Complete Car Builder magazine — featuring CKC

The 'new' home of CKC and British car building. Component Cars. Hot Rods. Grassroots Motorsport. Specials. And so much more for the #builtnotbought enthusiast

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🚨 Our new issue is out now in store and online 🚨

Head over to https://t.co/hiiwzl4NQI for more on what’s inside as well as how to buy, subscribe and join in the fun.

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We're getting some great feedback regarding Complete Car Builder 'Number One,' but if you haven't caught us in store or online yet there's still time to bag a first edition of the UK's newest #builtnotbought magazine with either a £25 UK subscription (https://t.co/ntfg8HKeQh) or a single issue purchase in store or with free UK postage online: https://t.co/ZfViJmthV5
Inside you'll learn all about how the 'Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250' Haynes Manual led to a whole movement in car building from the engineer/author Ron Champion himself... and find out all about the future of Locost Number One to boot.
Beyond that we uncover the sheds that birthed the Lotus brand, meet a 300-plus BHP MG Midget missile, get to grips with a circuit ready hot rod, go autotesting, dive deep into our extensive build archive, drool over a one-off official Vanwall from the millennia and so much more. It's a packed mag, as our preview page – https://t.co/wq05bWgVs5 – proves.

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🎄 Our first evolution issue is heading out to stores and subscribers next week... and a good thing too, as it's an absolute cracker 🎁 As you can see from our preview here: https://t.co/wq05bWgVs5

If you're looking to grab a subscription for yourself or a loved one before the big day there is still time, as we will be sending all orders made before 11PM on Tuesday the 17th to Royal Mail for its last postage date in time for the big day... after which single issues will be added to the store for post Christmas deliveries.

Last minute pre-orders can be made here: https://t.co/ntfg8HKeQh

(Sadly export delivery dates cannot be calculated).

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It’s the first day of December, which is exciting… but we’re counting down to something other than the big day. That’s right, the first issue of CKC’s new title will be here just before the 25th.

If you want to be sure you’re on the list for CCB Number One, you can check out our new website and pre-order a subscription to the UK’s newest #BuiltNotBought print extravaganza below. Do that before midnight on the 17th and we’ll get it over to UK readers in time for Christmas.

It is going to be a huge transformation. #BuildDriveEnjoy

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🚨🚨🚨 Our December 2024 collector's pre-revamp issue is out now online https://t.co/UjREC8RKo6 and in store 🚨🚨🚨

This issue is not to be missed as it's the final solely CKC branded edition, which precedes our revamp into the next Complete Car Builder iteration this Christmas 🎄

Inside you'll find plenty of behind the scenes insight into the past 17 years and 223 editions, a bit on what to expect with our imminent revamp and of course... some epic kit car builds.

It's already selling out fast from our store, so any mag collectors out there will want to jump on this one.

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🚨🎄 Our Next Iteration is coming this Christmas 🎄🚨

As promised, we're now ready to reveal our big plans for 2025 and the future of the World's best selling kit car publication... which is why we dispatched Jack into the garden to tell you all about it.

There's more coming next week in the mag, and a little more info below on our website. We're super excited for this one, and hope you are too... it's going to be a big year for us and the kit car scene.

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We've been a little quiet on here for a few weeks, and there's a very big and exciting reason for that!

All of which will be revealed this weekend (and in the coming week)... so do keep an eye on our socials 👀. 2025 is going to be a mega year for the World's best selling kit car magazine.

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🚨 Our November 2024 issue is out now 🚨

Available in all good newsagents and online ( https://t.co/ntfg8HKeQh )… and it's another jam packed issue that is not to be missed. Inside you'll find:

- Adam gets to grips AK Sports Cars’ latest 8-speed automatic option for the AK427, and it wasn’t at all what we expected.
- We revisit the Westfield XTR2 via an updated and uprated kit that has been rebuilt for modern tastes and trackday needs.
- The family EKC Sonic 7 – how a low capacity father and son exoskeletal build led to a career in Engineering.
- Three-wheelers, everything you need to know about this always endearingly quirky genre of kit cars.
- How to build or restore the best Locost.
- Buying second-hand... our guide to bagging the best kit car, without the need to build it yourself!
- Rust-proofing: how to keep the dreaded tinwork away from structure.
- Every highlight from the Newark Kit Car Festival.

And so much more from the UK’s favourite kit car magazine!

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@5054magazine Imp innards attached to a super light and stiff GRP monocoque. Terrific fun, but my abiding memory of that car is how nice the Imp’s manual box is to use (in addition the bespoke brushed aluminium dash).

