Price Of His Toys » Matula http://www.priceofhistoys.com Kit car and homebuilt vehicle blog Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:57:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Later generation of the Matula GT http://www.priceofhistoys.com/2009/01/03/later-generation-of-the-matula-gt/ http://www.priceofhistoys.com/2009/01/03/later-generation-of-the-matula-gt/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:16:15 +0000 Shannon Larratt http://www.priceofhistoys.com/?p=2039 As I mentioned in the previous entry on the Matula kit car, it passed through four manufacturers. The last two (”Bart Holland” and “HD Replica Cars”) sold the car with Delorean-like gullwing doors rather than a flip-top like Bas’s version that’s in the first entry. The example below belonged to Hans Schouten until he sold it in 1999 — I believe his Manx SR-style scissor doors were a one-off conversion.

]]> http://www.priceofhistoys.com/2009/01/03/later-generation-of-the-matula-gt/feed/ 0 Bas’s Matula http://www.priceofhistoys.com/2009/01/03/bass-matula/ http://www.priceofhistoys.com/2009/01/03/bass-matula/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:56:24 +0000 Shannon Larratt http://www.priceofhistoys.com/?p=2035 Another rare kit car classic is the Matula, designed in 1972 by Ed Matula and tested in NASA’s wind tunnel. In the States it was sold as the Talon, but after being discontinued there it was sold from 1975-1984 in Holland as the Matula by a series of companies. Pictured below is the two seater version (but it also existed as a 2+2), which belongs to Bas from Speedon Kitcar Collection, the largest kitcar dealer on the European continent — check his site for tons of great cars for sale. Bas estimates that somewhere between ten and fifteen Matulas exist. He’s since sold his, which he restored and swapped a Ford Cortina engine into in the nineties.

There’s also a video of a Matula on YouTube.

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