Looking for a used Zero? Then we have some available that you might like...

Are you looking for a used Zero? Then we have this very nice spec Zero available... GBS Zero GT (2013)

We often get asked if there any used Zero’s available and we are pleased to share this very nice factory build one that is being sold on behalf of a GBS Customer. This Zero is a great example of a 2013 Factory build car, that has had one loving owner with full factory service history and has only covered 12,500 miles with full MOT, it has also had many factory modifications and upgrades to improve performance making it a very capable car.
The car is a GT chassis offering more room for the occupants with stainless steel panels our GT touring seats accompanied by TRS 4-point harness and seat runners on both sides. The car comes complete with full wet weather gear (door, roof, boot cover)

It is a 2L Zetec engine that produces 230bhp, the modified engine was built by renowned Ford engine builder Harvey Gibbs and was built from a brand new create engine. See below some photographs of this Zero.

Or if you are looking for a little bit of fun to use on the track then we have another Zero that you might be interested in. We are selling our Zero Race / Track Day demonstrator as we have a new one that is now in production. It is not road registered or IVA Tested, but could be made road legal with modifications and IVA, it’s a standard Race Chassis with fully welded intergrated Roll Cage powered by a  Ford 2L Zetec Engine 180 BHP.

If you are interested in either of these Zero’s that we have for sale then please visit our Used Car page where you will find more details or please contact us for more details and to look to arrange a visit in the near future.

We are also pleased to offer finance… We are in Partnership with Pegasus Finance and can offer you finance options on the GBS range and associated products, including our Zero self build kits. Please click here for more details about our finance options and to get an instant quote.

Spot the difference…. GBS Zero Race at Silverstone, there are 16 differences hope you can spot them! Click here to download and Print off.

GBS Factory Tour…… You can’t visit us, so we bring the GBS Factory to you.

GBS Factory Tour…… You can’t visit us, so we bring the GBS Factory to you…..
Due to the Coronavirus (COVID 19) the GBS Factory is closed for visitors so we are unable to invite you to see us, but after getting a lot of enquiries we are pleased to share a video that we have created taking you on a full factory tour and behind the scenes of GBS including our manufacturing site which not many of you have seen before. The video is over 40 minutes and the sections it covers are - Introduction GBS / Kit Spares, Show Room, Main Stores, Bodywork, Manufacturing, Engineering, Clean & Assembly Room, Design Room, Workshop & Test Drive in our demonstrators. (You can skip sections, in the description) Please click here to watch the video on our site or click here to visit our GBS YouTube Channel.

We are working hard here at Great British Sports Cars to ensure the safety and well being of Staff and Customers to enable us to provide the same service and to continue to stay open.

The GBS & Kit Spares Showroom is now closed to the public to visit until further notice, but our phone lines are still fully OPEN as is our Kit Spares website and eBay Shop. Please see links www.kitspares.co.uk and Kit Spares eBay Shop. Also, good news is that our workshop is open for necessary vehicle repair and servicing, IVA preparation etc. Our staff have taken all necessary precautions during this difficult time, so if you are needing necessary work, please get in contact to see how we can help you and also look to get it booked in.

Those that are interested in a Zero self build or factory built car please still get in touch still via email or phone and we can send you details and answer all your questions that you may have, please do watch our factory tour video as that will show what we have available and what we are up to. As soon as test drives in our demonstrators will be available we will let you know.

We would like to thank you all for your co-operation at this unprecedented time. Stay safe and we look forward to seeing you all again very soon!

Enjoy the Easter weekend.
Best wishes to you all from all the team here at GBS.

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Great to see Father & Son enjoying their newly registered Mazda based Zero....

We always love to see father and son’s enjoying their Zero’s together, it’s a very popular project that can be enjoyed together over many years. Last month GBS Customer Matt Oakley and his 9 year old Son Fraser visited us at that factory in their newly registered GBS Zero Mazda. Matt collected his Zero in May 2018 and it was IVA tested and registered beginning of March. It’s a 1.8 Mazda based Zero on ATR Products Throttle Bodies, with ATR Products Suspension and many other nice optional extras. Their Zero is a similar colour to our new GBS Zero demonstrator but with different colour bodywork combinations, its a lovely Zero build and we look forward to seeing more photos of them out enjoying their Zero later in the year.

