kaditcha® was started by Barry Lock after returning to Australia after his time at McLaren Motor racing, the first kaditcha® was Barry's personal racing car it was manufactured at McLaren by Barry Lock with the help of Gordon Coppuck (later fame the Mclaren M23) and Joe Marquart (later to be Huron Cars) based on the M7 F1 McLaren, that car features Numerous McLaren parts and Open Wheeler design.

After the first car there was interest starting to gather about building Customer cars and the next one was made for Vern Hamilton another Open Wheeler.

There were a total of Four Sports Cars built at kaditcha® the first one based on the successful M8 McLaren design, Barry was also instrumental in the manufacture of the M8 McLaren chassis whilst he was at McLaren, This particular car designated the kaditcha® SR781 featured Nicholson McLaren Cosworth EAA engine, very rare today and Hewland FG400 Gearbox and also Monocoque design chassis.

The Second Sports car was the first V8 Sports Car and used a lot of McLaren M10 parts in its construction and also similar body design to the SR781, this car was later owned by Chris Clearahan.

The third Sports car was built for Steve Webb, with the late Peter Hopwood driving at a later date and also Chris Clearahan.

The Fourth Sports car what can i say it was Built for Bap Romano and featured European Group C styling  with a Cosworth DFV engine and is still owned today by Bap Romano, this car suffered a terrible accident at Amaroo Park and has been rebuilt by Barry Lock.

The Sport Cars dominated the Australian Sports Car titles back in the 80's.

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