GinettaG4

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Origins

The four Walklett brothers built Ginetta into Britain's most durable family sports-car firm, and the G4, launched at the start of the 1960s, was their masterpiece of the era: a tubular spaceframe under a pretty glassfibre body, Ford power in various small displacements, and weight low enough to make modest horsepower devastating. It won relentlessly in club racing — often against machinery from far grander catalogues — while remaining road-usable and affordable in kit form, the complete Ginetta proposition in one car. Production continued in series and revivals for decades, with Japan developing a particular devotion to the shape. The G4 established the marque's identity that survives in today's one-make racing empire: engineering by family, victories by the hundred, pretension entirely absent.