The latest company to throw its hat into the restomodding ring is the U.K.’s Caton, a newly formed company that aims to sympathetically renew classic vehicles and evolve them for the modern age. To do that, it is teaming up with industry experts Envisage Group.
The group may not be known to you and me, but as a supplier for luxury automakers, it is renowned within the industry. The group has long worked on production vehicles as well as on smaller projects to create continuation cars, so it is uniquely placed to work with Caton on this project.
“Caton will stand on its own, as a specialist brand, inspired by precision engineering,” said Tim Strafford, CEO of Caton’s strategic vehicle building partner, Envisage Group. “It will offer ultra-exclusive, highly-aspirational British-designed products within the automotive sector and beyond. This exciting new brand will demonstrate what is possible when design and technical development are pushed to the highest possible levels with exceptional luxury creations.”
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Caton – the new leader in luxury products – coming soon.
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Together, the twi companies will work to make enhancements to iconic products with an emphasis on restraint. Caton says it will be guided by the question, “What would the original creators have done had they had the latest technology and manufacturing methods at their disposal?”
For its first project, the new company will take on an iconic two-seater British sports car from the 1950s. To start the project, it created a full digital model of the car’s body and will use ultra-accurate CNC machines to create tooling that will enable it to operate at tolerances of 0.2mm. It’s not all newfangled whizzbangery, though, the team will also employ the old-fashioned English Wheel to hand form aluminum panels for the vehicle.
“It is this fusion of exceptional precision with the very best in hand-building expertise that makes Caton unique. We use the best possible harmony of tools and techniques; past, present, and future,” said Strafford.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until Caton’s first project makes its debut at the Salon Privé London, which runs from April 21 to 23, before we find out more about this reimagination of a ’50s icon. The company does say, though, that the car has been subtly evolved to make it more user-friendly, more performant, and more modern while adhering rigidly to its DNA.
“We can’t wait to take the wraps off Caton’s first product,” concludes Tim Strafford. “It is an exciting precision reincarnation of an icon, one that will set new standards in coachbuilding. But whatever project Caton undertakes, be it the evolution of a classic or a contemporary product, we will leverage the best possible technology, skill sets, resources, and partners to set new standards across the industry.”