Fraser also sent us his Zero colouring which looks great and is coloured the same as his Zero. In a recent Blog post we gave you the chance to have a go at colouring in a Zero and add a creative background which has been popular, they all look great and thank you for sharing them with us. Click here to have ago at colouring your own Zero, we look forward to seeing more!

We look forward to seeing Matt and Fraser again later this year, and hopefully join us at our Cars & Coffee events and Track Days once things are all back to normal.

Another Zero back from paint, and a chance to colour yours…….

The GBS Workshop has been busy recently and had some very nice spec Zero’s waiting to go to paint and we have one very nice Zero that recently arrived back from paint that we are pleased to share with you. This stunning green Zero arrived back at the factory and now the build continues to get it finished. It is bright green with black stripes and nose cone band and the headlight bowls are painted to match, this Zero will be powered by a 2.5 Duratec engine on ATR Products throttle bodies. We all love it and can’t wait to see it finished now, we will share more photos as the build progresses on our Instagram where you can also see a video of it…
Follow us on Instagram to see more, paint is now becoming a very popular option for the Zero’s and every Zero that we see is always different, please visit our Personalisation page to see more options and upgrades that are available on the Zero range.

Your chance to colour your Zero…..
We saw this happening somewhere else and thought it was a great idea and would love to do it for our customers….
We understand it must be hard to keep the kids occupied in these uncertain times so here is a little something for them to do. Please see some colouring in for them (and you) to do of our new GBS Zero demonstrator. Colour the Zero in and ADD a creative background…. Could be a Race Circuit, in your garage or your favourite place! Be creative and share them with us, we will share all the drawings on our website and social media next month. We look forward to seeing what colours and background you create. Please see below to download and print.

Warmest regards & best of wishes from the entire team here at GBS.

GBS Customer collects his second Zero Self Build Kit & more Kits being exported…

A few weekends ago we welcomed GBS Customer Tim Furnival back to the GBS Factory to collect his new Gen 2 Zero Ford based Self Build Kit. This is Tim’s second Zero that he will have built and we look forward to following the build and sharing the progress with you.

Tim said “ I started the whole kit car interest with buying a Robin Hood kit, which did have a lot of challenges..…. Then I saw GBS at Staffordshire Kit Car show a number of years later having heard they had taken over Robin Hood.. straight away I could see such a difference in the early mk1 kit, so I purchased and built the car that was featured in complete kit car magazine with a transit van turbo engine in it.

Again 10 years on family and marriage later I saw Richard at the Autosport International Show and again I was hooked. Seeing all the development and updates from my kit and with the introduction of the ATR Products, again I was impressed with what was on offer and Richard had helped with purchase options and spending time talking to me about a new kit. It is a lot easier for anyone to build a car and now I think GBS has done this with all the readymade options to help you. Dare I say it definitely beats rival competitors in quality and beats them by price…..  Hence my second purchase 😃”.

Tim’s Zero made it onto the front cover and was featured in CKC Magazine in November 2009. Hopefully Tim’s next build will also be feature in magazines.

We have several other Zero self build kits that are now be prepared for collection over the next few weeks including a nicely painted Zero that is currently being packed for export to the USA and another that is going to Canada.

Our Cars and Coffee event that is happening this Saturday (21st March) is looking like its going to be a very busy day, don’t forget to let us know you are joining us so we know how many cakes to make! Click here for more details

More Zero’s soon to be on the road in the UK & USA….

The GBS Workshop is always busy, and we often have several Zero’s with us for the IVA Service that we offer. We recently prepared and presented to IVA a Ford based Zero built by GBS Customer Tom Pearce, who collected his Zero Self Build kit from us 8 years ago from the GBS factory in 2012. Tom’s Zero is now back with him and just awaiting for the registration to come through before he can get the number plates and get it on the road to enjoy some miles. (Pictured above is Tom with Keith, 8 years ago when he collected his Zero Self Build kit from us)

Tom Said “I also want to say what a pleasure it has been to deal with Gbs over the last 8 years, all the staff have been friendly and helpful, so many thanks to Richard, Keith and Yourself for all your have done to help me get my car on the road.  Please can you pass on my appreciation to Matt and the team for the outstanding job they have done finishing off my car, I couldn’t stop smiling when I saw it Tuesday evening.” 

We hope Tom can join us next month in his Zero for our first GBS Cars and Coffee event of the year, which looks like we are going to be joined by lots of other Zero owners as well as many other sports cars. Everyone is welcome to come and join us, please click here for more details about the event. Whist Tom’s Zero was with us we also did the Geometry set up, which is just one of our workshop services that we offer, click here for more details on the  workshop services that we offer.

