GBS & Kit Spares Christmas Opening times & Gift Ideas….

All of 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 from Friday 23rd December and we will be open again and back to normal opening hours on Tuesday 3rd January 2023.

You can still place your orders online from our parts website Kit Spares over the Christmas break, but please note any orders placed on or after 23rd December 2022 may not be processed or dispatched until 3rd / 4th January 2023. www.kitspares.co.uk Don’t forget to follow us on our GBS, Kit Spares & ATR Products Social Media Channels and over the Christmas holidays to see what we are up to!

Its also our GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event this Saturday (3rd December) at GBS, we hope you can all join us. More details can be found on our event page the Kit Spares Shop will also be open on the day and also Sealy Tools will be joining us, if you need any parts to keep you busy over the Christmas holidays or are looking for some Christmas presents.

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

A Kit Spares Gift Voucher could make the perfect gift….

Behind the scenes Factory Tour at GBS..... See what we are upto.....

We are always busy here at GBS and we often have some very interesting cars with us in the workshop and are involved in some very interesting projects. With full in-house design, development, manufacturing and testing we manage projects through the full product life cycle from concept to final production. Our capabilities range from less complicated prototype fabrication to complex composite structures. 

At GBS our philosophy remains to design and manufacture critical and custom components in-house. This ensures the highest quality, control of costs and lead times. For those parts we do not manufacture and wherever possible we select local sources to streamline the management of our supply chain and our delivery commitments. Click below to see a short video behind the scenes of what we are upto at GBS.
We have created a short video that shows Behind the Scenes of what we are upto. This short video shows an insight into the GBS Showroom and Kit Spares Shop, Kit Spares Stores, Engineering, Clean & Assembly Room, Design Room, Fabrication, Workshop, Composite and bodywork and an overview of the Zero.

GBS ENGINEERING

ATR PRODUCT RANGE

GBS WORKSHOP

GBS DESIGN ROOM

GBS FABRICATION

GBS COMPOSITES

THANK YOU for your generous donations at our GBS events, we have now raised over £2,000 for our charities....

At our GBS events we hold we always offer free refreshments on the day and always ask for donations to help our chosen charities which are the Cancer Research and The Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance.

We would like to say a big thank you to you all for your generous donations you have made to our charities on the day. We were delighted to have raised a total of £1,063.28 for The Cancer Research Charity and £1,244.79 for The Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance since we started collecting for them at our GBS Events several years ago, which is fantastic and we thank you all for your generous donations.

Our last GBS Cars & Coffee event of the year will be taking place in a few weeks on Saturday 3rd December and we hope you can all join us and enjoy some mince pies with us. We will be announcing the 2023 GBS Cars & Coffee dates very soon.

Start your Christmas shopping early - Kit Spares Christmas Gift Ideas.....

Below are just a few Christmas Gift Ideas for you and your Zero’s, visit our parts website Kit Spares or contact us for details. Or why not come and visit our Showroom & Shop.

The Kit Spares Shop will also be open on Saturday 3rd December at our Christmas Cars & Coffee event.

A Kit Spares Gift Voucher could make the perfect gift….

GBS 4wd high performance EV with integrated carbon structure.....

The whole GBS Team is proud to share with you an exciting new project which we have been working on behind the scenes for the past few years which has recently come to a point where we can share and show case what we have been creating.

Along with two other partners we were involved in this project to create an all-new Low Carbon super Car, this project focused on a zero emission, high performance super car for low volume production.

The project has been supported by innovative UK whose involvement has been a key part in GBS journey towards EV zero emissions, collaborative R&D nature of the project has allowed GBS as a smaller niche vehicle manufacture to push the boundaries of technology and design, whilst increasing the companies skills and engineering expertise in low carbon technologies giving accelerated progress of our low carbon technologies toward volume production product.

This project pulls together a number previous R&D programs, and development into one exciting concept car, that was designed to provide a concept/engineering platform for future projects with leading sports car performance and establish a superior position of zero emission vehicles in the sports car market.

It featured a four-wheel drive electric system with 220KW and 980Nm per motor fitted to each corner giving in excess of 1,100Hp and a weight of 1100Kg, fitted into a lightweight carbon fibre monocoque chassis, giving true super car performance with zero emissions.

GBS were responsible for the overall vehicle design and packaging and the design and manufacture including the new lightweight chassis using our innovative low-cost carbon fibre processing technology that we have developed inhouse. We also developed the vehicle styling, interior and ancillary system for the prototype.

