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Well, we’re now well into the New Year & Spring might be just around the corner. It’s been all change on the Committee of the Club with myself stepping down as Chair & Mark Faint taking over, Malcolm Folwer has been replaced by Roy Stevens on Events, so now it’s the 2 Roys in charge

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Social Media

As some of you may be aware EKC are also using Social Media, namely Facebook, in addition to the main website for announcing Events. We have now created accounts on Twitter and Instagram to help spread awareness of the club and bring in new members. These should also help linking up with events, clubs and other motor interested

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Best Club Stand at Hatfield Heath Festival

Today we attended the Hatfield Heath Festival, which has been a favourite amongst club members for the last few years.  The festival is  attended by around 250 vehicles and a well organised family fair. Other local establishments also provide activities to make this show a success. Good news today we won first prize for the

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Members Cars: Mike

Mike bought his car, a JBA Falcon Sports SRi, as a built car in 2013. He was seduced by its looks, with a design loosely based on the 1930s Jaguar SS1. As it was already finished to a high standard he’s not done much to it beyond a few minor improvements. Being Sierra-based with a

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Members Cars: Dan

At Essex Kitcar Club, we are lucky enough to have, not just one manufacturer within our members, but two! Russ, our chairman produces the Furore Formula & we also have Dan Carpenter who now has the rights, jigs & moulds for the V – Storm WR3, just take a look at the pics below. The

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Breakfast Meet Feb 2016

This was clearly one of the best attended breakfast meets we have had. Although I’d like to credit it to the new website, I think we just had the right balance of weather and perfect timing. Either way it was great to see 10 Kits turn up and almost 20 people to enjoy D’s breakfasts.

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Members Cars: John

John’s Cyclone is a heavily modified version of the kit car that was offered for sale in the early 2000’s with a Vauxhall 2 litre twin cam engine. John’s has a 1.7 litre Ford Racing Puma engine which required extensive modifications to the original including a unique rear suspension. This and countless other more discretionary

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Members Cars: Dave

As well as the Fury also listed in our members cars, Dave has built this beautiful Dax Cobra. Dave was running an XJ6 & it became apparent that it was going to cost more to MoT the car than it had cost, so a useful donor was born! The kit was purchased from Dax Sportscars

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Members Cars: Dave

Dave’s Fisher Fury Spider took 18 months to build using a kit of new parts from Fisher Sportscars, the only second hand part was the engine, an 1800cc Zetec from a Mondeo, now sporting Webber carbs & a Webcon management system. The gearbox is a modified Sierra unit with an extra tall 1st gear, purchased

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