Ready for a new classic British sports car? Meet the Caton

It’s been a little while since a new British sports car company was announced, hasn’t it? Now you’ve got used to Gordon Murray Automotive and Radford, here’s another entry: Caton.

Caton, as you can see, is teasing a shadowy image of what is very obviously a classic sports car. There’s a low-set wraparound windscreen, a classically long bonnet and curvaceous, flowing haunches. Crucially for a British sports car, it seems to have all the protection from the great British weather of an inside-out umbrella. Excellent.

However, Caton says it’s going to be something a bit different. The Coventry-based firm says that while its first creation will be “a two-seater British sports car”, the company “will focus on the enhancement and reincarnation of iconic products, not just vehicles, sympathetically updated for the modern age".

Basically, restomod All The Things. Love the idea of a classic British sports car built to modern motorsport standards with a mixture of CNC-machined and 3D-printed parts plus hard-formed panels? Of course you do. But why stop there? What else would you like restomodded from the 1950s or 1960s? A motorcycle? A kettle? A chair? Let’s be having your ideas.

Company associate Tim Strafford said: “Caton’s ethos goes beyond merely that of reimagining. It is a case of purification and modernisation. It is more respectful of – and true to – the original product, be it a vehicle, an item of furniture or otherwise, than the term ‘reimagine’ perhaps implies.

“Its ethos is one of reincarnation. It will take loved and cherished cars and objects from the past and improve upon them using new materials and manufacturing processes.”

Right, ideas below then: what do you want restoring to better-than-new nick… that isn’t a car?