Vindicator Sprint


Back in 2005 we decided that we couldn't keep the Supra anymore as there were a few drawbacks to it :

So I started thinking about Kit Cars (again) it's one of those things I'd thought about off and on since I was a kid so I started looking around but with the requirements including deccent performance, fuel economy and 5 seats options were limited I looked at Chesil and Pilgrim speedstaers - very pretty but too expensive and not enough go, I found Banham doing a 356 speedster(ish) based on a Metro - don't laugh you can get a deccent bit of power out of the MPI version so we trotted off to see that .... well we weren't convinced (to put it mildly) and there wasn't actually a working demonstrator so it was back to the drawing board.
A few months went by and we hadn't seen anything so we trotted off to the Stonleigh Kit Car show and there buried amongst the usual crew was a make I hadn't heard of before Vindicator they were showing a new concept that they had which was to stretch their existing Sprint (out of the LSIS stable) and fit seats in the back ! this was it, it had the handling and space requirements and engine choice was up to me - bingo ! so I got chatting to John Butler and the ball started rolling.
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Move on one year and after some real headaches we're actually getting on with the build.
The engine we've gone for is the Rover T16 2 Litre Turbo from a Rover 820, this should give us 200bhp, and still give reasonable fuel economy, so sounds good - but this has been easier said than done
We're going for the Mk IV body style to get a more modern take on the styling and we've chosen a bright green
RAL 6018

Towards the end of June 2006 the chassis arrived with us like this :
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John and his crew have done a fantastic job in getting things going and I'm sure they never want to see another Rover engine ever again but it will be worth it - it will be worth it So progress so far is slow - with kids and work everything is slow - but steady and I've started to get some images together here