Over in the USA its great to see that another customer’s Zero build is now also not to far of completion. GBS Customer Michael Etzel in USA visited us at the factory last summer where he enjoyed a factory tour and test drive in our Mazda demonstrator with Richard. Mike emailed last week with some photos and to say thank you to Richard for his help with the Emerald mapping at his tuners, which was a successful day and the car runs strong.
Mike said “ Strapped to the Dyno for today’s testing. The Emerald needed lots of mapping to work correctly. By days end it is running very strongly. I rebuilt a 200k mileage 1991 1.6L Miata to stock specs then installed the ATR throttle bodies. We pulled 116.5 hp @ 7000 at the wheels today. It will get me around town just fine. We need a couple more hours to verify the mapping and remove all the test equipment, button it up and were done. Very glad to be at the final stage of the build. Now to inspection, assign the vin and get it registered. A special thank you to Richard for his time talking to my tuner so we did the job correctly”.

We look forward to seeing more photographs from Mike later in the year. Click here for details on the USA Zero self build options that we offer. If you have any photographs of your Zero build, then we would love to see them and share with everyone. Please visit our contact page for details.

The first GBS Track Days of 2020 are confirmed....

After two very successful and enjoyable GBS track days last year we are hoping to do many more this year and we are pleased to have confirmed the first two for this year.  

We are pleased and excited to announce that the next GBS Track Days will be happening on Saturday 18th April at Blyton Park and then on Friday 15th May we will be at Donington Park.
Both Track Day events are via Javelin Track Days. To book your place and for more details please visit our event page or click on the links below. We recommend that you book early to avoid disappointment!
We will confirm which garage number for Donington Park Track Day we will be in nearer the time, as usual we will also be offering passenger rides on the day with one of the GBS team in the Zero’s. Passenger ride passes can be purchased on the day through Javelin Track Days, more details about that can be found on our event page.
We can’t wait and hope you can all join us in your Zero’s or just in person to enjoy the day with us, we look forward to seeing you all there.

We hope to get a few more track days in this year and are already looking to book more for later in the year, so if you can’t make these two Track Days don’t worry we will be doing more, as soon as they are confirmed we will share the details with you all.
Visit our GBS YouTube channel to see videos of the Zero’s out on the track at different race circuits and below are a few photographs.

Nice start to the year for a GBS Customer who collected his new factory built Zero…

Those of you that visited our stand earlier this month at the Autosports Show would have seen a very nice spec Zero on display along side our new Zero demonstrator. That Zero was a factory built Zero that was collected last weekend by its new owner Mr Robin Copley.
Robin and his wife Hazel came to the factory for the hand over on Saturday and to test drive their new car, then we delivered the car later that afternoon to their home.
Robin and Hazel also joined us on our stand at the Autosports Show where their Zero attracted a lot of attention over the four days, Robin’s Zero is of similar spec to our new Gen 2 Zero demonstrator which is….

Robins Zero Spec: Sport Chassis , Painted Mercedes Polar White, 2.5 Duratec Engine, Power 200 - 350 bhp, 5 Speed manual gearbox, Carbon Dash with Smiths Flight Gauges, Carbon Fibre Finishing panels, DRL Style Headlights, ATR Adjustable Suspension, ATR Brakes Front: ATR 300mm floating discs 4 pot caliper, Rear: Disc & Caliper Upgraded.

On Saturday Kurtis who built Robin’s Zero was also here for the handover along with Richard, we have already received some photos from Robin as he has already enjoyed several miles in his new Zero. Robin and Hazel have several road trips planned already for the year including a camping trip and road trip to France as well as looking forward to enjoying it out on the track too. They will also be joining us at our first GBS Cars & Coffee event which is happening on Saturday 21st March the GBS Factory, more details can be found on our events page.

You may have already seen that we made a short video from our time at the Autosports International Show and Richard talks through some of the features on the new Gen 2 Zero Factory build that was on our stand which was Robins Zero. Click here to see video.
Each factory built GBS Zero is individually hand built to your own specification, please click here for more details about the Zero factory built options.

Happy New Year to you all… We are ready for another great year ahead….

The GBS and Kit Spares team would like to wish you and your families a Happy New Year.
We all had a great Christmas break and now feel refreshed and ready for 2020 to begin.

