Filming at GBS with Cadspec & MTDCNC.... CAM innovation is driven by Cadspec.

Last year we welcomed Cadspec and MTDCNC to GBS for a days filming…… We are now delighted to share with you the video that was created which you can see on the MTDCNC YouTube Chanel.

To enhance our manufacturing capabilities here at GBS, we recently invested in Autodesk software platforms via Cadspec. We wanted to design, manufacture as much as we can in-house and this gives us a lot more flexibility on the design, options and performance, which we can then pass on to the customer.

We manufacture a full range of components in house for the Zero and other sports cars, to see more about the products that we manufacture please visit www.atrproducts.co.uk and follow us on Instagram to see more.

All of the ATR Product range is available online from Kit Spares.
Visit www.kitspares.co.uk to see their full product range.

2021 Lockdown update…… You can’t visit us, but you can still take a tour of GBS.

Due to the latest government guideline and national restriction that is in place the GBS Showroom is closed until further notice for visitors so we are unable to invite you to see us. We are pleased to share with you a video that we created last year 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 watch it on our GBS YouTube Channel.

As a team we are staying positive and we are all working hard 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. We are also doing arranged collection of orders, but these must be confirmed via phone (01623 860990) or email with the Kit Spares team.

Delivery and collection of Self Build kits will continue as planned, for updates and details please contact us to discuss. 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 can offer. We are also offering Zoom meetings so if you wish to book a Zoom appointment to discuss the Zero please let us know and we can arrange a meeting.

As soon as test drives in our demonstrators will be available we will let you know, and we look forward to welcoming you back to GBS soon.
We would also like to thank you all for your co-operation at this unprecedented time. Stay safe and keep busy building and enjoying your Zeros we look forward to seeing you all again very soon!

Best wishes to you all from all the GBS Team.

Follow us on social media for more updates and on Instagram to see daily updates from the GBS Factory.

Different Cars, but same engine set up..... What engine would you have in your Zero?

Different cars but same engine set up….. We have had this Mk2 Escort with us in the workshop for a while and it has attracted a lot attention whilst its been with us, and many of you that have visited us will have seen it in the corner of the workshop. We have been doing a lot of design and development work with it, to meet the IVA requirements and we recently presented it to IVA and its now registered and ready for the road.

The all new Mk2 Escort is powered by a brand new Ford supplied 2.5L Duratec on our popular ATR Billet Throttle Bodies & Life ECU, which is the same set up as our Zero Demonstrator which offers great handling and performance. The Zero takes a full range of engine options and we are able to make bespoke changes to suit your engine choices.

For more details about the Zero options and engine options click here or if you would like to contact us to arrange a visit to see the Zero’s then please click here, we are currently doing appointment only visits.

Our parts shop Kit Spares supplies the Duratec engines and ATR Throttle Bodies as well as a full range of components to suit, as well as other engines. Click here to visit Kit Spares.

GBS & Kit Spares Christmas & New Year Opening times….

The GBS and Kit Spares team are all looking forward to a well earned break over the festive period, below are our Christmas opening times.

The GBS Factory and Kit Spares Shop will be closed on Thursday 24th December and we will be open again and back to normal opening hours on Monday 4th January 2021.

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 2020 may not be processed or dispatched until 4th / 5th January 2021. www.kitspares.co.uk

Don’t forget to follow us on our GBS, Kit Spares & ATR Products Social Media Channels over the Christmas holidays to see what we are up to!

We are still open for appointments for you to come and see the Zero. Contact us today to make your appointment.

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Below are just a few Christmas Gift Ideas for you and your Zero’s, visit our parts website or contact us for details.

It has been a very strange year for us all, but together we have got through it and still had some great times….

2020 has been a very strange year for us all and Covid-19 has put many of our plans that we all had on hold. But together as a team and with your support we have got through it and still had a successful year. Here are just a few of our favourites moments that we have captured during the year, next year we are hoping will be a much better year for us all and we look forward to enjoying the Zero’s with you all.

The Autosport International and Race Retro were the only two events that the Zero was seen at this year. We look forward to seeing you all next year at many events.

Release of the New GBS Zero Complete component build package - Which is now one of the popular self build options, click here for details.

