{"id":13083,"date":"2017-09-07T18:42:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=13083"},"modified":"2017-09-07T18:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T18:42:49","slug":"kitcar-coupe-wins-against-stiff-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/kitcar-coupe-wins-against-stiff-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"KITCAR COUPE WINS AGAINST STIFF COMPETITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13084\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/news_rich_howlett_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-13084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/news_rich_howlett_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well done to Rich Howlett for taking the triple prize<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hot on the heels of back-to-back concours wins at the 2017 Nostalgia Show, Leicestershire and The 2017 Car &amp; Bike Roadshow, Cambridgeshire. Ex-Lola-man, Rich Howlett\u2019s Lotus Seven-inspired Hardtop Coup\u00e9 design made it a triple, beating off all the elite classic and sportscar competition at this year\u2019s annual Masterclass awards held at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire over the August Bank Holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/news_rich_howlett_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13085\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/news_rich_howlett_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Competing against elite show cars the event annually attracts in excess of 2000 exhibitors with some of the best cars on the show scene on display. Visitors to the event see Supercars, Classics, Sports, American, Kits, Custom, Hotrods, Movie Cars and more. This year\u2019s glorious weather brought cars from far and wide with the organisers keen to see the final numbers, while speculating this to be the biggest turnout to date.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible for the Masterclass competition all vehicles must have won concours events at class level within the last three years to enable progression into the Masterclass competition. This then sees all vehicle category winners compete against each other for the coveted Masterclass trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Rich takes up the story: \u201cAs the third, second and then first place results were announced, it was an absolute honour and privilege amongst such stunning concours vehicles for my Lotus Seven-inspired Hardtop Coup\u00e9 design and development to be announced in first place for the 2017 Masterclass winner followed by a presentation of the winner\u2019s trophy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith continuous worldwide interest in the design and development, I will now seek to bring this award-winning design to market with a single Lotus Seven-inspired manufacturer and an opportunity now exists to get on-board with an exclusive fitment of the Patent Office Registered Design exclusively for their range of cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To make an enquiry or for further info, check out the Coup\u00e9 website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.richhowlett.co.uk\/\">www.richhowlett.co.uk<\/a> <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Hot on the heels of back-to-back concours wins at the 2017 Nostalgia Show, Leicestershire and The 2017 Car &amp; Bike Roadshow, Cambridgeshire. Ex-Lola-man, Rich Howlett\u2019s <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/07\/kitcar-coupe-wins-against-stiff-competition\/\" title=\"KITCAR COUPE WINS AGAINST STIFF COMPETITION\">[&#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-13083","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\/13083","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=13083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}