We are all looking forward to a very busy year, it has already started off as a busy week for us, and we are now busy preparing the GBS Zero’s for our first event of the year which is the Autosport International Show where the GBS Zero’s will be on display next week. The 2020 event Calendar is also looking busy, and we are excited to have released the date for our first GBS Cars & Coffee event of 2020 and our first GBS Track Day Date will be announced to you all very soon, so make sure you keep checking our GBS Event page for more details and to see other events that we have planned that we hope you will all be able to join us on, please visit our events page.

We look forward to seeing you all very soon…

Happy New Year & Best Wishes to you all.
From
Richard, Keith and all the GBS Team.

Happy Christmas to you all and best wishes for 2020.... From all the GBS Team

All of the GBS and Kit Spares  team would like to wish you and your families a very Happy Christmas, and also like to take this opportunity to say thank you all for your support this year.

After another very successful and extremely busy year, we are now looking forward to a continued busy & successful 2020 with many new and exciting challenges ahead. It already looks like 2020 is going to be another exciting and busy year for us, we will be starting of the year with exhibiting the GBS Zero range at the Autosport International Show that is in the second week in January (9th-12th January 2020) at the NEC in Birmingham. More details about the event can be found on our event page.

We are all now looking forward to a well earned break and rest over the Christmas period and we look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. Don’t forget you can still follow us over the Christmas break on our social media channels for updates – Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Happy Christmas everyone

Best Wishes From
Richard, Keith
and all the GBS & Kit Spares Team.

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Christmas opening times for GBS & Kit Spares:
The GBS Factory and Kit Spares will be closed on Tuesday 24th December and we will be open again and back to normal opening hours on Thursday 2nd January 2020.
You can still place your orders online from our parts website Kit Spares and Kit Spares eBay Shop, but please note any orders placed after 23rd December 2019 may not be processed or dispatched until 2nd / 3rd January 2020. www.kitspares.co.uk

The Crossland family’s self-build, LNER inspired GBS Zero....

By Andrew Crossland on behalf of the Crossland family.

This is the story of The Crossland family and our GBS Zero. Sadly, our story starts on a very sad note. In January 2019, our Dad was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer. By the time it was diagnosed, it was too late to treat. However, as a family we all saw how it never broke his spirit and, in reality, actually cemented his strength, positivity and love of life. The following story should illustrate how true that is.

The early stages of cancer involve rest and extensive periods of realisation. For Dad, that meant time talking to family, processing his diagnosis and switching off by watching TV. Of the many series Dad watched, one episode of The Grand Tour stood out - where the team went to Mongolia and build a kit car. As the kit car raced across various obstacles, Dad became inspired to start another adventure. From that moment Dad decided he wanted to buy a kit car; and it took very little to persuade his sons James and Andrew to join in.

Within a month we had selected a car - a Zero by Great British Sports Cars who are based in the nearby town of Ollerton, Nottinghamshire. We took Dad to visit the factory and knew immediately that this was the place to get that dream car. Steve and Richard showed us around the factory, introduced us to the team and where the car would be built. Driving away from the factory we quickly decided that we wanted to work with GBS who, like The Crossland’s, are a family at heart.

Throughout the build of the car, GBS worked with us on all of details of the build and design. Numerous calls and emails followed. As we toured various hospitals and met with various consultants, Dad was involved. Sadly, Dad’s medical condition deteriorated and he passed away in July - leaving a devastated family but one strangely motivated and empowered by the attitude Dad took to his life. It’s worth saying how he never once complained about being diagnosed. For Dad it was part of his life and the path weaved for him. Ahead of him lay obstacles and targets, just like life always had. A major target was James’s birthday - and a speech that, typical of Dad, left us all crying and laughing. Treatment was a path to be walked. Hurry on Sundown, see what tomorrow brings. Life’s for living. We took every day step by step as a family and as close as we always had been.

James and I were fortunate to have that closeness throughout our upbringing. One of our earliest memories is standing on a grass bank in Retford watching a beautiful blue steam train on the East Coast Mainline. James, Dad, Grandad, our Great Grandfather and myself all worked on the railways and we grew up exploring our great country or visiting friends by train - initially on a free rail pass as part of Dad’s job. Trips to York with friends, girlfriends and family didn’t feel right without a trip to the National Railway Museum. In each trip came a seminal moment; walking up to Mallard. The locomotive was designed by Nigel Gresley and built opposite Dad’s office in Gresley House. Synonymous with an age of speed, Mallard became the world’s fastest running at 126mph in 1939. That record still stands today.