We were pleased to welcome Will to join GBS as our new apprentice. Will is mainly based in our workshop but has spent time in other areas of GBS to get an understanding of what we do.

We had a great time working with the MTDCNC team filming for their 200th Swarf and Chip show which we featured in. We filmed at both the GBS Factory & Blyton Park Circuit - Find out how a British Sports Car is Made…. Click here to see the video.

Our Brand New Gen 2 Zero Demonstrator was released in March this year. Our Zero demonstrator is very high spec with a lot of optional extras and upgrades.

Customer Peer Moberg LHD Zero registered in Norway, the Zero is available in LHD & is sold worldwide. Several other Zero’s also registered in USA.

We were excited to be finalists in the Business Innovation category for this year’s Newark Business Awards. The awards evening is happening on Zoom, we will share with you how we get on later this month!

Autumn Run Out in the Zero’s, we are pleased that we had the opportunity to have a run out in the Zero’s safely. The weather was perfect and we enjoyed around 50 miles through lovely villages & country roads. We look forward to doing it again next year.

We enjoyed a day at Blyton Park Track with the Car Crowd for their launch event. We can’t wait to do more corporate track events and track days with the Zero’s.

Its been a busy year for Zero Factory Builds, with many more currently in production that will be completed and registered in 2021.

Its been a busy year for Zero kit collections and exports. We have been doing deliveries as well as collections to make things easier and safer. We have also seen Zero’s go to Canada, Sweden, France, USA.

Our final event of the year is always our GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event, unfortunately it will not be happening this year. BUT we are all very much looking forward to our 2021 GBS Cars & Coffee event that we plan to happen on Saturday 27th March at GBS.

Those that haven’t been able to visit us this year please see a link here to a factory tour video that we made earlier this year. We are still open for appointment only visits to come and see the Zero’s, please contact us to arrange your visit to see us.

Follow us on Instagram to see more photographs and behind the scenes of what we are up to.
Follow us @gbs_cars

Rare opportunity to grab yourself a one off deal on a Zero Self Build kit available....

24/02/2021 - Please note that this was sold very soon after this was released. But please contact us as we do have other opportunities available that might be of interest to you.

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We have a very rare opportunity for someone to grab themselves a one off deal on a Zero Self Build kit available…..

Early this year we were approached by a college who has one of our Zero Self Builds kits to see if we would be able to help them, as due to COVID-19, and a tightened budget and the main member of staff who was leading the project left the college, they decided that they do not have the resources and skilled teaching staff to continue with the project. So we agreed to help them find a new home for the car.  

We now have this Zero Self Build kit back with us and its available for sale, this is a very rare opportunity and could be the ideal project for someone looking to build a Zero GT, please see the Zero Spec below-

• Zero 2016/17 Gen1 Chassis (Ford kit spec)

• GT wide body option

• Lowered floor and powder coated chassis

• BRG GRP Set with Sport Front Wings (these are marked but would paint)

• BRG GRP Dash

• Alloy Panels (some have a few marks on but will paint)

• All wishbones and hubs etc bolt kit

This has been stored for a period time, but will clean up well and make someone a great car, we have all the other parts to complete the Zero build, which can be purchased through our parts website www.kitspares.co.uk as well as full build support by our team.  

Please contact us if you are interested, this is available for immediate collection / delivery. 

For more details on our Zero Self build options please click here and for details about our Educational builds please click here.

GBS & Kit Spares Second Lockdown update...

Dear all,

We hope you and your families are keeping well in this difficult time that we find ourselves in.

We appreciate your patience and continued support through this difficult and uncharted times. As an independent business we value your continued support now more than ever. We continue and have been doing all we can to support our suppliers & partners in this time and most importantly look after our customers and staff. As a team we are staying positive and using this as an opportunity making adjustments to how we work.  

Whilst our Kit Spares and GBS Showroom is now closed from 5th November until December, we are still doing appointment only visits, for you to come and look at the Zero. We have put appointment only visits in place so we can control the volume of people to ensure minimum contact, with social distancing rules maintained throughout your visit. Click here to make your appointment.

