again what about SVA???
Ralph
As a low volume car builder I would imagine Z Cars (at least, the original firm - seems like they've had some changes to their business so maybe this is legally a new company) would have been authorised to self-certify its cars.
However, the chap in the video is talking about offering a DIY kit for customers who "want your Fiat 500 to go faster" (classic British understatement!) so if I as Joe Punter bought said kit and fitted it to my own Fiat bodyshell it would be no different legally from me getting an engine from a scrappy and building my own conversion from scratch - so I'd need to arrange my own SVA test. ... (and yes, Bambino126, the SVA test has to be the first hurdle as if you can't clear that then all else is money down the drain unless you have your own farmland or airstrip to drive around on)...
UNLESS:....
in the old days of kit cars, ie the 1960s and 1970s, before the onslaught of European-wide type approval regs etc, there were still requirements that any 'special' or conversion had to comply with what in those days was called Construction & Use Regulations, part of the Road Traffic Act iirc. Then as now, keen amateurs were long on enthusiasm but short on authorised test facilities.
To get around the C&U Regs requirements, kit car suppliers who offered a minimum number of the same model of kit could get a sort of type approval for their particular offering, provided it was built into a car by the buyer exactly as specified by the kit car manufacturer.
So for example, if KitKars4U had a production run of say 45 kits that they themselves had already had approved if used with a donor Ford Escort 1600, then provided the customer also used a Ford Escort 1600 donor, and provided he followed KitKars4U's assembly instructions to the letter, then the resulting vehicle was deemed to be approved, and would only be shown not to be 'correct' when it was tested at its first MoT test. If it passed, then all was fine and the use could enjoy it at leisure. (How and to what extent this arrangement was monitored and enforced I have no idea - most likely hardly at all... ah, the sixties...
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If on the other hand he decided to use the kit with a Chevy V36 2000cu in dragster donor, then he was back to square one and had to get the individual vehicle testing sorted out himself.
I don't know if this sort of approval is still available with kit cars today... anybody ?