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.

Open for appointment only visits to come & see the Zero....

As you may already know and have heard, car showrooms are allowed to open again from 1st June 2020.  We are pleased to be opening up for appointment only visits from Monday 1st June, for you to come and look at the Zero.

Please call or email us to arrange your visit. 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.

Whilst our Kit Spares Showroom is currently still closed, 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 now doing arranged collections.
Orders are still being processed and dispatched every day and our next day delivery service is still available, but we ask you to please be aware there could be a slight delay this is due to the carrier but full tracking details will be issued.

We're looking forward to seeing you again soon! 

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

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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.

Please also follow us on Instagram to see more updates from the GBS Factory.

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!

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.

Zero’s out on the Race Track at Blyton Park for private event…..

If you follow us on Instagram ( @gbs_cars ) you may have seen a few behind the scenes photographs of several Zero’s at Blyton Park earlier this month…. We organised a corporate day and hired the Blyton Park race circuit for exclusive use for the Zero’s. This was in conjunction with TheCarCrowd who are building the UK’s first crowd funding platform for classic cars, see more details about TheCarCrowd here. This was the launch event for TheCarCrowd and it’s was also the release of our new Zero demonstrator that people could experience on the day. TheCarCrowd guests enjoyed passenger laps with the GBS team in our new Zero demonstrator and Zero Race car then they were given the opportunity to drive themselves in our Zero Mazda demonstrator.
We were also joined by many guests throughout the day including Sam Pinkham who is the early breakfast presenter for Virgin Radio UK, our local MP Mark Spencer who all enjoyed their experience out on the track in the Zero’s. At the end of the day we had a drag race between Electric v Petrol….. Which do you think would WIN a drag race between a Tesla Model S and our GBS Zero? We will share the results and video with you all soon!

It was a great day, enjoyed by all and we look forward to hosting more days like this in the future. We would also like to thank Aireshelta Products for providing the tent shelter for the day and Delilah Fine Foods in Nottingham for providing the food for us all to enjoy.

GBS Track Day update: We currently have two GBS Track Days booked, at Blyton Park on Saturday 18th April and at Donignton Park on Friday 15th May. Both Track Days are via javelin Track Days and we are sorry to say that our Track Day at Blyton Park on Saturday 18th April is cancelled, Javelin Track Days events are now all suspended until 30th April 2020. If any of you have booked on already, please visit our event page with a link to details and options that are available to you. We will keep you updated about our GBS Track Day at Donnington Park in May and other events that we have planned for this year.

We are doing all we can to support our suppliers & partners in this time and most importantly look after our customers and staff. We very much appreciate your patience and continued support in these turbulent times. Thank you.

GBS Cars & Coffee event update: Coronavirus

We have had several emails, phone calls regarding the happening our GBS Cars & Coffee that we have planned to take this Saturday (21st March) at the GBS Factory, so we would like to update you with our decision.

19/03/2020 - 10.00am: GBS Cars & Coffee event this Saturday (21st March) update -
This morning the GBS Team have made the decision to all be at the Factory on Saturday (21st March) from 10am - 2pm should you wish to still join us. We are changing the format in line with government advice, but we do ask that if anyone has any symptoms of the virus or are vulnerable, we ask you not to attend.

We appreciate your patience and continued support in these turbulent times.
Small and independent businesses value your continued support now more than ever.
We will certainly be doing all we can to support our suppliers & partners in this time and most importantly look after our customers and staff.

Our parts shop Kit Spares will be open, but we ask if possible please call (telephone 01623 860990) before the day to place your order then we can prepare it ready for you to just collect on the day. You can still purchase on the day if you wish, but we are just trying to reduce contact and make the day run smoothly.

We will be doing more Cars & Coffee events later in the year, so you won’t be missing out if you can’t join us.

If you wish to join us we look forward to seeing you, but if you decide not to then we fully understand and hopefully you can join us next time.

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

See us at Goodwood FOS with the Zero’s & busy preparing for our next event….

We are excited to be returning to the Goodwood The Festival of Speed later this year with the Zero’s. The last time we exhibited at Goodwood Festival of Speed with the Zero’s was back in 2013, so after many years we are delighted to be going back this year.
It is the largest motoring garden party in the world – an incredible four days that brings together an impossibly heady mix of cars, stars and motorsport ‘royalty’ to create the largest car culture event in the world. Held in the immaculate grounds of Goodwood House, this annual hillclimb event is a true celebration of motorsport and all things automotive. More details and our stand location can be found on our events page.

