{"id":16820,"date":"2019-04-11T20:45:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=16820"},"modified":"2019-04-11T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T20:45:29","slug":"kitcars-around-the-world-rhubarb-roadster-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/kitcars-around-the-world-rhubarb-roadster-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"KITCARS AROUND THE WORLD \u2013 RHUBARB ROADSTER (NEW ZEALAND)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16821\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/news_rhubarb_NZ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-16821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/news_rhubarb_NZ-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I LIKE THE LOOK OF THIS ONE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the UK and USA are the real hot-beds of kitcar activity around the world, around thirty other countries have the semblance of a\u00a0self-build car industry, some bigger than others.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil has always been very active, while Australia has a fairly buoyant (albeit smaller than it used to be) industry, although their stringent ADR regulations have made things harder for DIY-ers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, New Zealand, has always been known for classic car restoration and turnkey Jaguar replicas. They\u2019ve also got an active kitcar industry \u2013 a long established one \u2013 with companies like Alternative Cars, Almac, Bolwell and Elfin (bought by the late Tom Walkinshaw\u2019s TWR in 2010).<\/p>\n<p>A very neat fairly new arrival on the New Zealand scene is the wonderfully-named Rhubarb Cars, who make a very cool-looking Mazda MX-5-based kit called the Roadster.<\/p>\n<p>The men behind the project \u2013 Colin Smith, Roger Rimmer, Adrian Rimmer and Bruce Hancett \u2013 have all spent a lot of time in the UK working within motorsport, particularly Formula Ford FF1600.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Roger Rimmer, was also involved with the Racecorps LAi Lotus Seven-inspired sportscar during his time in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Roadster via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rhubarbcarsnz.com\/\">www.rhubarbcarsnz.com<\/a>\u00a0<strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Although the UK and USA are the real hot-beds of kitcar activity around the world, around thirty other countries have the semblance of a\u00a0self-build car <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/11\/kitcars-around-the-world-rhubarb-roadster-new-zealand\/\" title=\"KITCARS AROUND THE WORLD \u2013 RHUBARB ROADSTER (NEW ZEALAND)\">[&#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-16820","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\/16820","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=16820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}