Words in the July 2011 issue of Motor Sport

[Ronald G. Stephenson]

The Caterham and other replicas have been driven hard, tested by many of the enthusiast magazines, and they have gotten rave reviews. Technology marches on, and small specialist cars come and go as all of us know. It is a tribute to the original ideas that made these cars possible,and in no way is a replica any sort of 'knock-off' of the real thing. Few people can be deceived by them,and it makes for a lot of hands-on fun to construct a car.
My idea for the reproduction 409 stands, and if I only produced one car, that would be satisfaction enough. Besides, beauty may only be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. You have to love the 409 in order to stand the nasty comments people make when seeing the car. Matter of taste? Who knows?