The project has integrated four Yasa P750 motors with torque vectoring for increase control and performance, and we have worked closely with Yasa on the development and use of their own Yasa motor controllers, the lithium-ion Batteries are a dual chemistry set up with pouch cells from A123 giving the car a combined 60Kw hours and the ability for rapid charging and extremely high output from the high voltage system.

Going forward we are now looking for investment and partners to bring the car to market as a British Super car offering.

Supported by Innovate UK

Let us work with you to design the bespoke paint design and graphics for your Zero.

Let us work with you to design the bespoke paint design and graphics for your Zero.
Paint is now fast becoming a popular option and is a service that we offer, we are able to colour match and design your cars paint effect with you from start to finish. The paint option is available on both Zero Self Builds and Factory Builds. Paint can take around 2 to 3 weeks, depending on the design and paint colour. Once your car is with us and the design is confirmed we will be able to give you a more accurate time scale of how long it will be. The other option which is also bespoke to you, is to transform your Zero with vehicle graphics.
Now your Zero is painted you can make it even more stylish with bespoke vehicle graphics which can be truly individual to you. Eye catching graphics can transform your Zero and make it stand out from the crowd even more, we are pleased to work with a local family run design and graphic company and together we are able to offer a bespoke design service for your Zero. You can use your own design or we are able to work with you to get the perfect design.

Below are some recent Zeros that have been painted to give you an idea of what you can have for your Zero. Follow us on Instagram to see more updates of what we are up to and of some other cars that we have painted. Follow us on Instagram here.

Full custom Paint & Vehicle Graphics…

GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee is happening on Saturday 3rd December....

The next event for the GBS Team is happening this weekend (11th-13th November) which is the Classic Motor Show at the NEC in Birmingham, see more details on our event page. Follow us on Instagram @gbs_cars to see photos live from the event. 

GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event is confirmed and the GBS Team would like to invite you all to the GBS Factory on Saturday 3rd December for Tea/Coffee and Mince Pies & Biscuits to say Happy Christmas and Thank You for all your support this year.

The GBS showroom will be open on the day as well as the Kit Spares Shop, we hope you can come and join us!  Everyone is welcome, why not wrap up warm and come in your Zero and other sports cars and help us raise more money for two great charities…. We will be collecting for the Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance & Cancer Research.

Please note that the the Kit Spares shop and showroom ( www.kitspares.co.uk ) will be open on the day. Please feel free to call us or email and pre order ready to collect on the day to avoid any delays.
All the GBS team look forward to seeing you all. Below is just one car that we know will be joining us on the day! What car will you be joining us in?

Father & Son enjoying their Zero out on the track & more Zeros collected.....

We always like to receive photographs from customers out enjoying their Zeros, we recently received these photographs from father and son Jerry and Matt Haller out enjoying their Zero out on the track at Castle Combe.

January 2019 was the start of Jerry and Matts Zero build when they first visited our GBS stand at the Autosport’s Show at the NEC in Birmingham which was where they first saw the Zero’s on display on our stand. They then came to see us at the factory and enjoyed a factory tour, meeting all the team, seeing all the behind the scenes of what we do….. They went away with plenty of ideas and options, as well as both enjoying a test drive in our Zero demonstrator. A few weeks after their visit we got a email to say they have decided on their Zero spec and were ready to place their order, so they came up to the factory one Saturday and confirmed the spec and options of their kit and payed the deposit. They have been enjoying their Zero on road since the beginning of 2021 and have now enjoyed several road trips and track days in it.

The Zero self build is an ideal project for a Father and Son to enjoy together, and also enjoy together once its on the road on both the road and track.

We have lots of Zero self build kits currently being prepared for collection over the few weeks as well as some that are soon to be exported. We also received another nice Zero back from the paint shop last week, that we shared on our social media channels so make sure you are following us!

Busy GBS Cars & Coffee event on Saturday with Sealey Tools.......

Thank you to everyone who joined us last Saturday (17th September) at GBS for our third Cars and Coffee event of 2022……. We had another fantastic day with great weather, cars and cake, a car park full of so many different sports cars. We would like to say a big THANK YOU to you all for joining us and helping us make it another great event and enjoyable day, its always nice to see so many Zero’s together in the car park along with a wide variety of other sports cars.

The GBS and Kit Spares show room was very busy with people and the Kit Spares   Shop was also very busy with sales and enquires and lots of people took advantage of the discount we were offering on the Sealey Tool range for the day. As usual the cakes attracted a lot of attention and certainly went down well with not many left along with the unlimited supply of tea and coffee. We would like to thank Sealey Tools for supporting our event, and for providing a Sealey Tool Kit as prize, the lucky winner picked at random was Steve Bower from the USA the Tool Case will be sent to you with your Zero Kit later this year. The GBS Workshop was also open on the day for viewing, to see more about the workshop services we offer click here.

