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A Locost is a home-built car inspired by the Lotus Seven. The car features a space frame chassis usually welded together from mild steel 1 in × 1 in (25 mm × 25 mm) square tubing. Front suspension is usually double wishbone with coil spring struts.
Locust is a kit car inspired by the Lotus Seven. It was first developed in the mid 1980s as a cheap kit car to be built onto the chassis of a Triumph Spitfire, it was later developed into a full kit car which used its own fully designed ladder chassis - unlike others using space frame.
Haynes Roadster is a replica of a Lotus Seven home-built car, according to the book Build Your Own Sports Car: On a Budget by Chris Gibbs (ISBN 1-84425-391-0). A Ford Sierra is used in the car as a donor for drivetrain and suspension components. The Haynes Roadster is a follow-up to the Locost design described in a book by Ron Champion.
Fiberfab FT Bonito, a kit car on a VW Beetle chassis Locost frame and body panels 1972 Sterling Nova/ Purvis Eureka/ Eagle (South Africa). A kit car is an automobile available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then assembles into a functioning car.
Such cars are often referred to as "sevenesque" [25] or simply a "seven" or "se7en". Sometimes they are also called clubmans or "locost". Some examples are: Birkin (North America) TSV sports car seven. 527 ShortCut from Russia with Lada engine & parts. Almac Clubsprint, by Almac, a kit car manufacturer in New Zealand
The MK Indy is a Lotus 7 replica based on the Locost principle, production started in 1997 and built by MK Sportscars in Maltby, Rotherham. [1] The Indy has an independent rear suspension using the differential and drive shafts from a Ford Sierra. [2] It uses many other components from the Sierra, [3] including front hubs and steering rack.
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The Robin Hood badge Robin Hood with 1993 cc engine Robin Hood S3. Robin Hood Engineering Ltd was a British kit car manufacturer based in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire.. The factory covered 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2) and was on a one and a half acre si