{"id":7568,"date":"2015-03-12T20:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=7568"},"modified":"2015-03-12T20:39:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:39:07","slug":"you-need-one-of-these-the-ultimate-dadlad-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/you-need-one-of-these-the-ultimate-dadlad-build\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU NEED ONE OF THESE &#8211; THE ULTIMATE DAD\/LAD BUILD"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7569\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7569\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/news_cyclekart.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7569\" title=\"news_cyclekart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/news_cyclekart-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">READ ABOUT MY CYCLE KART  DRIVE IN THE NEXT ISSUE OF TKC MAG<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Starting my motoring\u00a0 journalist career on a great magazine called \u2018Kitcars &amp; SPECIALS\u2019 had a major influence on me and a big respect, admiration and fascination for the homebrew\u00a0 that is a\u00a0 \u2018special\u2019. It has to be said that you sometimes wonder why some people have ventured outside the fixed kit and build manual norm by tackling a scratch build.<\/p>\n<p>It has to be said that some specials look like they\u2019ve been inadvertently created by an explosion at a baked bean factory.\u00a0 However, there have been some cracking cars built over the years. Of course, the \u2018special\u2019 goes back a lot longer than what we refer to as a kitcar (born in 1949) with home-built devices appearing soon after the birth of the motor vehicle, and the evolution into the Cycle Car, but really finding their feet in the twenties alongside the growth in popularity of motorsport at venues such as Brooklands.<\/p>\n<p>Famous \u2013 or infamous \u2013 cars like Becke, Dorcas, Wasp, Gnat and Jappic, to name but a few blazed a trail, often literally, but I guess JAP-powered Bloody Mary, aka \u2018BM\u2019, built by motoring journalist, John Bolster and his brother, Richard, in 1924 has to be one of the most revered.<\/p>\n<p>An intriguing and innovative newcomer, inspired by the Specials-era, comes from MAC#1 Motorsport under the Cycle Kart UK banner. A diminutive little vehicle that needs to be seen to be believed and fully appreciated, supplied in kit form with a set 66in wheelbase, 38in track and maximum weight of 113.3kg. Auxiliary power comes from a 6\u00bdbhp single-cylinder engine.<\/p>\n<p>Two bodystyles are available \u2013 Brooklands kits at \u00a3580 and Goodwood kits at \u00a3420, with fully built Cycle Karts from \u00a33200.<\/p>\n<p>More information from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclekart.co.uk\">www.cyclekart.co.uk<\/a> or 01142 511 016 <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Starting my motoring\u00a0 journalist career on a great magazine called \u2018Kitcars &amp; SPECIALS\u2019 had a major influence on me and a big respect, admiration and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/you-need-one-of-these-the-ultimate-dadlad-build\/\" title=\"YOU NEED ONE OF THESE &#8211; THE ULTIMATE DAD\/LAD BUILD\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568","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=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}