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🚨🚨🚨 Our October 2024 issue is out today 🚨🚨🚨

Available in all good newsagents and online – https://t.co/ntfg8HKeQh – this issue is jam packed and not to be missed. Inside you'll find:

- The homebuilt Volkswagen-based Ute conversion kit that's taking the USA by storm.
- We celebrate 60 years of the Californian beach buggy genre in News, Clubs and feature one of the UK's best homegrown GT kits.
- We look at what is likely the last Westfield from the previous Kingswinford operation... and how Toybox has refined this winning formula.
- A father and son Sonic7 build that culminated in an apprenticeship and a newfound interest in engineering.
- Retro Round-Up... Richard Heseltine digs deep to find the best (and sometimes worst) kits from his and our extensive archive.
- We tell you all about the ever-popular, and surprisingly inexpensive Honda K20 family of VTEC engines.
- Our guide to caring for and upgrading one of the many Ford Sierra-based kit cars.
- Modifying the bombastic Nova

And all the latest kit car news and club reviews.
And much, much more from the UK’s biggest kit car magazine!

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🚨🚨🚨 NEWARK SALE 🚨🚨🚨

We're all set up for the Newark Kit Car Festival this weekend, and boy do we have some great offers for you on subs, books and back issues – among other things... so do come and say hi if you're visiting on either day.

We'll also be selling our upcoming October Issue (nearly) one week before it goes out to shops from the stand.

If you can't make it, don't worry... we'll be offering the same subscriber discount – among other online only deals – via our webstore below. If you've been thinking about a 12-issue subscription for some time, now is the best time.

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🚨🚨🚨 Our September 2024 issue is out now in store and 🚨🚨🚨
online – https://t.co/ntfg8HKeQh – today...

Inside you’ll find:

– Riotous return: We bag the exclusive first drive of the new and improved Foreman P4 Ferrari replica.
– The forgotten pioneer: Revisiting the kit car great that is the Rochdale Olympic.
– Fiesta Time🎉: A look at an IVA-approved Sylva Jester kit that proves fun need not be too fast.
– Porsche Boxster donor guide... how to improve the Porsche saving sports car in kit form.
– Race Diaries – All the latest from the world of kit car motorsport.
– Modifying your Imp-based kit car classic.
– Ford Engines – We look at why Ford has been a constant player throughout kit car history.
– All the latest kit car news and club reviews.

And much, much more from the UK’s biggest kit car magazine.

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207/? Today’s quick (sorry we’re super busy this week) #dailyarchivekitcar is the Vortex V2, which remains an interesting re-imagining of the Lotus Seven formula that continues to thrive in our scene.

Developed by ex-Jaguar designer and racer Chris Greville-Smith, this forward thinking mid-engined sports car — is still like little else, despite it first hitting the scene over ten years ago. It certainly still turns heads… but what do you reckon to it?

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206/? Another quick one we’re afraid as we’re busy featuring up-to-date kit cars… but we’re not ready to quit yet… so here is the lovely Apal GT (1961-1965), which came all the way from Liege, Belgium 🇧🇪.

Beetle-based, but with the option of a very special Porsche-engined variant, the Apal G GT is basically a very nice classic kit car that we wanted to share with you as part of our #dailyarchivekitcar service. Enjoy!

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205/? We’re pretty tired after a long day… so we thought we’d share a #dailyarchivekitcar that you should all know to save a bit of time. So here it is, the immortal Lotus Elan.

Like many purchase tax dodgers from the pre-VAT days, the Elan was mainly available as turn-key car… and we don’t doubt this early example was built in Lotus’s old Cheshunt factory. A) because it’s a rare early 1500cc example and B) because it was none other than Jim Clark’s company car — some of you may remember the famous print advert it featured in.

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204/? Nick Findeisen’s NCF marque made its name in the 1980s with square-edged would-be 4x4s like the Diamond 💎, before progressing onto genuinely capable off-roaders like the NCF Arctic below in the decades that followed.

Based on the Suzuki Vitara, this spaceframed 4x4 proved to be quite the mud-plugger, as well as a rare looker that worked its ruled edges well.

The model stayed around for a while, spending its latter years under FourWD, which took over NCF Arctic and Sahara production in 2015. Since then everything has gone quiet on the Arctic front, but we live in hope that we may hear more again soon.

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203/? TVR may have made its mark outside of our sphere, but the marque did get its start here by making many GT kits like the Grantura below from its Bristol Avenue works in Blackpool🎢.

The Grantura was the start of something special for TreVoR Wilkinson’s brand, and would eventually go on to form the basis of Jack Griffith’s insane Ford Smallblock V8 engined… well… Griffith 200 (and later 400). This was a car that pretty much foreshadowed what the marque would become in its later, Peter Wheeler run, heyday of the 1980s and ’90s.

Like many of ‘our brands’ that hit the big time, TVR moved away from kit offerings around 1973 — when VAT replaced purchase tax — but there’s still a lot of love for the marque here.

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