Another great thing about our GBS Cars & Coffee events that we love, is that we are able to raise money for our 2 chosen charities which are the Cancer Research UK and The Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance, we all feel and hope you agree that The Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance is a fantastic service and has helped & will continue to help many people, as well as the Cancer Research UK that is again a fantastic charity that makes a big difference to so many people and their families. We will let you know soon how much money we have raised.
Follow GBS on Facebook and Instagram to see more photographs from the day.

The next GBS Cars & Coffee date will be announced very soon…..

GBS Cars & Coffee this weekend - Event update

Our GBS Cars & Coffee event this Saturday (17th September) with Sealey Tools will still be going ahead as planned and we look forward to welcoming you all to GBS, having a car park full of sports cars and raising money for our chosen charities Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance & Cancer Research. Please visit our event page for more details.

Following the recent announcement of the State Funeral for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Monday 19th September, as a mark of respect, we have taken the decision to close GBS & Kit Spares on this day. We will reopen as normal on Tuesday 20th September.

A truly remarkable woman. Thank you for your extraordinary service.​ Our thoughts are with the Royal Family and we send our deepest condolences to them at this sad time.

Royal Mail Strike - Possible delay with Kit Spares orders.....

You may be aware that Royal Mail / Parcel Force workers will strike for two days this week. Strikes are planned on the following dates: 8th September & 9th September. Royal Mail are one of the main couriers that we use and while we are working closely with Royal Mail to minimise the impact this action will have on our customers, we do expect to experience some delays. www.kitspares.co.uk

Alternatively come and visit our showroom & shop we are open Monday to Friday and occasional Saturdays.

We hold a full range of stock for the GBS Zeros and other sports cars, which is currently just under 3000 items and is growing every day. If you can't find what you are after on our website its always worth giving us a call and one of our team can advise you hopefully meet your requirements, if we don't stock it we will do our best to get it!

The Kit Spares Shop will be open at the GBS Cars & Coffee event with Sealey Tools on Saturday 17th September at GBS.

Stocking Sealey Tools & what tools are required for your Zero to be assembled.....

We are pleased to have partnered up with Sealey Tools are a now stocking a range of their tools and products on our parts website - www.kitspares.co.uk or please contact the Kit Spares / GBS Team with the Sealey product code then we can get you a price for the item(s).

We recommend the 144pc tool kit that has a comprehensive range of premier hand tools that are ideal to have at hand when building your Zero is now available from our Kit Spares website.

Sealey Tools will also be with us at our GBS Cars & Coffee event next month, see more details here about this event - GBS Cars & Coffee Event.

The Zero has been designed so that it can be assembled with simple tools, that you most likely already have. If you do not, it may be possible to hire what you need from tool shops. If you decide to purchase them, bear in mind that it is not necessary to have professional grade tools as the workload for them is very small.

University of Nottingham Student placement comes to an end....

We are pleased to have had Hugo Stephens with us here at GBS for several months on his university placement which came to an end last week. Hugo was studying MEng Mechanical Engineering at The University of Nottingham and was also the Mechanical Lead for the Solar Electric Car being built by the University's Racing Team. With his strong background in CAD/CAM, Hugo has been busy working with the GBS team to create the first Build Manual for the GBS Zero. The manual is now well underway and not too far of completion, which we aim to complete and release later this year. By being able to offer a complete manual, we are hoping it will make the decision to tackle your own Component Build less daunting, as this is something we have heard from some of our customers could be improved.

Hugo is now taking a short break before starting a new graduate job in Motorsport in a few weeks. We would like to thank Hugo for all his hard work whilst he has been with us, and we wish him well in his new graduate job which is in Motorsport and look forward to keeping in touch with him.  We are continuing to work with the University of Nottingham and looking at offering other University of Nottingham students a Postgraduate placement with us later this year. Read more about Hugo and his placement in an earlier news post here - Click here.

Busy with GBS Factory Tours ..... Jaguar Enthusiast Group from Norfolk visit GBS.

We have done many factory tours this year already here at GBS to see how our bespoke sports cars and products are designed and manufactured and have many more booked throughout the year. On Saturday we welcomed West Norfolk Jaguar group to GBS for a factory tour.

