Hawk Cars stand tour with a Lancia Stratos and Gerry Hawkridge at the National Kit Car Malvern 2023

Join Trevor as Gerry Hawkridge of Hawk Cars takes us on a tour of the Stratos and Cobra replicas on his stand at Malvern 2023. Having been building replicas since the late 1970s, Gerry is a wealth of knowledge and also has some great stories - how he climbs mountains to collect mouse hair for Stratos dashboards is just one (not sure this is true though!)

[@morris2450]

A real nice guy who knows his cars and is passionate about detail.

[@daveparry1569]

Really enjoyed hearing Gerry talking about these fantastic cars and with such an understated but genuine passion for them. A couple of dodgy looking characters hanging around in the background from just before 2:00 minutes though (Me and Rob!) We didn't realise you were filming!

[@7Spot556]

Thanks for sharing your car with us Dave! ... no words ... simply Fab! ... and Gerry was Pure Gold!

[@davidcannon2464]

What a character that guy is so much knowledge. . Great video guys

[@7Spot556]

Pure Gold!

[@ettoredomini3189]

this vid is an absolute menance to my everlasting desire to own own an original stratos.

[@7Spot556]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@briandean2296]

Great interview Gerry, you are so knowledgeable..

[@ettoredomini4614]

Missing a daily view fo a stratos being used on public road.
Too few in this world .
More replicas please.❤

[@markmark5269]

I am annoyed some time ago that the staff of Lister Bell (LB Cars) had me to believe that Jerry's cars are not exact replica's like "theirs", I have since learnt it's the other way around, Gerry's cars are the exact replicas.

[@bennyb.1742]

Yeah, Gerry's cars are as close as it gets. However, like a lot of Italian dream cars, the originals are actually kind of shit! LB's whole deal is being like the Singer of Stratos'. Almost nothing to do with the originals but share the spirit and use fancy modern bits. I do agree with you though, LB cast some shade on Hawk's using all kinds of "donor" car parts. Well the real ones are just slapped together out of all kinds of dodgy Fiat parts anyways!

[@allsearpw3829]

What a nice chap , so polite as never mentioned the prices .🤔 A true gent .

[@gary5481]

I saw Sandro Munari competing in period in 1976, in a rally in South Africa. My father showed me at the time, that the brakes were water cooled, with a mechanism that sprayed water onto the discs. I've never been able to ascertain whether that modification was maintained in later years.

[@georgesheffield1580]

Corvettes in the USA, SCCA used their windshield washers plumbed to spray on the calipers to cool them .

[@rogerpage9682]

Great video

[@7Spot556]

Glad you enjoyed the video.
We will have more Live and Recorded TH-cam videos coming from Malvern this year.

[@elnyoutube123]

I'm going to save up and buy one of these one day hopefully it can be legally driven in the US

[@davidcannon2464]

Mouse hair lol

[@Fioravanti.80]

Hawk cars more alike the originals compared to Lister Bell? Yes, I'd believe this.

[@universpro7741]

I want an hf

[@pjs9346]

Stratos🥳🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@jurgenhanspach6382]

do they have VIN number?

[@7Spot556]

👍

[@7Spot556]

Yes