Parts orders can also still be placed on line on our website www.kitspares.co.uk or from our Kit Spares eBay Shop or please give us a call. We are also doing arranged collection of orders, but these must be confirmed via phone or email with the Kit Spares team.
Also, good news is that our workshop is open for necessary vehicle repair and servicing, IVA preparation etc. As a team we 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.

We are sad that we are not able to hold our annual Christmas Cars & Coffee (mince pie) event this year but hope that 2021 will be a better one for us all. We already have lots of exciting things planned that we hope we can all enjoy together including our first Cars & Coffee event of 2021 which we are planning to happen in March, click here for more details about that event. Keep visiting out Blog and social media channels for news and updates of what we are up to. Our social media links can be found at the bottom of our website.

Please keep sending us your photographs that you have of you out enjoying your Zero’s and build photos, we always like to see them and share them with others.

Stay Safe and we look forward to seeing you again soon! 

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

Nice Zero's with us in the GBS Workshop & Self build Kits collected....

Its has been a busy few weeks and months in the GBS Workshop with several Zero’s and other sports cars coming and going, that have been with us for various works including the IVA Test that we offer. These four Zero’s have all now been IVA tested and are now waiting for the registration to come through. The next two months are also looking very busy as we have more IVA tests booked for several Zero’s and other sports cars and also two very nice factory built Zero’s, which we will share more details with you soon.

Our IVA Service is now back up and running nicely after a slight delay with appointments being cancelled due to Covid-19. Please get in touch if you would like more details or to book your car in with us for the IVA Service that we offer.
We also offer Geometry Set Up & Corner Weights which can massively improve the handling of your sports cars, along with upgrades, Servicing, Maintenance, MOT, Track day Checks and Preparations, Repairs, Build Completions and much more. Click here to see more about the Workshop Services that we offer or contact us.

We have also been busy with Zero self build kit collections and deliveries, last month we were pleased to welcome Peter Baker to GBS to collect his Zero Mazda Self Build.

We know have several other Zero Self Builds awaiting collection, and several that are currently at our paint shop. We look forward to sharing those with you once they are back with us in the workshop., to see more behind the scenes of what we are up to follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, all our social media links can be found at the bottom of our website.

We are still doing appointment only visits to see the Zero, so please get in touch and we can confirm your visit. We look forward to welcoming you to GBS.

Still currently experiencing technical problems with our phone line….

We apologise if you have not been able to contact us this week over the phone. We have had a fault with our phone line and it is still not fixed.
However in the meantime please email us and we will reply as soon as we can or please call our temporary GBS Mobile on 07923 222276 and we can deal with your enquiry. We are still open and doing appointment only visits, so please email or call our mobile to book your visit to see the Zero. We look forward to welcoming you to GBS!

Orders can still be placed from Kit Spares online and from our Kit Spares eBay Shop as well as over the phone on the temporary GBS Mobile on 07923 222276. Please call and we will put you through to the Kit Spares department or please email Kit Spares with your enquiry and we will get back to you asap.

Thank you for your patience and we apologise for any inconvenience.
We look forward to speaking to you soon.

Best wishes from the GBS Team.

NEW DATE RELEASED - GBS Cars & Coffee (& Cake) Event 2021.....

We are excited to be planning our first GBS Cars of Coffee event of 2021.
The first Cars & Coffee event of 2021 is happening on Saturday 27th March.... As many of you know everyone at GBS has a strong passion for cars and anything to do with motorsport and we love our Cars & Coffee events and Track Days etc. But sadly, this year we have not been able to host and exhibit at any events due to Covid-19.

So we thought we would plan for 2021 and have something for us to look forward too, when hopefully the Covid-19 situation will be better and things are back to more normality. We will confirm next year that this event is safe to happen, but we hope you will be able to join us, we can’t wait to see you all and welcome you back!
 
The GBS Cars & Coffee event at GBS was created in 2016 and has since been a massive success & we have continued to hold the event again for several years now. Our Cars & Coffee ( & Cake) events often see our car park overflowing with many different sports cars, the event is also becoming renowned for its home made cakes!

Its an event that we have created that gives the chance for you all to have a ride out in your sports cars / meeting point and enjoy a coffee (plus biscuits/ cake of course) and chat about your cars, all are welcome to join us in any car (modern or classic including bikes).

