About the shop
BUILT BY HAND. DRIVEN FOR REAL.
We are a small shop. That is not a limitation. It is the point.
THE SHOP
Vintage Supercars exists because of a specific idea: that the most compelling car ever built was a small, lightweight sports car with a big American V8, developed as a complete machine and driven without apology. Carroll Shelby understood it. Bill Thomas understood it. Peter Brock understood it. We are carrying that idea forward.
We build one or two cars at a time. Every chassis is fabricated in-house. Every system is engineered to work together — not assembled from a catalog. The result is a car that drives the way it looks: purposeful, alive, and slightly improper.
Our current program is the Banshee — a re-bodied, V8-powered GT coupe built on a Triumph Spitfire platform. Wider, lower, longer, and stronger than the car it started as, with the stance, sound, and confidence the original never had. It is not a replica. It is not a kit. It is a commission.
THE PHILOSOPHY
CHOOSING SOMETHING LESS SENSIBLE, MORE PERSONAL, AND MORE ALIVE.
The customer who commissions one of these cars is not buying another collectible. He is not filling a gap in a collection or making a financial decision. He is choosing something that will demand something from him — attention, skill, presence. A car that is genuinely fast, genuinely beautiful, and genuinely improper. The purist might object. That is part of why the owner wants it.
The Builder
BOBBY SPADE
Builder & Founder
Bobby Spade has spent decades building, driving, and documenting the cars that defined American performance in the 1960s. His work draws from the tradition of the small-displacement, big-power sports car — the Cobra, the Cheetah, the Devin, the Kellison — and applies modern engineering to that foundation without losing what made those cars compelling.
He builds cars to be driven. Not displayed, not trailered, not stored. Driven on roads, on tracks, and on the kind of tours where the car is the point.
COMMISSION A BUILD
We take one or two commissions at a time. If you are considering a build, the right first step is a conversation.
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