This is an Invader GT kit car that has been converted to battery-electric power, in what can be described as an oddball combination of fiberglass ā70s kit-car styling and first-generation EV hardware. The low nose, gullwing door, and mid-engine proportions vaguely suggest a Ferrari Dino or racing prototype, but the Invader is very much its […]
I’m not sure if you could describe anything powered by an original Volkswagen flat-4 as “like a race car” …but if add enough displacement, compression, and fuel into VW pancake, you MIGHT get something that’ll sound like a race car backwards or forwards. But does it really matter when the car looks this good standing […]
The DT tips inbox has been filled with sooooo many great tips these days and I just can’t post em all!! So here is a 1966 Bradley Invader GT offered for the bargain price of $2,800 in Falls Church, VA via craigslist. Tip from Rock On! See a cheaper way to drive something that’ll get […]
The Gilbern Invader was a small sports car built in Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales. It is one of the few cars ever engineered and built in the country that brought us the equals sign, tennis and Catherine Zeta-Jones. By 1972 the Invader (actually the descendant of something called the GT, then the Genie) was […]
You would be forgiven for not being familiar with today’s feature car, as it hails from Wales, a country better known for its ancient Celtic language and not exactly a hotbed of automobile manufacturing. The Gilbern car company was founded in the late 50s by two men, one a German ex-POW and engineering who remained […]