{"id":459841,"date":"2002-12-01T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2002-12-01T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=109159"},"modified":"2024-12-27T01:24:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:24:24","slug":"reynard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/reynard\/","title":{"rendered":"Reynard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier this year Reynard disappeared, having once been the world\u2019s most prolific maker of racing cars. I\u2019ve known Adrian Reynard for more than twenty years and so I was personally sad when Reynard folded. The historian in me was also sad because Adrian was the last of a great English tradition: the guy who builds a special and who is asked to make replicas and so becomes a constructor.<\/p>\n

Eric Broadley was one such constructor. He built the Lola-Climax Mk 1 because he had ambitions to be a racing driver and could not afford a Lotus. As it was, the Lola Mk 1 wiped out Lotus from the small sports racing car market. John Cooper was another who built a special for his own use and ended up a constructor, as was Colin Chapman, Brian Lister and John Tojeiro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n