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Icon-Engineering Our company mandate is to manufacture high quality replicas of famous sports car from the 70’s, starting with the Iconic Replica 917

Clearing out my garage and been going through hundreds of old magazines and found this Autosport from 16th April 1970 wi...
12/05/2026

Clearing out my garage and been going through hundreds of old magazines and found this Autosport from 16th April 1970 with the front cover and article from the April 12th 1970 BOAC 1000kms. As many of you will know a certain Pedro Rodriguez won in the wet by 5 laps and was also the race I watched that was the inspiration for reverse engineering my Icon 917K.
But a few of you will notice that the caption above the photo says "BOAC 2000"! I wonder if I have an early miss-print or if all the 1970 April 16th Autosport's say BOAC 2000!
The eagle eyed of you may also notice the No 10 nose of Pedro's 917 lurking in the background.

Worth getting up early, as after a dark and cold early morning blast around the M25 which made me think of the drivers b...
12/10/2025

Worth getting up early, as after a dark and cold early morning blast around the M25 which made me think of the drivers back in the day at Le Mans, arrived at Brooklands at 7.42, and with no one around managed to get some photos of the car next to Concorde!

Out from storage and back on my drive having a quick check over and dust off, before braving the M25 chaos (yet again!) ...
10/10/2025

Out from storage and back on my drive having a quick check over and dust off, before braving the M25 chaos (yet again!) to drive to the Brooklands Motorsport day on Sunday. And my grandson took the opportunity to hop in and pose!

Great photo on the Brooklands Motorsport day website which is this Sunday, of me negotiating Druids on a damp track day ...
09/10/2025

Great photo on the Brooklands Motorsport day website which is this Sunday, of me negotiating Druids on a damp track day at Brands. Displaying and also been invited to do a few laps on the Mercedes test track, and if anyone is there could do with some video on track. Pop along as there will be a fabulous collection of cars, and get to see Concorde as well.

Following on from my post a couple of weeks back about buying the set of Porsche 917 panels, and what do you do next! Si...
17/09/2025

Following on from my post a couple of weeks back about buying the set of Porsche 917 panels, and what do you do next!

Simple, build a wood frame to assemble the panels ensuring all the major dimensions are accurate…..and then stick 2001 reflective dots on the body and have it scanned. This was early 2012, and the scanning technology has moved on a tad, but the results are still the same you get an stl file which is huge and very difficult to manipulate. There is software that can generate a surface but that cost about £4k, so I had X, Y, and Z sections cut through the stl file and surfaced myself.

I did as we do in the Ford world and surfaced one side and reflected the RHS to the LHS and that’s when I found out the screen is not central, it’s offset 10mm from the centreline! Well the designs and bodies were built in 1968/9 and CAD did not exist!

First of the Drivers Union cars to arrive at Salon Prive on Sunday, and had the opportunity to get some photos of the ca...
04/09/2025

First of the Drivers Union cars to arrive at Salon Prive on Sunday, and had the opportunity to get some photos of the car with the early morning sun and the lake in the background. Off to the Concours tomorrow at Hampton Court again with the Drivers Union.
My Icon 917K has been living at SVP in the midlands for the last few weeks in preparation for a collaboration with SVP to build an exclusive run of 10 cars with Redtek 3.8L twin turbo engines. Power starting at 500bhp in 870kg, giving the the authentic opportunity to experience what the drivers and actors experienced driving the originals 917’s in 1970 and 71.

10/07/2025

My road legal ICON 917K homage doing shake down runs on the local dual carriageway back in September 2019 with the original 1st September 2019 registration plate. “The Canoe” was reversed engineered and designed to be accurate to the originals, but using a Porsche 964 Flat 6 as can’t quite afford the £1million for a Flat 12! Also engineered to meet and pass the stringent UK IVA requirements to get correct road legality.

Back in Feb 2014 we displayed at RaceRetro, with a set of body panels sitting on the newly completed chassis, and create...
19/02/2025

Back in Feb 2014 we displayed at RaceRetro, with a set of body panels sitting on the newly completed chassis, and created a lot of attention. Seemed sensible to call the RaceRetro team and asked if they would like to display the finished car 10 years on at the 2024 show, to which they said “oh yes” what a great story. As we all know the local river burst it’s bank and 2024 was cancelled. I emailed RaceRetro again this January just to make sure they still wanted it 2025, and the same answer!

This morning my Icon 917K was collected by the most massive transporter, which was then off to Classic Team Lotus. Had to reverse on and a tight fit but Stu the transporter driver gave excellent directions!

My ICON 917K homage will be displayed in the “Pride of the Paddock” so if your attending pop along and give my “10 years of lunacy” a vote for maddest car in the “Pride of the Paddock!
Cheers Dave

As a 13-year-old who was lucky to have witnessed Pedro (and many of my other hero's) at Brands on wet BOAC 1000kms on Ap...
09/02/2025

As a 13-year-old who was lucky to have witnessed Pedro (and many of my other hero's) at Brands on wet BOAC 1000kms on April 12th 1970, this was the original catalyst which eventually provoked me to reverse engineer a 917 homage. But I wasn't alone that day, my brother-in-law Paul drove myself and my long-time friend Andy and we were all watched in awe as Pedro disappeared down the road in a ball of spray to win by 5 laps. Even our own Quick Vic couldn't keep up!
Andy and I have remained pals over the last 60 years or so, and back in July last year (some 54 years later) I arranged to take Andy out for a few laps of the Indy circuit to remind us both of that wet and cold but truly "folk law" day at Brands.
I took it fairly easy, because if you listen to the question, I asked him as we enter back into the pits in the second video you will understand why!

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