As a family, we have a tradition in the National Railway Museum of placing our hands on Mallard and uttering the immortal words “how are you doing old girl” before taking photos. In family, folklore these words were passed down from our Grandad who used to fire the engine. To friends from around the world it was a Crossland oddity and one that as a family we got used to being laughed at as we took photos. To James and I, Mallard is that beautiful blue train that we watched from the grass bank during our childhood.

A few weeks after Dad passed away, I visited York with a close friend. As is traditional and non-negotiable, Mallard featured in the trip and memories came flooding back. A few weeks later, James and I contacted GBS with our idea - to change the theme of our car from British Racing Green to a custom designed paying homage to Mallard and our relationship with it.

Initially, it was an email sent with much trepidation. We actually made two requests to GBS - firstly for completely customised paint work and also to run the car on biofuel (more on that in another blog). Steve, Richard and the team immediately responded and they seemed genuinely excited by the idea. Within a few weeks, we visited the factory where Richard had marked up the vehicle with his proposed design. The attention to detail Richard had paid to the design blew me away, and he spotted parts of the locomotive’s design that I had never seen before. This was also Mum’s first trip to GBS and we were quickly joined by the rest of the GBS team to discuss the design. Perhaps it was the emotion of the day for us, but we genuinely felt an energy and excitement about the car. We drove away with a smile.

At this stage it’s also important to mention a small additional feature to the vehicle which is important to myself. I work in renewable energy with environmentalism and carbon saving really critical to my being. As a result of discussions with GBS, we believe that this will be the first biofuel compatible Zero in the world, meaning that I can drive the car in the knowledge that it has environmental credentials which drive everything I do in my professional life.

Within weeks the car was painted and the family sat enjoying photos of our beautiful garter blue vehicle coming together via emails from GBS and on social media – an amazing feet given that we were living our lives in New Zealand, Warwick and Retford.

The big reveal and delivery of the vehicle came on 17th December 2019 at the GBS factory in Ollerton. It was clear to us as a family how excited GBS were about the car, and that was evident by the smiles and warm welcome we (Mum, Nana, James and I) received on arrival. Steve, Ruth and Richard were evidently thrilled by the car and appearance. The result is a stunningly beautiful, tastefully delivered and hugely charismatic custom painted vehicle that we are thrilled to start putting together. The car looks even better in person than in the photos.

Writing this we are about to embark on the build. As a family we will share photos with you via GBS. We also hope that, once built, the car will be used by GBS to showcase the Zero and the customisation options available to enthusiasts – from paint to biofuels.

As Great British Sports Cars we were delighted to have met Andrew and James’s dad and pleased that he got the chance to visit the GBS factory, we are sure he would be very proud of his Sons and Family. As soon as the Crosslands let us know about their paint idea, we thought this would be stunning and we were excited as it is something very different and also very special.

The Zero was sat in our workshop for a while before it was collected and attracted a lot of attention especially when it was on display at our Christmas Cars & Coffee event beginning of December. Their Zero spec is a 175 calibre and will be powered by a Ford 2L Zetec engine and is biofuel ready. We look forward to following the Crossland’s build and sharing more with you as it progresses.

GBS Zero has arrived in the USA just in time for Christmas….

Yesterday we had a very happy customer in USA….. GBS Customer Will McDonald took delivery of his new Zero Self Build Kit which was a very nice spec kit that included the new ATR Front Brake upgrade kit and many other nice popular options and upgrades. The kit was collected from us at the end of October and was a very smooth door to door delivery, which saw Paul Barnes our USA representative collect the kit from our USA shipping agent depot then onto Will’s house for the delivery. We are pleased that it has made it to Will just in time for Christmas and he will be kept busy over the Christmas period, we look forward to receiving photographs as the build progresses.
There is also another Zero Race self build kit that is currently on the way now to USA and will arrive early in January, we will share more on that delivery next year with you all. Please click here for more details about the USA Zero spec and click here for details on the Zero build options.

Today was also a special day for the Crossland Brothers and family who we welcomed back to the GBS Factory, Andrew and James came to collect their Zero self build kit. If you have visited the GBS Factory recently then you will have seen their stunning painted Zero that has been in our workshop, it was also on display in our workshop at our Christmas Cars and Coffee event that took place earlier this month. There is a nice story behind Andrew and James’s Zero build and choice of colour, spec etc which we will be sharing with you before Christmas.