We are now busy preparing for our next event on the GBS Calendar which is first GBS Cars & Coffee event of the year which is taking place at the GBS Factory very soon on Saturday 21st March at the GBS Factory.

Last year our cars and coffee event that we held in March  was our biggest and busiest ever event, with the car park over flowing, and this year we are hoping you can join us and that its going to be even better!  As always, expect to see plenty of Zero’s in the car park along with a range of other sports cars, our parts shop Kit Spares will be open on the day, and there will be plenty of cakes and unlimited tea and coffee for you all to enjoy, whilst helping us to raise more money for two great charities…. We will be collecting for the Notts & Lincs Air Ambulance & Cancer Research.
Don’t forget to let us know if you will be joining us, so we know how many cakes to make. Everyone is welcome in any car, more details can be found on our event page.

Click here to visit our GBS Facebook event and to let us know you are joining us.
The GBS team look forward to seeing you all.

Did you know that around 80% of the Zero is produced and manufactured in house….

Many of you that have already visited us at the GBS Factory will know that we design and manufacture a lot of our products in house, and around 80% of the Zero is produced in house by our great team of 14 people that make the GBS Zero happen. Below are just a few behind the scenes photographs that show how the Zero and components are produced here at the Factory.

The complete GBS in-house manufacturing and design facility enables you to benefit from a managed supply chain that ensure our products are delivered consistently to the high-quality standard you expect. We design, manufacture and produce in house as much as we can including the Zero Chassis and Race (FIA) Chassis, Wishbones, Aluminium Body Panels, GRP Bodywork (choice of 9 colours) as well as a range of Carbon Fibre Bodywork panels, Suspension, Throttle Bodies, Brake Calipers, Exhaust System including Silencers & Manifolds, Fuel Tanks, Fuel Filler Caps and much more, below are just a few photographs of some of our favourite products that we manufacture. Our product range is not just for our Zero, its also suitable for a full range of other sports cars, we also have full workshop and design facilities enabling us to offer custom fabrication.

The 2000sq ft of component storage that we have provides our customers with access to a  comprehensive parts inventory to support your initial build requirements and the rapid dispatch of spares should the need arise.  Components and spares can be purchased directly from our showroom store at the factory or online from our parts website at www.kitspares.co.uk. and also www.atrproducts.co.uk

The range of GBS Zero’s are available as a factory-built car or in component form. You can select from a variety of packages ranging from a starter kit through to a full bill of material that can be assembled by yourself or by us. The GBS range is available in right or left hand drive and as a Standard width or wider GT chassis option. Click here to see more on the Zero options or contact us to arrange a visit.

You can trust that the range of cars and options available to you will provide superior value in terms of appearance, quality, design, performance, support and most of all enjoyment. See more manufacturing and engineering photographs on our engineering page, please click here.

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GBS Zero on display at the Race Retro Show....

At the weekend some of the GBS Team were at Stoneleigh Park for this years Race Retro Show, which is another one of our favourite shows of the year that we exhibit at. On display was our new GBS Gen 2 Zero demonstrator along with a range of  Kit Spares products which attracted a lot of attention and also on display was some of the popular ATR Products including ATR Sump, ATR Shock Absorber and the Ford 2.5 Duratec Engine and much more on display. Also spotted at the weekend on the 750 Motor Club Stand was our Exhaust Manifold, Inlet Plenum Chamber, Fuel Pressure Regulator that was fitted to a multiple race-winning Ma7da car that was on their stand, we are proud to be supplying the 750 Motor Club with Control parts for the Ma7da Series formula. To see our full range of parts and spares please visit www.kitspares.co.uk and also www.atrproducts.co.uk Lots of new products have recently been added to the Kit Spares website over the last few weeks, see below a few new parts that have been added.

Don’t forget we have our Kit Spares shop and showroom with a full range of parts and spares on display, we are open Monday - Friday and occasional Saturdays depending on events. (please contact us for Saturday openings for both GBS & Kit Spares)

The next event in the GBS Calendar is our first Cars & Coffee (and cake) event of 2020 that we are holding here at the GBS Factory in Nottinghamshire which is happening on Saturday 21st March. It already looks like we will be seeing a variety of different cars in the car park, everyone is welcome to join us and more details can be found on our events page or on our GBS Facebook page. Let us know you will joining us….

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

Fantastic day at our GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event….

