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We are one of the leading names in the British kit car industry, with a long 25 year history of success the company is pleased with continuing its success and development of its latest car the zero range.
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Friday 27 May 2011

GBS & KIT SPARES SUMMER OPEN DAY....................


The GBS team are pleased to invite you all to our Summer Open Day on Saturday 23rd July.
On the day the workshop, showroom and Kit Spares shop will all be open and test drives in the Zero demonstrator will be available.
We are also running a Car Treasure Hunt on the day, which will be starting around 1pm and finish at GBS for a BBQ tea. This is a bit of fun with the cars, this can be in any car but we would love to see as many Sevens as possible. After some fun behind the wheel we hope you will stay and enjoy a BBQ and all the family are welcome.

The first round of the GBS Sprint series will also be taking place at Barkston Heath on the Sunday (24th July) and would like you all to join us, more information on this will be announced nearer the time. Competition and track day dates will be posted on our blog shortly.
For more information and for directions please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860990, we look forward to seeing you all there.

The next show we will be attending will be Newark Kit Car Show 18th & 19th June, we will be taking a wide range of parts from Kit Spares and will have many Zero cars on displays.
For all parts and spares please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and or more information about the Zero range please visit www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.

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Tuesday 24 May 2011

GBS & KIT SPARES HAD A GREAT WEEKEND AT DETLING KIT CAR SHOW..........






We are all still very busy unpacking from an extremely busy and successful weekend at the Detling Kit Car Show. We had two Zero cars on display on the GBS stand as well as a full range of parts from Kit Spares. It was a great to see all the Zero customers over the weekend and was good to hear that there are many Zeros that are soon going to be finished, we look forward to seeing them at the next GBS open day. (date soon to be announced)

The black powder coated single Throttle Body Plenum for the Ford Zetec Black Top Engine is now available from www.kitspares.co.uk New parts are being added everyday to the website. Please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and for more information about the Zero range please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.

The next show we will be attending will be Newark Kit Car Show 18th & 19th June, we will be taking a wide range of parts from Kit Spares and will have many Zero cars on displays.

Please become a fan of GBS on facebook.

Thursday 19 May 2011

THE NEW SINGLE THROTTLE BODY PLENUM IS NOW AVAILABLE.......




This black powder coated single Throttle Body Plenum for the Ford Zetec Black Top Engine is now available from www.kitspares.co.uk. Also coming soon......Duratec, and Zetec SE Single Throttle Body plenums.
This weekend we will be attending Detling Kit Car Show 21st & 22nd May, we will be taking a wide range of parts from Kit Spares and will have many Zero cars on displays.

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For more details please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and for more information about the Zero range please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990

Monday 16 May 2011

GBS ZERO BUILD IN AUSTRALIA..........





We shipped a complete Zero kit out to Australia earlier this year to customer Terry Dale. Terry and his team are doing a great job with their Zero build and it is coming along nicely, they are also taking some video footage of the build and will be sending it over to us when it is complete, which we will share with you on the blog.

Kit Spares recently added some Zero Interior floor mats....... please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and for more information about the Zero range please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.

The next show we will be attending will be Detling Kit Car Show 21st & 22nd May, we will be taking a wide range of parts from Kit Spares and will have many Zero cars on displays.

Please become a fan of GBS on facebook.

Thursday 12 May 2011

ANOTHER ZERO KIT IS EXPORTED........



This week another Zero kit was exported to Indonesia, and yesterday Ivan Rodriguez and his father both from Chilli came over to GBS for the day had a test drive in our Zero demonstrator and ordered a Zero kit. For more information about the Zero please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.

Kit Spares is always adding new products they recently added Zero Interior floor mats....... please visit www.kitspares.co.uk to see our full range of parts.

The next show we will be attending will be Detling Kit Car Show 21st & 22nd May, we will be taking a wide range of parts from Kit Spares and will have many Zero cars on displays.

Please become a fan of GBS on facebook.

Wednesday 11 May 2011

GBS TAKES DELIVERY OF NEW MACHINERY.........





GBS recently took delivery of some brand new machinery, a Hardinge CNC lathe machine, it is now installed and is up and running and training for the new machine is now in progress, it is a very impressive piece of machinery.

Kit Spares has recently added some Zero Interior floor mats for the standard and Wide body Zero....... please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and for more information about the Zero range please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.

The next show we will be attending will be Detling Kit Car Show 21st & 22nd May, we will be taking a wide range of parts from Kit Spares and will have many Zero cars on displays.

Please become a fan of GBS on facebook.

Thursday 5 May 2011

ANOTHER ZERO KIT IS COLLECTED FROM GBS..........






Today we had Matthew Woofenden come and collect his Zero Starter Kit from us, also
Zero customers Chris Edwards and Dave Dodd who collected their Zero kit from us in August last year have sent us some photographs of their build, which is now ready and waiting for its IVA test later this month.

We had a great weekend at Stoneleigh Kit Car Show, and look forward to seeing you all at Detling Kit Car Show later this month.
Kit Spares is adding new products everyday to the website, we are pleased to now be stocking a full range of Smith Gauges, Gaz Shock Absorbers and Gulf Oil as well as AT Power products. Also at long last we now have the MT75 Quickshift in stock please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and for more information about the Zero range please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.

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Tuesday 3 May 2011

GBS & KIT KIT SPARES HAD A GREAT WEEKEND AT STONELEIGH KIT CAR SHOW........





We have just finished unpacking from an extremely busy and successful weekend at the Stoneleigh Kit Car Show. We had six cars at the show spread across two stands, including the newly designed Zero Race chassis, Zero Wide Body and three Zero customers cars Harris Adamopoulos, Graham Cole and Neil McCarthy Primett who kindly let us display their Zero Builds on our stands.
It was also great to see all the other Zero customers over the weekend and all the Robin Hood owners club members, who were camping over for the whole weekend with a great turn out of over 150 members attending.

As well as all the GBS cars at the show, we also had a full range of parts from Kit Spares which was extremely busy. Kit Spares is adding new products everyday to the website, we are pleased to now be stocking a full range of Smith Gauges, Gaz Shock Absorbers and Gulf Oil as well as AT Power products. Also we now have the MT75 Quickshift in stock!!!!
It was a great weekend and we are now looking forward to the next show which will be Detling Kit Car Show which is later this month 21st & 22nd May. We look forward to seeing you all there.

Please visit www.kitspares.co.uk to see all our products and for more information about the Zero range please visit our website www.greatbritishsportscars.co.uk or call 01623 860 990.
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More Show photos coming soon......