Don’t forget you can follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter too, where you will see more photographs of what we are up to and behind the scenes.

Christmas opening times for GBS & Kit Spares:
The GBS Factory and Kit Spares will be closed on Tuesday 24th December and we will be open again and back to normal opening hours on Thursday 2nd January 2020.
You can still place your orders online from our parts website Kit Spares and Kit Spares eBay Shop, but please note any orders placed after 23rd December 2019 may not be processed or dispatched until 2nd / 3rd January 2020. www.kitspares.co.uk

GBS Zero just in time for Christmas and our Christmas Opening Hours…..

Its been busy couple of weeks with lots of Zero kit collections and exports, last week we had a GBS Zero Race Self Build kit collected that’s now on the way to a new customer in America, this is the last kit of year to go to America the next one will be going in January. We also had a David Kerslake from Northampton come with his son to collect his new Zero Ford based self build kit, David has wanted to build a kit car for several years and now he is very excited that his dream has come true and the build is now actually happening.

Yesterday we had a Sweden Spec Zero kit collected that is going to a be an educational build for students in Sweden, and we also welcomed Ian Whitman back to the factory yesterday to collect his Zero Mazda kit.

Next week the final Zero self build kit of 2019 is being collected by two brothers, we will share more on that kit collection with you soon as there is nice story behind their build and spec of build.

Father and Son Jerry and Matt Haller also sent us some photos of some parts, the new ATR Products front hubs, brakes and suspension that are now assembled and were recently fitted to their Zero which looks like its coming along nicely. They both joined us on Saturday at our Christmas Cars and Coffee and said there build is going well and are both really enjoying it. You can now see more photos from our Christmas Cars and Coffee event last Saturday on GBS Facebook page. Please click here.

Christmas opening times for GBS & Kit Spares:
The GBS Factory and Kit Spares will be closed on Tuesday 24th December and we will be open again and back to normal opening hours on Thursday 2nd January 2020.
You can still place your orders online from our parts website Kit Spares and Kit Spares eBay Shop, but please note any orders placed after 23rd December 2019 may not be processed or dispatched until 2nd / 3rd January 2020. www.kitspares.co.uk

Its been another great year… Just some of our favourite photographs from 2019…

Its happened again, 2019 has been another great year for the GBS team and we have been to some amazing places with the Zero’s. There are so many photo’s to share but here are just a few of our favourite photos and moments that we have captured during the year, next year is already looking like it’s going to be another very busy & exciting year for us with lots happening. We have lots of exciting things to share with you all in the new year!

We had the best ever GBS Cars & Coffee event in March which saw the car park overflowing with all sorts of Sports Cars! We look forward to many more successful GBS Cars & Coffee events in 2020.

We attend lots of shows & events throughout the year and this year we were delighted to have the Zero on the Yokohama stand at the Silverstone Classic who are the official tyre partner.

Electric Zero - The GBS concept EV platform: The chassis is bespoke to allow for the concept EV powertrain. Click here to read more on the electric Zero.

We have painted alot of Zero’s this years, which now seems to be a very popular option for the Zero, this is just one of our favourites that we painted for a customer! Click here to see more options that are available on the Zero.

The new GBS & Kit Spares Show room got bigger… You can now view a lot of the options & upgrades that are available for the Zero’s and other Sports Cars, including engine set ups.

Thomas our apprentice has been with us for 4 years now. Thomas is studying at Rotherham College where he attends for 1 day a week. You can read more about Thomas on our Blog. Click here

GBS Team were with the Zero’s at Laguna Seca raceway home of the famous “Corkscrew” complex of corners for the Miatas Reunion at Laguna Seca. Read more.

We are always busy developing new products and our ATR Product range is expanding, the Throttle Bodies, Suspension and Brakes are just some of the favourites for the Zero’s! www.atrproducts.co.uk

Track Days with the Zero’s…. This year we have only been able to do two Track Days one at Donington Park and the other at Blyton Park. Keep checking our event page to see next years Track Days!

Our New GBS Zero demonstrator that is powered by a 2.5 Duratec engine was released in September and was seen on display on our stand at Goodwood Revival for the first time.

Its been a very busy year for Zero kit collections and factory builds, with lots of Zero’s also being exported. There is still several kits being exported and collected over the next few weeks.

