{"id":8224,"date":"2015-06-11T19:50:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2015-06-11T19:50:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T19:50:10","slug":"bloody-hell-thats-the-third-ive-gone-to-california-in-18-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/bloody-hell-thats-the-third-ive-gone-to-california-in-18-months\/","title":{"rendered":"BLOODY HELL, THAT&#039;S THE THIRD TIME I&#039;VE &#039;GONE TO CALIFORNIA&#039; IN 18 MONTHS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, Terry Groves, acquired the MR2 Kits operation from founder, Dave Jones and although he keeps the operation fairly low-key his GTF kit package, inspired by the F430, has sold in steady numbers.<\/p>\n<p>News comes though of a new product, in the form of the 350 Cali, a take on the California, based rather imaginatively on Nissan 350Z Coupe, which comes free with a 3.5-litre V6 and acres of tuning potential. It\u2019s a Japanese rice rocket, for gawdsake!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it\u2019s good to see new donors being pressed into service. We\u2019ve seen Lexus SC430 and just lately the first use of the Jaguar S-type (Creative Sports Cars) and the Nissan is now very affordable and the MR2 Kits package is designed as an easy build, picking up on the original bolting points.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8225\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8225\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/news_mr2kits_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-8225\" title=\"news_mr2kits_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.totalkitcar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/news_mr2kits_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MR2Kits&#39; Cali uses Nissan 350Z donor...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>350 Cali kit packages cost \u00a36500 with factory built examples from \u00a323,000 depending on specification. What you get for your money is Front wings and bumper (one-piece), double-skinned bonnet, front grille, door skins, side sills, roof skin, double-skinned rear boot, rear bumper and rear wings (one-piece), door mirror shells, door mirror glass and all metalwork and fixings. In additional you\u2019ll also need to source lighting for front and rear and exhaust tips.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the GTF kits cost \u00a33995 or \u00a34449 with a coil over damper conversion.<\/p>\n<p>More on both models from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mr2kits.co.uk\">www.mr2kits.co.uk<\/a> or 07533 307 131 <strong>ENDS.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Several years ago, Terry Groves, acquired the MR2 Kits operation from founder, Dave Jones and although he keeps the operation fairly low-key his GTF kit <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/11\/bloody-hell-thats-the-third-ive-gone-to-california-in-18-months\/\" title=\"BLOODY HELL, THAT&#039;S THE THIRD TIME I&#039;VE &#039;GONE TO CALIFORNIA&#039; IN 18 MONTHS!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","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\/8224","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=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkc.grainwork.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}