16th December 2004  Apologies everybody that the site's been a bit wobbly of late.  The webmaster's fault, he's using a new flavour of software that's better but takes time to sort out new sites when introduced to them.

4th December 2004  For Sale a 1974 Ginetta G21 that the factory sold twice!

23rd November 2004  Ginetta G33 designer Mark Walklett's Ferrari in the Free Ads.  Mrs Spadge likes this car so it is indeed a rare beast and do remember a Ferrari is a red car with a horse.

29th October 2004  The Elva Courier is sold to Trevor Kemp who owned and competed in a Ginetta G4 for many years.  We are restoring and race preparing the Elva so Trevor can run it with the MG Team, now renamed Equipe GTS and including other 60s classics.  His MGB V8 is for sale but he's keeping the Jaguar XK120 (damn his eyes).

The Turner has been temporarily withdrawn from sale but should be available again  in the new year 2005.

25th October 2004  "Dear Spadge,  Julian and I took first in class at the California Autumn Classic in San Juan Bautista yesterday.  Our class included a Daimler Dart and a late series big Healey.  Everyone just loved the car.  Note that in contrast to the prizes you win, we won ours sitting still!

We used the hood for the first time, carrying it with our luggage in the boot on Saturday but putting it on overnight and showing the car with it on due to showers (the first since May) on the Sunday and heavy rain on the drive home.   We got 32 miles per gallon (US) for the 130 mile roundtrip and the 85 mile back roads tour on Saturday.  Dan" 

In August the G4 was at the Pacific Grove Show and Rally.

13th October 2004 

5th October 2004  Dave and Nina Baker's Ginetta G21 competing on the hills of Scotland last weekend following re-commissioning and engine work here.

4th September 2004  Last week Richard Branson (no, not that one) collected his Ginetta G15 that he bought so quickly we didn't have time to put it on here.  Spadge awarded him The Worst Trailer of the Year Award (no, not the "He was a man.  She was a woman.  This time it was personal." type trailer and yes the award is awarded yearly on a year by by year basis).  Richard thought this rather unfair as he had only borrowed the trailer.

19th August 2004  Dan and son recently drove their Ginetta G4 to Monterey where it received much acclaim  at the Pacific Grove Show and Rally.

16th August 2004  Freelance Damian Malone journalist working for Practical Performance Car magazine wants to feature the yellow V8 Imp we had for sale in the Free Ads for quite some time.  If you can help Damian contact him on 07802 685146.

12th August 2004 Paul Tapner has taken Spadge's advice and brought his Ginetta G33 with 13,000 top down miles worth of baked on Spanish flies in for a service.

6th August 2004  Paul Tapner is now on the second set of new tyres bought this trip in his Ginetta G33.  The last set took 5000 miles to wear out and his trip mileage is 11,000  .. all with the top down!  Paul, get back to the office, drink more in the evenings, take up war gaming or macramé, book in for a service something must be about to fall off!

8th  July 2004  When we delivered The G12P project to Roger Williams in Scotland last year, his wife was muttering that they had some lovely projects in the garage but no curtains in the house.  This amused us greatly.  This week we received an encouraging progress report from Roger and the email was titled "Still no curtains".

29th June 2004

"Dad, is a Ferrari a red car with a horse?"

"Yes son, why?"

"I think we've just been overtaken by one."

30th May 2004 

We've been working on a very nice Gilbern Invader Mk3 for Ian Burrows.  It is a lovely car which sounds great and is a practical and comfy four-seater.  Doesn’t handle like a Ginetta though!

20th April 2004  Apologies for the lack of news recently but you may have noticed changes to the website which we hope you may find within yourselves to consider as "improvements"!  

We recently sold a lovely bright red Ginetta G15  to a delightful French gentleman by the name of Arnaud who is racing it in France.  Once Arnaud announced he was coming over to look at cars Spadge requested that he bring some nice wine and was told  "All our wine is nice!". A case was duly presented within two  minutes of Arnaud's arrival and negotiations went swimmingly.  The purchase concluded with a rather fine bottle of champagne.  Marvellous.  Arnaud has now freshened up the engine and stamped his own personality on the car.  We wish him every success.

11^th February 2004  We were very sad to learn from David Grunberg that his immaculate Ginetta G4 was involved in an horrific accident recently.  The great news is that he walked away from a car with virtually no bodywork left, without a scratch. This is testament to the design of the chassis and the ability of fibreglass to absorb impact, albeit with rather messy results.  The Ginetta G10 that he has bought and we are preparing for him is in the workshop gaining new trim, paint and a few other bits and pieces.