OLD GOLD
remember well the beautiful sunny day spent in the Kent town of Rochester when somehow we managed to sneak into the grounds of Rochester Castle and snap a few pictures of Paul Foreman’s Technic 550, a car that reset my thinking on kit cars. The basic design of the Martin and Walker version of Porsche’s lightweight racer was the brainchild of engineer, Martin Barrie. He took inspiration from the tube-framed Porsche it clearly apes, but added double wishbone front suspension, rack and pinion steering