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Essex

  • Ashley

    Discontinued 1955 – 1962 Kit Car

    Ashley Laminates of Essex made glass-fibre bodies and chassis for home-built specials from 1955 to 1962, based on Austin Seven and Ford parts. Its 1172 body went on…

  • Dax

    Active 1968 – present Kit Car Sports & Specialist

    Dax, founded by Derek Johns in 1968 as DJ Sportscars, was the first British company to make a kit replica of the AC Cobra 427. Its Dax 427,…

  • Ginetta

    Active 1958 – present Sports & Specialist Kit Car

    The four Walklett brothers founded Ginetta at Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1958, building kit and component sports cars such as the G4 and G15. Now owned by Lawrence Tomlinson's…