Everyone arrived in their Jaguar sports cars and to have them all parked together outside the factory for photographs. The tour was led by Richard and John which covered the workshop, design room, clean assembly room, engineering machine shop, Zero build bays , parts and spares store and shop and then back to the showroom where we finish.

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. Our tours last from anywhere between one and half hours to two hours and would end with a question-and-answer session. A typical GBS Factory Tour usually takes place on a Saturday morning but a weekday & Evening tour can take place on request if needed. We are able to accommodate groups of up to 20 people but more can be arranged. Please click here for more details about the GBS Factory Tours that we offer or contact us.

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GBS Cars & Coffee with Sealey Tools is happening at GBS on
Saturday 17th September.

Great weekend at Newark Kit Car Show with the Zeros…..

At the weekend (23rd & 24th July) some of the GBS Team were at the Newark Showground for this years Newark Kit Car Show . We had a range of Zeros on display and would like to thank GBS Customers Matt Oakley and James Burge for allowing us have their Zeros on display over the weekend along with Witham Motorsport who let us display the Motul Zero Edition over the weekend. The Motul Zero will also be featured in next months Complete Kit Car Magazine.

As well as the Zeros on display, we also had a sample range of products from Kit Spares and ATR Products on display. Visit our parts website www.kitspares.co.uk to see our full product range, including our dedicated ATR Products page or come and visit our Kit Spare shop. Over the weekend we had a GBS Zero Owners Club area allocated outside for you all to park and be together where is was great to see so many Zeros together.

Matthew Oakley and Son Fraser with their Zero Mazda Build that was on display.

Jim Burge with his Zero Ultimate Zero Self Assembly build that was on display.

The GBS Zero Owners Club area, nice to see so many Zeros together on Saturday.

Matt and Frasers Zero Build Spec: Zero Mazda Gen1 Customer Build / 2003 Mk2.5 Mazda MX5 Donor / Sports Chassis with lowered floor / Body painted Mazda Soul Red Crystal / Engine - Mazda 1.8VVT with ATR Throttle Bodies & lightened flywheel / mapped to 180bhp / 5 Speed manual gearbox mated to 4.1:1 Torsen LSD / ATR Adjustable Suspension / GBS Adjustable rear control arms and camber kit / Mazda MX5 ‘big brakes’ Front & Rear / GBS seats / Black on Black Smiths Gauges / MOMO Steering Wheel with quick release / DRL Style Headlights.

Jim Burge Zero Build Spec: Zero Ultimate Self Assembly Customer Build Sport Chassis / Painted Ford Focus RS Blue / 2.5 Duratec Engine Power 200 - 350 bhp / 5 Speed manual gearbox / Carbon Dash with Smiths Gauges / Carbon Fibre Finishing panels / DRL Style Headlights / ATR Adjustable Suspension / ATR Brakes Front: ATR 300mm floating discs 4 pot caliper Rear: Disc & Caliper Standard.

Click here to read more about the Zero Motul Edition and to watch a video about the special build.

We would like to thank you all for visiting our stand over the weekend and we now look forward to a busy few weeks of factory visits and test drives. Please click here to see more details about the other shows and events that we are doing later this year as well as events that we are not exhibiting at but might be of interest to you. Or click here to contact us to arrange your visit to see us!

GBS Cars & Coffee with Sealey Tools is happening at GBS on
Saturday 17th September.

Upgrades for your Zero..... Current Zero upgrades we offer....

MAKE YOUR ZERO YOUR VERY OWN

Every Zero you see is different and there are many options and upgrades to consider on both Zero self builds and factory builds. We have a big selection of upgrades and options that are available for the Zero’s and also suitable for other sport cars, a lot of which are designed and manufactured in house by the GBS Team. Our ATR Throttle Bodies, Brake Upgrade, Suspension are just some of the most popular upgrades that we design, manufacture and assemble. We are also able to offer anodising in other colours to suit your request.

Below are just a few of the favourites that are available from our parts website Kit Spares - www.kitpspares.co.uk - The new Sparco Wheels, Brake, Indicator Stalks, LED Style Headlights, Carbon Fibre Bodywork, Rear Diffuser, Roll Cage, Interior Pocket, Engine dress kit, ATR Suspension are all available from our parts shop Kit Spares and can be seen on our Zero demonstrator when you visit us.

GBS Cars & Coffee with Sealey Tools is happening on Saturday 17th September at GBS....

We are excited to share with you all that we have confirmed the date for the next GBS Cars & Coffee event of 2022, which is proudly supported by Sealey Tools and will be taking place on Saturday 17th September at GBS from 10am-2pm.