The last event of 2019 happened last Saturday (7th December) at the GBS Factory, we held our GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee event. It was a fantastic day and great event and nice to see so many people join us and lots of new faces. The weather could not have been better for it, it was cold but stayed dry it was the morning for the sports cars to be out the garage, the car park was busy all day with people and sports cars. We love how we get lots of Zero owners join us as well a full range of other sports cars, there is always something interesting to see!

We were also delighted that Bernd and the team were able to join us for the weekend from Germany and we think you will all agree the food (Currywurst, German Sausages in bread rolls along with Gluhwein) they were cooking and serving for us all was excellent and enjoyed by everyone along with all the tea, coffee, Christmas Cake and Mince Pies that also went down very well, we had non left! We hope to have raised lots of money for our chosen charities too.

We would also like to thank Richard Scarborough from Witham Motorsport for supporting our event and proving mugs and goodies for you all to enjoy, it was also great that Richard was able to enjoy us on the day too. If you visit our Kit Spares shop you will see a full range of Witham Motorsport Oil that we stock. The Kit Spares shop was also busy on the day with people collecting orders that had been placed, and buying parts to keep busy over the Christmas holidays.

At the end of the day our Zero demonstrator was busy doing a few passenger rides, including a test drive enjoyed by a visitor that came over from Greece especially for the event after seeing it on Facebook. We would like to say a big THANK YOU to you all for joining us, and hope you enjoyed the day as much as we did. If you were unable to make it then please remember that you are always welcome to come and see us at the GBS Factory anytime, we don’t have any mince pies left but we always have plenty of biscuits if you visit before Christmas or anytime!

More photographs from the day can be seen on our GBS Facebook page later this week.

Visit our GBS YouTube page to see a short video of the day, we will be announcing the first 2020 GBS Cars & Coffee date very soon… So keep checking our event page for details.

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

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.

GBS Featured in Magazine & Interesting sports cars in the GBS Car Park....

A few months ago we welcomed Editor Steve Hole from TKC Magazine to GBS where he looked around the factory and enjoyed a drive in our new Zero Gen 2 demonstrator. It had been a few years since Steve last visited so a lot has changed and developed. Steve took our new Zero Gen 2 demonstrator out for a test drive, we are very lucky as we have some great roads close to the factory so Steve was able to put the car through it paces to see what he thought….  When Steve arrived back from his test drive in the new Zero he got out the car and shook Richards hand and said “This car is brilliant, that’s all I can say really”. It’s nice to see that the full feature on GBS and our new Zero Gen 2 can now be seen in this month’s TKC Magazine November / December Issue which is out now in the shops.

Our new Zero demonstrator can be seen this weekend (8th-10th November) on our stand at the Classic Motor Show at the NEC along with two other nice Zero’s one of which will be for sale. Follow us on Instagram to see photos during the show and behind the scenes.

Our last GBS Cars & Coffee event was also featured in Complete Kit Car Magazine last month too. Will you be joining us on Saturday 7th December at GBS for our Christmas Cars and Coffee event? Click here for more details

The GBS Workshop often has some very interesting and sometimes unusual cars in, as does the GBS Car park and last week I spotted this little green sports car in the car park.... It was an original Frazer Nash Targa Florio Mk2, which captured the interest of all the GBS Team. We have also recently prepared and presented a very different vehicle to IVA, which some of you may have seen when you visited the GBS Workshop. We will share more on that with you all next week. Click below for more details about the workshop services that we offer.

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.

Date for the diary - GBS Christmas Cars & Coffee on Saturday 7th December...

It’s a little bit early we know, but we know that every year December can be a very busy month for everyone with the lead up to Christmas! So we thought we would share this with you all now, the GBS Team would like to invite you all to the GBS Factory on Saturday 7th December for a cup of Tea/Coffee and Mince Pies / Biscuits / Cakes and much more to say Happy Christmas and Thank You for all your support this year.

Last year you may remember that Bernd and the team joined us for the weekend from Germany and we think you will all agree the food (Currywurst, German Sausages in bread rolls along with Gluhwein) they were cooking and serving for us all was excellent and enjoyed by everyone. We are pleased to say that hopefully they will be joining us again to do the same this year.
The GBS showroom will be open from 10am till 2pm as well as the Kit Spares Shop we hope you and your family can come and join us!  Everyone is welcome, there will be plenty of mince pies for you all to enjoy too…. More details about the event will be posted on our events page nearer the time. Why not wrap up warm and come in your Zero and other sports cars, last year we had a busy car park full of sports cars.

The next event for the GBS Team is happening in USA later this week, you can see more details on our event page. Follow us on Instagram @gbs_cars to see photos live from the event.