View our classic 289 cars With a variety of suspension, body, and frame options our Kirkham 289 cars can be built for a perfect daily driver or weekend warrior.

The Kirkham 289 FIA is all about original performance. If you missed out on owning owning a piece of race history once before avid letting it happen again. The Kirkham 289 FIA cars are …

If you look closely, you can see the “KIRKHAM” lettering is upside down. The footboxes were extraordinarily complex. The front plate of the driver’s footbox alone had 77 holes drilled and …

The idea for Kirkham Motorsports started in 1994 with the mission to build the finest replicas in the world. It all began when David Kirkham was restoring the 427 Shelby Cobra CSX3104.

KMA=Kirkham Motorsports America; 5000 was the first serial number in the 5000 series; LJE are Larry Ellison’s initials. Only the body on Larry’s car was made in Poland.

Thomas Kirkham Jr. is a mechanical engineer and VP of Kirkham Motorsports. He spent seven years as a flight-test engineer in the Air Force in charge of instrumentation on experimental …

The little roadster that could. Adding a rumbling American V8 to a light weight aluminum bodied roadster is a successful recipe for performance. Many people forget that it was the 289 cars …

under a Kirkham body. We bought a Z06 Corvette but soon discovered we couldn’t shorten the leaf-spring suspension to the width of a Kirkham without too many angerous compromises. …

Over the years Kirkham Motorsports has had the privilege to push the limits of custom car building. From our pure copper 40 Ford replica, the "Billet Car" manufactured with a all billet …

Napoleon Bonaparte The under-car exhaust was a huge challenge. Original side pipes are relatively easy, as all you need to do is cut holes in the body and run the pipes out. An under …