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. Our Cars & Coffee ( & Cake) events often sees 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 17th September 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. The Kit Spares shop and showroom ( www.kitspares.co.uk ) will be open on the day. Please feel free to call us or email and pre order ready to collect on the day to avoid any delays.

All the GBS and Sealey team look forward to seeing you and welcoming you to GBS on Saturday 17th September. There will also be the chance to purchase Sealey products at a discounted price as well as the chance to WIN some Sealey Tools.

Sealey Tools was founded in 1978, Sealey is now known nationally and internationally as a leading brand of professional tools and workshop equipment. We are proud to now be stocking a range of Sealey products that can soon be seen on our Kit Spares parts website and in our shop. On the day at our Cars & Coffee event we will be offering a discount on all products, details on this will be announced nearer the time.
Contact us for any Sealey products that you are after and we will be able to supply you.

ALL CARS ARE WELCOME TO JOIN US……

THANK YOU for your generous donations at our GBS Cars & Coffee events, we have now raised over £1,000 for The Cancer Research.

Our second GBS Cars & Coffee event of 2022 happened last month at the GBS Factory that was sponsored by Witham Motorsport & Motul. It was a fantastic day and nice to see so many people join us.

We offered free refreshments on the day and always ask for donations to help our chosen charities which are the Cancer Research and The Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance.

We would like to say thank you to you all for your generous donations to our charities on the day. We were delighted to have raised £105.12 for Cancer Research and The Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance donations will be counted later in the year when they next visit.
The Cancer Research Charity got in touch to let us know that we have now raised a total of £1,063.28 since we started collecting for them at our GBS Events, which is fantastic and we thank you all for your generous donations.
THANK YOU to you all for joining us at our events, and hope you enjoyed the events as much as we do, we will be announcing the next GBS Cars & Coffee date and sponsor next week.
If you were unable to make the last event, then you can see a short video we made of the day on our GBS YouTube Chanel.

Another Zero on the road this Summer & more Zero Self Build Kits collected......

Its been a busy few weeks with Zero Self build Kit collections and we have several that are currently being prepared for export to the USA and others that are panelled and waiting to go to paint. We look forward to sharing with you over the next few weeks the Zeros that are coming back from paint, if you follow us on Instagram we will share a little preview of them on there first. Click here to follow us on Instagram @gbs_cars
Last week we welcomed GBS Customer Dan Wilding back to GBS to collect his Zero Mazda Self Build Kit, we look forward to following Dan’s Zero build as it progresses. Also last week GBS Customer Phil Roberts came to collect his Zero that earlier this month passed its IVA Test. Phil ordered his Zero Self build kit and started the build in 2019 and is now looking forward to getting it registered and enjoying it on the road this summer. Phil’s Zero is powered by the Ford 2.5 Duratec engine on the ATR Throttle Bodies, with some very nice optional extras and upgrades like the ATR Suspension, Heated GBS Seats and more. Phil always joins us at our GBS Cars & Coffee events and now looks forward to joining us at the next one in his very own Zero. We will soon be announcing the next Cars & Coffee date, so keep checking our GBS event page.

Work Experience at GBS...... Student enjoys a few days working alongside the GBS Team

Last week we welcomed 17 year old Ethan Skinner to GBS for three days work experience with us, Ethan is a Year 12 Student studying A Levels at William Farr Comprehensive School in Lincolnshire. With a  passion for all things motorsport Ethan approached us for any work experience opportunities, where we were able to offer him 3 days here at GBS. During the 3 days he spent time with the GBS Team in different departments to gain an understanding of what we do and to have an insight into as many aspects of motorsport as possible to help see what he would like to develop and pursue as a possible future career.
We also have Hugo Stephens with us who is currently studying MEng Mechanical Engineering at The University of Nottingham who’s with us for a placement, Hugo is working with the Design and Engineering team to create the first Build Manual for the GBS Zero, you can read more about this story here.

We are a very popular choice with Schools and Colleges throughout the country for work experience placements. We try to accommodate students for work experience when ever possible weather it be for a week or just a day. Places are limited but we do our best to offer what we can. Please click here to see what job opportunities, work experience opportunities we currently have available.

“As a company we are willing to help and assist you where we can as the next generation of car builders are the future to the British motor industry.”— Richard Hall, Director - Great British Sports Cars Ltd

Current Job Vacancies we have available at GBS

MIG-TIG Welder / Fabricator.
&
GRP (Fibre Glass) Laminator & Fabricator.