Help us make Saturday 27th March the best GBS Cars & Coffee event yet & raise more money for two great charities…. We will be collecting for the Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance & Cancer Research.

We will announce more details next year, and will do all we can to make sure the event can go ahead safely, all the GBS team look forward to seeing you all.

Please follow our event page for more details, as we will announce any updates on there as well as the event on our GBS Facebook page, please see link button below.

We are currently still doing appointment only visits to see the Zero, so please contact us if you wish to arrange a visit.
The Kit Spares Shop and Show Room is open and orders can still be placed in store or online on our website www.kitspares.co.uk or please give us a call (01623 860990) to place your orders.

Which one would you have? So many options with the Zero's......

The options on the Zero’s are endless and each Zero that you see is different in many ways. We recently had three stunning factory built Zero’s with us in the workshop and took the opportunity to photograph them together. Each Zero is tailor built to each customer’s specification with your choice of appearance trim and accessories making each car truly unique to its owner.

The Red Zero is our demonstrator and the other two are now both registered and on the road being enjoyed by their new owners. These Zero’s are all very different to each other, and have many areas of personalisation from the wheels and tyres to the engine set up. Click here for more details about the features that are available on the Zero’s.
We are open for visits (Appointment only) so please contact us today to arrange your visit to see the Zero.

Book your appointment to come and see the Zero......

Since the 1st June this year we were pleased to be able to open back up for appointment only visits for you to come and look at the Zero. Which has been working really well and it has been great to see so many of you. We have put appointment only visits in place so we can control the volume of people to ensure minimum contact. With social distancing rules maintained throughout your visit.

We appreciate your patience and continued support through this difficult time. Small and independent businesses value your continued support now more than ever. We continue and will certainly be doing all we can to support our suppliers & partners in this time and most importantly look after our customers and staff. Please call or email us to arrange your visit. You can also Click here to visit our GBS YouTube Channel where you can see a full factory tour of GBS.

Whilst our Kit Spares Showroom and shop is currently open orders can still be placed on line on our website www.kitspares.co.uk or please give us a call (01623 860990) to place your order. We are also doing arranged collections for parts too.

Busy workshop.... See more video's on our workshop YouTube Channel...

Its great to see our GBS Workshop YouTube channel getting more followers each week, there are now several video’s on there. Including the most recent one which is a talk through the Zetec Lightened Flywheel Package along with several other video’s that cover products that we stock through our parts shop Kit Spares. Click here to see more video’s on our workshop YouTube channel and click here to visit our main GBS YouTube Channel.

We are able to offer a full range of workshop services for your GBS Sports Car and also other cars, please click here for more details about the workshop services that we offer.

Cadspec & MTD visit us to discuss exciting new joint projects….

As many of you know we have a full in-house design, development, and manufacturing facilities including our CNC  machines and we have recently moved onto a new software and are now pleased to be using feature cam software from Autodesk, which is very impressive and working well and helping us develop our design and product range.

Last week it was great to welcome Michael from Cadspec to GBS to come and have a look at how we are getting on with our new feature cam software from Autodesk and to see what we are up to and also to discuss a joint project that we are going to be doing. This week we also welcomed Giovanni and Joe from MTD to take a look around GBS and shared with them what we are doing, they also enjoyed a test drive in our demonstrator in which they were very impressed with.

We have lots of exciting manufacturing and engineering is underway along with some other very exciting things that we are planning together, we look forward to sharing more with you soon.

Zero Self Build Collections and Upgrades…..

Its been a busy start to the month for us with Zero self build kit collections, and the workshop has been busy too with lots of very nice spec Zero’s with us for various works.

On Saturday it was nice welcome Ben Whitrow and his family back to GBS, as they came to collect their Mazda Zero race self build. Ben and his family visited us earlier this year on Ben’s 14th Birthday to place their order and finalise the spec of Ben’s Zero Build which was his birthday present. Ben has the Mazda donor car already and is very excited to start his Zero Mazda Build, which he very much looks forward to driving in a few years when he is 17. We look forward to following Ben’s build and seeing it progress and sharing with you all.

