Gordon Murray Rocket Car
Powered by a 1 liter yamaha engine and carrying under half a ton even with a driver rarely is a car name as appropriate as with the rocket.
Gordon murray rocket car. Murray independently designed the rocket an ultra lightweight open cockpit roadster powered by a 1 litre motorcycle engine which has an appearance similar to that of a 60s era grand prix car. Looking like a single seater it could accommodate a passenger in tandem with the driver the second seat located beneath a removable cover. But one that sticks fresh in jay lenos mind is the rocket from light car company.
With fewer than six thousand miles this still looks new. This is gordon murrays first road car and jay owns one. My main goal in.
The only model was the rocket. Gordon murray 1992 lcc rocket. Before gordon murray created the mclaren f1 or even contemplated its successor 28 years laterthe new t50 hypercar he sat down with his friend chris craft and over a pint of beer the two men started dreaming.
But gordon murray of mclaren f1 fame did him one better in 1991 and created the light car company with race driver christopher craft and its first and only vehicle. Driving the light car company rocket gordon murrays original hypercar. Production ran until 1998.
The rocket is gordon murrays pre mclaren masterpiece built in 1991 this street legal motorcycle powered car weighs just 770 lbs. The rocket was built by the light car company the brain child of murray and racing driver chris craft with the goal of designing a sixties style lightweight race car for the road with no. Gordon murray and chris craft founded the light car company in st neots in 1991 and started producing automobiles.
The light car company was born in 1991 and only kicked. Small nimble and shatteringly quick the light car company rocket is as close as youll get to driving a single seater on the public road.