The Light Car Company Rocket
Gordon murray and chris craft founded the light car company in st neots in 1991 and started producing automobiles.
The light car company rocket. Whittaker reports that holley has never changed the brake pads on one and the tyres will go hard before they wear out. The light car company ltd has had its roots firmly embedded in all things cars since the early 1990 s when ex grand prix driver chris craft and mclaren legend gordon murray designed and built the most iconic motorcycle engined car ever produced the rocket. The result was the rocket from the newly formed light car company. Light car company rocket.
Production ran until 1998. One of the lightest road cars ever conceived the. At 38 000 in 1992 the rocket wasn t cheap. Https bit ly 2deyuzq make sure to enable all push notifications watch the newe.
Built by chris crafts light car company the rocket was penned by the great gordon murray the father of such automotive icons as the mclaren f1 the extraordinary brabham fan car and multiple grand prix world championship winning machines for brabham and mclaren. The only model was the rocket. Even so for a clean sheet design penned by an f1 giant a production run of 47 cars seems less than the team deserved. Time to find out if it s as quick as its name suggests.
Such is the car s lack of weight that it puts very little load through its components. He had masterminded two world championships for brabham and four for mclaren in the senna and prost heyday. And ran out of petrol subscribe. It s reminiscent of a formula vee but has.
Http bit ly jlgsubscribe visit the official site. I bought a light car company rocket. This 838 pound machine is the light car company rocket designed by a pre mclaren f1 gordon murray to be the purest driving experience in the world. Jay revisits gordon murray s lightweight car the rocket one of only 55 ever made.
The super light super rare rocket has never ventured out onto the west circuit before. Though the light car company has recently restarted production three more s the aim this weeks spotlight is a fantastically bright rocket from 94. The vehicle was built to be extremely lightweight and as such it weighs only 850 pounds 385 6 kg less than the lotus or caterham seven.