Nice to have this customer’s Zero with us last week that he has recently bought and has been enjoying and wanted a few upgrades doing to it. It was with us for a few days for the ATR Product Front Brake Upgrade Kit fitting which is now a very popular upgrade for the Zero’s. Also new seats, gauges and more have been ordered for it so it will be coming back soon for more upgrades. We are pleased to also have several IVA appointments booked for this month, so we look forward to seeing more Zero’s on the road very soon.

We are excited to be finalist in the Newark Business Awards....

We are excited to be finalists in the Business Innovation category for this year’s Newark Business Awards. Last month the finalists in the ten categories for the Newark Business Awards were revealed and we were delighted to be selected as one of the finalist for the Business Innovation Category. Next month the judges will be interviewing the team and then the decision of the overall winners for each category will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in October at Newark Showground. More details can be found here or why not follow us on Twitter to see more updates over the next few months about this @GBSCars.

GBS Team enjoy an evening at Cadwell Park with the Zero....

Earlier this week our Zero Mazda demonstrator was busy being prepared for a track day. The GBS Team enjoyed an evening at Cadwell Park with the Zero, its been a busy few months for all the team and it was nice to have an afternoon / evening all together enjoying the Zero and other cars out on the track.

We had two GBS track days booked earlier this year at Blyton Park and Donington Park but due to Covid-19 they were both cancelled. Its great that the circuits are now re open and hopefully spectators will be allowed back soon. We look forward to being back out on the track with you all in your Zero’s hopefully later this year. Keep a look out on our events page and social media which is all updated regularly.

GBS Zero looking good in USA & another on the way soon….

GBS customer Dan Kincade in the USA has his Zero on the road for a while now and has made some modifications and improvements to his Zero. We made him some custom 42mm tubes to give more performance for his new high spec Mazda engine, Dan will be taking it to the Dyno soon to see how it performs. Dan also purchased the new adjustable rear wishbones for the Mazda and has them all fitted and working now. Dan says  “Between the accelerator, rear arms and headers I feel that my car has been transformed to the next level. I look forward to continuing to up rate my Zero with more GBS / ATR components.”

We have another Zero that has recently been panelled that will soon be off to paint that is going to become one of our new Zero demonstrator cars in the USA. We are currently just deciding on the paint scheme for it, we will share more on that over the next few weeks with you.

The GBS Workshop has some nice Zero’s that are currently being built, if you follow us on Instagram @gbs-cars then you will see more updates on them on there. We also have several Zero’s that have been with us for our IVA Service that we offer, and they are all now ready and waiting for the test dates to be confirmed. Please get in touch for more details about the IVA Service that we offer and other workshop services or to look to get your car booked in.

At this difficult time we are in, it’s been nice to see that a lot of you have been busy in the garage working on your Zero builds and doing upgrades and jobs to them. If you have any photographs, send them in to us we would love to see them and share them with others. Our parts shop Kit Spares online shop is still open along with our Kit Spares eBay Shop or call us to place your order. Deliveries are still being sent out on next day deliveries via parcel force and we are not having to many delays.

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.

Our NEW Gen 2 Zero Demonstrator featured in this months CKC Magazine….

We always look forward to receiving our copy of CKC Magazine and it was nice to see that our new Zero demonstrator was featured in the magazine and on the front cover too. Adam from CKC Magazine visited us last month to view and test drive our new Zero demonstrator. Adam was very impressed “ It may not look that different to any GBS Zero that’s gone before, but the new Gen 2 has been through a thorough process of evolution” We are lucky to have a wide open A- Road close to the factory with well sighted corners so we can drive with confidence, so Adam was able to enjoy his test drive and put the demonstrator through its paces to see how it handled. Our new demonstrator is a very nice high spec car and has a lot of optional extras and upgrades on it. “There are thousands of changes – not that you would know just by looking” you can see and read more in the magazine which is out now and available to purchase online delivered directly to your door.

If you have any questions about the Zero self-build or factory build options, please get in touch we would love to hear from you. We look forward to welcoming you all back to the factory to see and have a test drive in our demonstrator very soon. Click here to get in touch.

In our last Blog post we gave you the chance to have a go at colouring in a Zero and add a creative background. It was great to see that many children have been enjoying colouring the Zero…. Here is 7 year old Amelia and 3 year old Lottie with their finished pieces that they have shared with us, they 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!