GCS Hawke ... a Replica worth a happy double take

The Hawke was developed in the early 1990’s, by Gary Hutton and Colin Puttock, the founding partners of GCS Cars.

At that time there were very few open-top sports cars provided by the World’s manufacturers and they spotted a market opportunity for an affordable classically styled sports car based upon modern running gear and built relatively easily by do it yourselfers.

The Hawke is a 2 door open top sports kit car which bears a striking resemblance to the Morgan Plus 8 but, contrary to popular opinion, there are no common parts.

It had a substantial square box frame chassis and a glass-reinforced plastic body with two doors and a soft top.
It used the Ford Cortina and later the Sierra as the donor vehicles and could take a variety of engines from Ford and the Rover V8.