uk<\/a> or call 01271 322 526 <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Who doesn\u2019t love a glorious aluminium body? Williams &amp; Pritchard were the meisters of such things for many years, followed closely by the likes of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/03\/31\/metal-bashing-par-excellence\/\" title=\"METAL BASHING PAR EXCELLENCE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}