{"id":17537,"date":"2019-08-15T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=17537"},"modified":"2019-08-15T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:52:57","slug":"spire-at-the-pointy-end-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/08\/15\/spire-at-the-pointy-end-again\/","title":{"rendered":"SPIRE AT THE POINTY END AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17538\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/news_spire_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/news_spire_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spire&#8217;s RB7 drivers, John Cutmore (left) and Dave Watson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brand new from Spire Sports Cars is the new RB7, built to compete in the CSSC \u2018Mag 7\u2019 Series, driven by Dave Watson and John Cutmore.<\/p>\n<p>The chassis is based on Spire\u2019s front-engined RGB car and both are fitted with RLM-prepared 1440cc Suzuki Hayabusa engines, Elite MX200 diffs, Tim Gray Motorsport air paddle-shift systems, new billet front uprights with vented discs all round and Image rims with Avon tyres.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17539\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/news_spire_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-17539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/news_spire_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A delighted Dave Watson after his race win in the CSSC&#8217;s Mag7 Series at Anglesey recently.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spire boss, Paul Nightingale told me: \u201cWe ran the first finished car for Dave Watson at Anglesey a couple of weeks ago. He qualified 5th from 38 entries, finished 4th in the Saturday race and won the Sunday race.<\/p>\n<p>We have subsequently been told the car will not be eligible for Mag7&#8217;s again unless we make the bodywork more Lotus Seven-looking in silhouette, so that will be the first job to tackle when I get back off holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/news_spire_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/news_spire_3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prices for race-spec kits have not been set yet but fully built examples like those pictured here are around the \u00a360,000 mark.<\/p>\n<p>More information from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiresportscars.co.uk\/\">www.spiresportscars.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or 01773 874 694 <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Brand new from Spire Sports Cars is the new RB7, built to compete in the CSSC \u2018Mag 7\u2019 Series, driven by Dave Watson and John <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/08\/15\/spire-at-the-pointy-end-again\/\" title=\"SPIRE AT THE POINTY END AGAIN\">[&#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-17537","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\/17537","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=17537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}