Thank god its Friday..

Its been a good week at KDT , Dwayne finished an engine change in a DOLLY 1850 A slight upgrade was used in the form of a TR7 motor..Runs good..Tony got his MK2 PI MOTd and ready for sale (nice original low miles car !! ) ON CARS FOR SALE PAGE.Iv been flat out working on Karl Stanfords Coupe ..3 days to get both doors built up.I did have to strip 5 s/h doors to get the best stuff though... See the Coupes progress on the projects pages .. Were off to Santa Pod again this weekend for the Mopar Nationals ..should be good .. The Drag Coupe hasnt been touched this week nor the MK3 GT6 that were building to sell as Karl Stanfords coupe must be finished for the Stafford Show no excuses !! Have a good weekend all .. kd

Hope everyones enjoying the summer, bout time we had one. The KDT crew have been busy with work and at play over the months finishing a few project cars off and starting some fresh ones..Follow the Projects page to see what weve been building or working on .. we will try to include all of the cars from the past 12 months if we can dig out the pics.. The Hot Rod and custom shows have been fantastic this year With NSRA at Billing Aquadrome, Dragstalgia at Santa Pod and Nostalgia Nationals at Shakespere Raceway .The next weekend away will be at the Mopar Euro Nationals Santa Pod a first for us to this meet ..should be good. Were trying to learn all we can about the Drag Racing Scene as our own Drag car build is well under way (projects page !!)ready to Run what ya brung the start of 2014 then Race mid season in a Street ET Class. Another show were looking foward to is the TSSC International at Stafford in August ..should be a good show as its the Triumph 2000 and Bonds 50th aniversary.. we will be showing off one of our restoration 2000s completed last year.. And Karl Stanfords 1959 Red Top Coupe.. Thats it for now ..update next week .. seeya kd

NSRA ESSEX SWAP MEET 2013

First time for us to this event and jeesus what an event.. i really have been missing out.
The main supply of parts and stuff usually come from the Newark Auto jumble every couple months but if its Hot Rod or Drag Car stuff then Essex is the place. Why is it only once a year ??
Surely such a well attended show by traders and punters alike should be at least a couple of times a year.
We arrived at 10.30 and still had to Que up for half hour to get in AND IN A MINUS 10 BLIZZARD..
Good job I'm only starting to build the chassis for my Coupe and don't actually know what stuff I'm after yet or i could of easily spent a fortune there.. ended up just buying a Chevy pic up For parts it had a 350 Ci engine and rebuilt th350 auto box complete rolling cab , with an earlier Chevy pic up rear bed plonked on it.. we needed a donor bed for the Vanguard Truck were building and i needed an engine and box to play with for the Coupe.. perfect.
Fantastic day mooching about looking at cool stuff.
Nice one.

Kd 
 

KDT DOES STONELEIGH

By the feedback from show goers was by all accounts a good show ..lots positive comments all round just the Triumph only parking should of been inside not split into 2 filds outside..anyway if thats all they had to moan about then its a good thing. Looks like a positive year ahead for the Triumph scene in general and for KDT C&C with a good intrest in the cars we built and showed .. Must admit i was proud of the KDT crew they did a stunning job im very proud of the lads even the part time crew you know who you are.. Thanks to my team :- Tony Ballony, Dwayne, Dean, Chaz banger, Little David, Craig McQueen, Justin Bustin and Mc Douggie. Car of the show for me has to be the 9.90 Blown SBC Supergas Herald ..Spot on Tony , nice one.

SHOWTIME

Well were defiantly in as we've just put a stand up in hall 4.. Cant miss us as were black and yellow with a couple of cars to look at.. no suspension on show as they still not ready.. Got most parts covered but final machining to be done.
The MK1 PI will be there on show as will be the black 2.5 EFI Spitfire we built a few years back  still looking pretty good for its age..The 59 Red Top powered Coupe  will be on show as a "work in progress" display of what were up to and showing the Subaru diff kit that's fitted ..so come have a look a chat and sit down with a beer on the stand and enjoy..
See you there..

Kd

Hall 4

Cool , we've been told were in hall 4 next to a club stand , which club i don't know but were in..
Just need to get the polish out ready to show the MK1 PI we built last year and hope we can get a KDT Classic & Custom Subaru diff  kit ready to show as not heard from the machine shop yet to tell me the parts are ready...could be a bit last minute..but it should look like this one that's fitted to the 59 Coupe were finishing off......

KDT SUBARU DIFF CV TRIUMPH CONVERSION

kd

Show time ....

Bloody Stoneleigh show is in 2 1/2 weeks and weve just found out they lost our booking forms and then told us they were fully booked... We definatly will be there but looks like we wont be in the posh halls as expected but hall 4 now.. Not a real problem just a shame as we had 3 nice cars to show off .. hope they can still squeeze us in.. will know more this weekend as live promotions are still finalising the floor plans as we speak.. Rant over.. Back to finishing the Red Top 59 Coupe off just in case we do get a spot big enough to take two cars at least. The MK1 PI Saloon came back from the paint shop yesterday having its final mop over and touch up so thats one car ready. Cheers Kd