Useful £ocost Links

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The Locost Car Club Website

Kit Car Links (Over 500 links to all thing kit car)

Locost Builders   (Excellent Bulletin Board for Locosters)

Locost Mailing List   (Exchange Information About Locosts)

Topkits (New kitcar website which will grow rapidly.  Loads of interesting cars)

 

 Parts Suppliers

Autoprop   (Specialise in one off propshafts.  Made to order)

Burton Power  (If your Locost is Ford powered, check this out and drool)

Car Builder Solutions (Lots of useful bits and pieces including fixings & fastenings)

C.O.H. Baines Limited   (Rubber extrusions for all sorts of things.  Grommet strip, panel edging etc.)

Extruded Rubber and Rubber Extrusion Manufacturers (Even more sources for rubber extrusions. USA)

Fast Fix Direct (Nuts, bolts and tools etc)

Holden Vintage and Classic   (lots of period / modern stuff)

ISSPRO (Nice instruments and gauges. Very helpful staff.  Thanks Jennifer)

Namrick   (Nuts & bolts plus lots of other useful bits)

Merlin Motorsport   (Lots of bits for racing plus a supplier of Rivnuts and setting tool.)

Screwfix (Tools, fixings & fastenings, adhesives etc. etc.)

Speedy Spares  (Great for getting those discontinued bits)

SFC Fastfix Solutions (Various fixings including SVA compliant push turn fasteners)

Vulcan Engineering

Woolies  (Trim etc for classics, but lots of useful stuff for Locosts.  Nice Brooklands style aero screens)

 Places to find bits or advertise surplus items/cars

ebay (Bargains to be had, but don't get carried away)

Kit Car Mart (Parts for sale, free ads and wanted and more)

 Specialised Locost Suppliers

Champion Motor Car Company (U.S. Manufacturer for Ron Champion + Pics of owners cars.)

Cougar Racing Developments (Ford parts for Locosts + GAZ Shocks)

Daniels Engineering   (Supplier of Locost parts including chassis and reconditioned axles etc.)

Dwornik Engineering Ltd

Lolocost (Locost chassis, coilovers, fibre glass etc)

Locost Merchandise   (Read the book, Built the car?  Now get the T-shirt. Everything from badges to boiler suits.)

Luego Racing

Martin Keenan's Site (Locosts and components )

Procomp Engineering

Stuart Taylor Motorsport

White Pointer Ltd   (Australian supplier of fibre glass nosecones and body parts)

Useful bits and pieces

Rear axle ratio calculation   (Turn the rear wheels and count the propshaft revs. Look at FAQ 17.)

Insurance

Footman  James   (Specialise in insuring Kit cars and classic vehicles.  Limited mileage etc.)

The SVA and DVLA

DVLA  (DVLA Motoring page)

Vehicle Inspectorate (SVA Info)

SVA Manual Online!!   The homepage of Jépé Mast and his Marlin build.  Thanks to gerritdegraafnl of the Locost List for finding this.

Locost Club Sites

MK Owners Club (Club for the MK Engineering Indy and GT1)

Peterborough Locost Club  (Site for Peterborough Area  Locosters.  Maintained by Gordon Robbins)

Teeside Locost Club (For Locosters in the Teesside, North Yorkshire and County Durham region.)

Personal web pages 

Adam Brighton  (About the builder, location, contact, for sale, links and chat)

Alan Bertwistle's Toyota 4-AGE based mid-engined car.

Alex Roebuck's Loco Ninja  (Dated photos and diary of the build, article, costs, links and contact) 

Amadeu Pires (Excellent site with clear photos and text in English & Portugese)

Andy's Locost Site

Another Locost Site  (Nosecone plans, the Celica donor and drawings)

Anthony Pralet's LocoRAGE  (A build based on a Toyota 4AGE. Diary, costs, SVA test, photos, links and contact.)

Ashurst 7 Special  (Build history, chassis, donor parts, assembly and links)

Aussie Locost Build  (Description of the project, FAQ, diary, link, submission, list of parts required and library of information.)

Ben Chapman's Locost build (Build using an MX5)

BK's Sevenesque Sports Car  (The plan, front and rear suspension, interior, motor, transmission, exterior, links and contact)

British Racing Circuit Page

Bruce Borrows' Locost  (About building the project, engine, donor, links, specifications, pictures and contact)

Chris Gibb's Locost  (Links, tips, build story, specifications, news, Pinto information, photos, GRP guide and SVA.)

Chris Gibbons Sports 7  Plastic Tank Man (Build story, modifications, picture gallery, links, test, shows, meets and MK Indy SVA)

CJ's Indycar Build  (Describes a project using the MK Engineering 'Indy' chassis. How it all started, the donor, diary, why choose the 'Indy', collecting the kit and links)

Chris James

Chris Renney (Excellent site.  Well designed with some great detailed photos)

Colin Lourie

Craig Chamberlain's Build (New build diary started February 2003)

Darren Ponton

Dave Ashurst

Dave Osborne's Locost Build Diary  ( The book, inspiration, Stuart Taylor Ltd., photo galleries, finished car, links, insurance quotes and SVA)

David Jenkins

David O'Sullivan's Locost Sports Car  ( Work diary, photos and budget)

Dick Lukoszek Building the Clubman  ( Photos and build diary)

DIYSportsCar.org  ( The design of a mid-engined Locost)

Dominic Peterson

Dr. Hess

Eddy McClements' Locost Page  (Build diary and photos of a project using a Toyota 4AGE)

Ewan's 4x4 Locost Car Build  (Diary, deviations, shopping list, favorite tools, information, forum, Glen's XR4, Simon's Locostesque and pictures) 

Erwin Dekker's Dutch 7 lookalike

Gary Burn's Locost pages

Graham Webb's Locost pages

Graeme Young

Greg Rowell

JC's Locost page

João Martin  (Powered by a Yamaha R1 Engine)

Jeff Underwood

Jim McSorley (Loads of excellent CAD drawings, cutting list etc etc)

John's Locost Pages  (Northern Ireland Locost Site)

Les Newell

Marcus and Roland Build Diary

Mark Eastwood's Locost (Australian Build)

Mark's Locost Site

Matthew Clements  (Very nice MK Fireblade powered Locost, also a very brave man)

Mike Polan

Peter Dunn's 7 page  (Loads of great resources)

Peter Ogden's Locost Pages   (Excellent site with a lot of useful information)

Peter Peterson's (V8 powered Locost)

Peter Sutton

Phil Rowe's Locost pages

Richard Marsdens's Locost pages  (Honda Fireblade powered)

Roja's Locost site (New site from a new builder)

Roger Harris (Racing Locost)

Rob Lane's Build page

Rob Lee

Simon Gigney's Site (Australian Mazda MX5 build)

Simon Rook

Steve Graber (Not a Locost, but the same principles)

Steve Gutterson (The Valkyrie Six.  A Locost looking like a Morgan)

Tim Waddell

Wayne Evans Locost (Build diary of a Locost being built in Texas)

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