The GBS Workshop is always busy and often has a great selection of sports cars in and not always Zero’s. The Ford Escort Mk2 that we currently have has attracted a lot of attention. Click here for more details about our workshop services that we offer.

We hope you can all join us this Saturday (7th December) at the GBS Factory for our last event of the year  which is our Christmas Cars & Coffee event of the year…. The weather is looking good and we will have plenty of mince pies for you all to enjoy… Please see more details on our event page or GBS Facebook page.

Follow the GBS Team on Instagram to see more of what we are upto & behind the scenes… @gbs_cars

GBS Zero being enjoyed on the road & another Zero self build kit collected...

Its also busy back at the GBS Factory with more Zero kit collections, last Friday we had Tom and Debbie husband and wife from Cambridge who we welcomed back to the factory to collect their Zero Mazda self-build kit.  

There are still lots of kits scheduled for collection / delivery before Christmas and January looks like its going to be very busy too.

Will you be joining us on Saturday 7th December at the GBS Factory for our GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event, its looking like its going to be another great event and busy with lots of you already saying that you will be joining us. More details can be found on our event page, and GBS Facebook page.

Competition time… Don’t forget to visit our GBS Facebook page or click here for the Chance to WIN a GBS Hoodie, and also Kit Spares are now giving you the chance to WIN a £25 Kit Spares Gift Voucher, visit there Facebook page for more details or click here.

We always love to receive photos from customers out and about enjoying their Zero and Zero Builds, we recently received some photographs from GBS Customer Steve Blundell who completed his Zero self build kit back in August this year. Steve said that he has been out for a couple of runs to build up confidence so far before doing any big drives. We look forward to seeing more photographs from Steve and hopefully see him next year at one of our GBS events or track days. If you have any photographs of your Zero whether it be on the road and registered or in the garage being built we always like to see photos and share on here with others.

Another GBS Zero Kit is collected & its Competition time…..

Father & Son collect their Zero kit….. Last Saturday GBS Customer Nick Mann and his son Michael from Guernsey came to collect their Zero Mazda self build kit, we were also very busy with test drives in our Zero demonstrator. If you would like to arrange  a test drive and factory visit please get in touch and we can look to book you in for a visit.
We are also now busy packing a Zero Race Self build kit that is scheduled to be collected next week that will be going to a new customer in the USA, and we have a few more Zero self build collections this week. Think everyone is wanting their Zero’s for Christmas so they can keep busy and start their builds over the holidays! For more details on the Zero self build options click here.

Its Competition time again….. Make sure you visit our GBS Facebook page today as we have just announced a GBS competitions.  For the chance to WIN a GBS Hoodie head over to our GBS Facebook page  all you have to do is like our page, and post and Tag 2 friends by 11.12.19. Good Luck to you all….. Enter here.  
A Winner will be picked at random and notified on our GBS Facebook page on 11.12.19.

Something a little different to a Zero, that we prepared & presented to IVA…

…..Please note that the GBS Factory and Kit Spares Shop will be closed on Friday 15th November, but will be open 10am-2pm on Saturday 16th November……

We offer many workshop services and one of them being the IVA Service which is a very popular service and we often have several Zero’s and other sports cars that are in the workshop for this service. Recently we had this electric Model T vehicle that is a replicas of the famous 1910 Model T Ford in the workshop, it has been with us for several months as there was a lot of work involved including a lot of fabrication, electrical and more to prepare it to the IVA standard. We were pleased that it has now passed and is fully registered and was collected last week by the owner. Before it went we went on a short road test and took a few photos to share with you all. Its being used for tours in the city of Cambridge.
We now have a full workshop again with several Zero’s being prepared and panelled for paint, as well as several nice spec Zero factory builds in progress. We are also pleased to welcome a new member of the team to GBS who will be based in the workshop, David has a strong background in Motorsport, engineering and like all the GBS team a strong passion for all Motorsport.
For more details on our IVA Service and to book your car in for any of our other workshop services please click here or call us now.

Busy time at the Classic Motor Show, the Zero's attracted a lot of attention…

Big thank you to everyone who visited our stand over the 3 days at this years Classic Motor Show at the NEC in Birmingham.  This show is one of our favourite shows of the year both the GBS & Kit Spares stand were busy all 3 days particularly the Friday and Saturday, it was great to see so many customers over the weekend as well as meet many new customers that we look forward to welcoming to the GBS factory very soon.

