Complete Kit Car – September 2019

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Why should I be there? Sod’s Law was in full effect

for our annual Cars and Coffee meeting here at the

Complete Kit Car office. For the last couple of years,

we’ve held it on the Easter weekend and been hit

by either cold or wet weather. For 2019, we moved

to July for some sunshine... and we got wall to

wall rain. More galling was the fact that Easter

was sunny and the week leading up to the meeting

witnessed a 36deg heatwave.

The promise of cake was enough to bring out

reasonable numbers of hardy kit car owners despite

the weather, with notable support from both the

East Anglian Tiger Owners’ Club and East Anglian

Kit Car Club. We also saw some familiar cars in the

form of Simon Skelding’s GP Madison (featured

in our July 2015 issue) and Malcolm Horn’s Burton

2CV pick-up (featured in our September 2018 issue),

and Gardner Douglas’s Andy Burrows brought his

427 demonstrator.

While hoods stayed up (for those lucky enough

to have them) and most visitors spent the day

sheltering from the rain in the small corner of our

warehouse that was opened up for the event, there

was enough kit car chat and general laughs to keep

everyone entertained.

Once again, we must thank Sue Howes for her

sterling work in baking cakes for the event... they

were once again the main attraction and a terrific

compensation for venturing out in the worst of the

British summer weather.

We’re likely to move the date of Cars and Coffee

again next year, so place your bets on the weather

now. You’ll probably be on to a winner...

CARS AND COFFEE AT CKC

East Anglian Tiger Owners’ Club and East Anglian Kit Car Club are not put off by a bit of rain.

You might recognise Neil Whitehead’s rare Tiger

Cub from the big Tiger anniversary feature

elsewhere in this issue.

One surefire way to draw people outside into the

rain is to remove a car bonnet... there’s nothing like

it for drawing a crowd at a car meeting.

Andy Burrows from Gardner Douglas made the

trip across Grantham from his factory in the 427

demonstrator to the Cars and Coffee meeting.

Angus Grooby’s Marlin Berlinetta looked pretty

welcoming with its wet weather gear. It’s a

particularly tidy example, too.

A line-up of M-cars... assistant editor Jack’s Midas

sits between a Merlin and Madison. Note the varying

weather gear – soft-top, hardtop and an umbrella!

Malcolm Horn’s Burton Citroën 2CV conversion

always gets admiring glances. It’s powered by a

BMW motorcycle engine.

If there’s any kit car that can cope with the weather,

it’s the Healy Enigma. One of the rare kit cars on

today’s market that’s practical enough for daily use.

Rain may have kept the big numbers away from our Cars and Coffee meeting

this year, but that just meant there was more cake for those who did venture out...

Words and pictures: Adam Wilkins

What: Cars and Coffee at Complete Kit Car

Where: Grantham, Lincolnshire

When: July

W: http://www.completekitcar.co.uk

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