Customer Projects

  Although this blog post is historically nearly six years old, we find customers like to review it when designing a bespoke windscreen wiper solution on a kit car or sports car front windows, which is good enough reason to revive it and add it to the new project's blog here at Arc Components.com.

  Peter landed at the online store with his ambition to restore his acquisition of a British Army FV432 armoured personnel carrier; from the outset, the rapport between the team and Peter was evident.

  It took several visits and solution discussions to the online store before the inevitable question "what the heck are you building, Alan?" arose; the answer was a little unexpected...

The 1953 MK1 FV1611b Humber 1 Ton Armoured Truck, better known as a Humber Pig, started life as a 1 Ton Pick-up truck and then the Army re-bodied it with the Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) body in 1959; it was designed to carry eight troops a vehicle commander and the driver.

"I got the idea into my head and then bought my donor car. The EG Honda Civic is the perfect platform for conversion to an electric car; the donor car itself wasn't the biggest expense in the project".