Our stand this year was in the same location as previous years and on display was a nice collection of Zero’s. We had our new high spec Gen 2 Zero demonstrator on display with a very nice customer Zero build, GBS Customer Tim Dunlop kindly let us have his Zero on display for the 3 days, along with another 2015 factory built Zero that we were selling on behalf of a customer. We are pleased to say that all the Zero’s attracted a lot of attention over the 3 days and we have lots of factory visits and test drives booked. It was nice that Tim also joined us on the Friday on the stand and was able to talk to customers too about his experience of building his Zero.

The kit Spares stand was also very busy with all the parts that we had on display attracting a lot of attention particularly the Ford 2.5 Duratec engine and the show racks which were displaying electrical and wiring products, the ATR Product Range, Exhaust components, Seat Belts & Interior products and much more….Visit our parts website www.kitspares.co.uk or showroom to see more products and details.

This was our last show of the year, but we still have one event left, which we are all very much looking forward to which is our GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event which is happening on Saturday 7th December at our GBS Factory, please click here for more details.

The GBS calendar for 2020 is already looking very busy with lots of new and exciting events scheduled in, the 2020 GBS calendar will be released later this year. We hope to be at more events, do more track days and much more! So make sure you keep visiting our event page.

Please note that the GBS Factory and Kit Spares Shop will be closed on Friday 15th November, but will be open 10am-2pm on Saturday 16th November.

Busy Workshop & another GBS Zero on the way to a Customer in USA…

A very nice spec Zero self build kit is now on the way to another customer in the USA after recently being collected from the factory. This wooden crate is packed full of some very nice parts and lots of upgrade parts including the new ATR Front Brake upgrade which will all arrive in the USA beginning of December.

Another Zero Race kit is now being packed and prepared that will also be going to the USA before Christmas along with all our UK and other European self build Kit collections that are scheduled in for the next couple of weeks, we are very busy and the Zero kit dispatch area is looking very busy with many Zero chassis’s stacking up.

Here is a short video that shows the Zero kit that’s now on its way to USA being prepared and collected. Click here to watch or why not visit our GBS YouTube Chanel to see more videos.

The GBS Workshop is also busy and last week the Workshop seemed to be over flowing with Zero chassis’s that were waiting to be panelled and prepared for paint. If you follow us on Instagram you can see more of what we are upto and behind the scenes of the GBS Workshop… Visit our GBS Workshop page to see what Workshop Services we offer and to get your sports car booked in.

Rolls-Royce Motor Club visit GBS for a Factory Tour….

We get a lot of enquires for Factory Tours for owners clubs and sports car clubs all over the country, earlier this year we were approached by Henry a GBS Customer who has a Zero Race to ask if we would do a factory tour for  a club he is a club secretary for which is the Rolls Royce Motor Club.

We offer a few Factory Tour dates throughout the year including weekends and evenings and on Saturday we were pleased to welcome 25 members from the Rolls-Royce Motor Club to the GBS factory for a  tour of our facilities with Richard and the GBS team. During their tour they saw a lot of behind the scenes of how our bespoke sports cars and products are produced. Thomas was in our Machine Shop demonstrating what he does on the CNC machines and how parts are designed and manufactured. Two members of the club have built a Zero sports car and it was great to see that one of them arrived in his Zero, despite the heavy rain on the day!

Feed back from the tour was very positive and enjoyed by all, one member emailed to say
GBS is an amazing company. Their engineering exceeded by far my expectations. They can potentially redefine the kit-car and definitely set new standards for the "sevens". Their parts are retrofitted in other "sevens".
It is one of the those stories "if what is available on the market is not good enough, DIY" And all these with very competitive prices. – Anestis G, Rolls-Royce employees Motor Club

The morning generally starts with tea/coffee and biscuits in the GBS Show room then onto the GBS Workshop, Design & Development Room, Machine & Engineering, Clean Room, Kit Spares Store and then back into the showroom for more refreshments, questions and often a test drive in one of our Zero demonstrators.
Our GBS Factory Tours are free but we ask for a kind donation to be made to our chosen charities which are Cancer Research UK and Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance.

We hope that the Rolls Royce Motor Club all enjoyed their visit to GBS and we would like to say thank you for your kind donations that you made on the day. Click here to see a short video that we created of when the Rolls Royce Motor Club members visited us.

For more details on our factory tours that we offer and to look to book one please click here or contact us.

Our next event at the GBS Factory is our Christmas Cars & Coffee event which is happening on Saturday 7th December. You can find more details about this on our events page.