Ginetta G26

The Ginetta G26 was the base model of a family of four two door sports cars, with the G28, G30 and G31 as derivatives, designed and manufactured by British company Ginetta and sold mainly as kits from 1984. It was introduced in the spring of 1984 as a wedge shaped two door, five seat hatchback coupe with pop up headlights, on a square tube steel frame designed by Ivor Walklett to take the chassis and drivetrain parts of a single donor Ford Cortina Mark 3 or 4. The glass fibre body was by Trevor Walklett and used the doors and windscreen of the Ford Fiesta Mark 1. Most buyers chose a 2.0 litre Ford Pinto four cylinder engine of 77 kilowatts, giving a top speed of 192 kilometres per hour. A kit cost 2,959 pounds, and it was the most successful car of the family.