Factory Five Featured in Kit Car Builder Magazine

The October 2011 Edition Hits Newsstands

Kit Car Builder is the ONLY published kit car magazine in the USA and is written and published by Jim Youngs and his wife (the real boss). Jim is one of the few true experts in the kit car industry. Jim’s experience goes way back to the Petersen Publishing days as he was the editor of Petersen’s Kit Car Magazine.

Jim’s KCB Magazine has some great features this month (it’s actually a bi-monthly magazine), notable among them is a great feature on the London C-car Show, and excellent coverage of our new 818 car and the 2011 Open House.

While Kit Car Magazine’s Factory Five Annual is on the newsstands right now (it is a special issue of Kit car – a different label brought back for FFR), we wanted to also give some kudos to Jim at Kit Car Builder for the great work he does on his book.

Dave Smith
President

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