Complete Car Builder magazine

22/01/2025

Fancy a UK car magazine that's chock-full of content? Well if your coffee table reading material appears to be getting thinner by the edition, it might be time to try out the UK's latest car building magazine – or at least check out issue one's contents below – as it's filled to the brim with great cars, features and insights.

If you like what you see, there's more on our launch issue here: www.completecarbuilder.com/our-launch-issue

05/01/2025

We're getting some great feedback regarding Complete Car Builder 'Number One,' but if you haven't caught us in store or online yet there's still time to bag a first edition of the UK's newest magazine with either a £25 UK subscription (www.completekitcar.co.uk/subscribe) or a single issue purchase in store or with free UK postage online: tinyurl.com/2hjxnbrp

Inside you'll learn all about how the 'Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250' Haynes Manual led to a whole movement in car building from the engineer/author Ron Champion himself... and find out all about the future of Locost Number One to boot.

Beyond that we uncover the sheds that birthed the Lotus brand, meet a 300-plus BHP MG Midget missile, get to grips with a circuit ready hot rod, go autotesting, dive deep into our extensive build archive, drool over a one-off official Vanwall from the millennia and so much more. It's a packed mag, as our preview page – www.completecarbuilder.com/our-launch-issue – proves.

15/12/2024

🎄 Our first evolution issue is heading out to stores and subscribers next week... and a good thing too, as it's an absolute cracker 🎁 As you can see from our preview here: https://www.completecarbuilder.com/our-launch-issue

If you're looking to grab a subscription for yourself or a loved one before the big day there is still time, as we will be sending all orders made before 11PM on Tuesday the 17th to Royal Mail for its last postage date in time for the big day... after which single issues will be added to the store for post Christmas deliveries.

Last minute pre-orders can be made here: https://www.completekitcar.co.uk/subscribe
(Sadly export delivery dates cannot be calculated).

01/12/2024

It’s the first day of December, which is exciting… but we’re counting down to something other than the big day. That’s right, the first issue of CKC’s new title will be here just before the 25th.

If you want to be sure you’re on the list for CCB Number One, you can check out our new website and pre-order a subscription to the UK’s newest print extravaganza below. Do that before midnight on the 17th and we’ll get it over to UK readers in time for Christmas.

It is going to be a huge transformation.

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22/11/2024

🚨🚨🚨 Our December 2024 collector's pre-revamp issue is out now online www.completekitcar.co.uk/latest-issue and in store 🚨🚨🚨

This issue is not to be missed as it's the final solely CKC branded edition, which precedes our revamp into the next Complete Car Builder iteration this Christmas 🎄

Inside you'll find plenty of behind the scenes insight into the past 17 years and 223 editions, a bit on what to expect with our imminent revamp and of course... some epic kit car builds.

It's already selling out fast from our store, so any mag collectors out there will want to jump on this one.

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17/11/2024

🚨🎄 Our Next Iteration is coming this Christmas 🎄🚨

As promised, we're now ready to reveal our big plans for 2025 and the future of the World's best selling kit car publication... which is why we dispatched Jack into the garden to tell you all about it.

There's more coming next week in the mag, and a little more info below on our website. We're super excited for this one, and hope you are too... it's going to be a big year for us and the kit car scene.

https://www.completekitcar.co.uk/blog/blog-6

15/11/2024

We've been a little quiet on here for a few weeks, and there's a very big and exciting reason for that!

All of which will be revealed this weekend (and in the coming week)... so do keep an eye on our socials 👀 2025 is going to be a mega year for the World's best selling kit car magazine.

25/10/2024

🚨🚨🚨 Our November 2024 issue is out now 🚨🚨🚨

Available in all good newsagents and online – www.completekitcar.co.uk/subscribe – it's another jam packed issue that is not to be missed. Inside you'll find:

- Adam gets to grips AK Sports Cars’ latest 8-speed automatic option for the AK427, and it wasn’t at all what we expected.
- We revisit the Westfield XTR2 via an updated and uprated kit that has been rebuilt for modern tastes and trackday needs.
- The family EKC Sonic 7 – how a low capacity father and son exoskeletal build led to a career in Engineering.
- Three-wheelers, everything you need to know about this always endearingly quirky genre of kit cars.
- How to build or restore the best Locost.
- Buying second-hand... our guide to bagging the best kit car, without the need to build it yourself!
- Rust-proofing: how to keep the dreaded tinwork away from structure.
- Every highlight from the Newark Kit Car Festival.

And so much more from the UK’s favourite kit car magazine!

11/10/2024

Ever dreamed of building your own car from scratch?

Get expert guidance and inspiration from the UK's number one kit car magazine. Available in store... or directly to your door for less with a subscription deal below

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11/10/2024

We just had to share this great vid from MEV KIT CARS , which just so happens to feature our editor Jack’s mum [at 00:30] explaining what she thought of the Malvern Exocet Experience… safe to say she still doesn’t ‘get’ the appeal of fast cars (kit or otherwise) 😬.

Check out when MEV Kit Cars took-over the 2024 National Kit Car Show 2024 in Malvern.We had two brilliant days at this event - displaying our kit cars and pu...

01/10/2024

And now for something completely different! Yes, it has been a long time since practical kit cars were all the rage here... but this UK-assembled and US-bred Volkswagen Bora conversion is currently winning plenty of accolades and attention in our sphere.

Could the tide be changing once again? Find out all in our latest issue, which is available now in newsagents or via our webstore: www.completekitcar.co.uk/subscribe

27/09/2024

🚨🚨🚨 Our October 2024 issue is out today 🚨🚨🚨

Available in all good newsagents and online – www.completekitcar.co.uk/subscribe – this issue is jam packed and not to be missed. Inside you'll find:

- The homebuilt Volkswagen-based Ute conversion kit that's taking the USA by storm.
- We celebrate 60 years of the Californian beach buggy genre in News, Clubs and feature one of the UK's best homegrown GT kits.
- We look at what is likely the last Westfield from the previous Kingswinford operation... and how Toybox has refined this winning formula.
- A father and son Sonic7 build that culminated in an apprenticeship and a newfound interest in engineering.
- Retro Round-Up... Richard Heseltine digs deep to find the best (and sometimes worst) kits from his and our extensive archive.
- We tell you all about the ever-popular, and surprisingly inexpensive Honda K20 family of VTEC engines.
- Our guide to caring for and upgrading one of the many Ford Sierra-based kit cars.
- Modifying the bombastic Nova

And all the latest kit car news and club reviews.
And much, much more from the UK’s biggest kit car magazine!

24/09/2024

Looking to get into kit cars, or want to keep up with the latest kits, epic homebuilds and the latest industry news and advice? If so, why not subscribe to UK's biggest kit car magazine?

Not only will you save £16.50, you'll also get each issue through your letterbox before it's out in the shops.

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