Brabham BT62 to be road legal

Brabham Automotive has announced that it will begin offering a road legal conversion kit for its Brabham BT62 supercar.

The kit, priced from £150,000 ($A270,000), will be offered on top of the £1 million ($A1.8 million) Brabham already charges for the Brabham BT62 and includes raising the ride height, increasing the steering lock, adding air conditioning, door locks and an immobiliser.

Unfortunately, for the time being at least, the offer of a road-legal Brabham BT62 will be denied to Australian buyers.

Instead, European buyers will be the only ones able to take advantage of differing rules that allow single vehicle importation without expensive homologation and crash testing.

Claimed to have created the road-legal conversion kit in response to demand from its wealthy owners that they wanted to use their BT62s on the road, incredibly, Brabham has not been tempted to tame performance for use on public streets.

Weighing in only fractionally more than the race version's 972kg -- the 5.4-litre V8 carries over unchanged. That means the road-going BT62 produces the same 522kW and 667Nm of torque, translating to nothing short of ballistic performance.

On sale now, the road conversion will be carried out either in the UK or at Brabham's Adelaide-based factory in Australia, with the first road-legal Brabham BT62 set to hit European roads in around Q3 of 2019.

“We designed the BT62 to be an unrestricted, thoroughbred track car and our extensive test program has revealed it to be all of those things. This isn’t a car designed for the road. With that said, it’s clear some customers are keen to have a road compliant option with their BT62, particularly to drive to and from the track. My father Jack was always customer focused, and we will continue with that ethos,” said Brabham Automotive founder David Brabham.