If you’re lucky enough to own a new Aston Martin DB4GT or Jaguar Lightweight E-type, or any newly recreated exotic, here’s some good news. R-Reforged reckons it can put it on the road for you.
As well as upgrading the Vanquish to create the car designer Ian Callum wanted, the Swiss-owned firm can modify the new Continuation DB4GT – which Aston said was for off-road use only – and put it through Single Vehicle Approval to make it road-legal.
That means changing 60-odd items on the car, from ditching the eared wheel spinners to fitting door mirrors, rolled instead of slash-cut exhaust tips, E-marked side glass and soft beading to the rain gutters.
Adding catalytic converters was easy enough to package, but getting them to work with triple Webers took rather more effort.
The soft steering-wheel boss conforms to modern safety requirements
The process, which includes UK-registering the car, takes 10 weeks and a rather eye-watering sum, but that’s a drop in the ocean compared with the cost of buying it in the first place.
And, having refined its techniques, R-Reforged is confident it can get just about any small-volume or one-off car though the approval process.
