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Has anyone built a kit car before? I absolutely love GT40s, and there are a bunch of places that sell kit versions of them.

In highschool a buddies dad had a cobra kit


It was a piece of shit,  there are some really good kit cars out there, you just have to find the right one.

I personally am going to build a beck 550 spyder at some point.

I put my vote in for anything Factory 5 builds.  They have their kits down pat.

<still saving up>

The trick to kit-cars is the fit and finish.  If the kit is good (you'll pay more $ for it generally but do some research first) then the finish bits are handled.  If the kit is shit....then a LOT of little stuff is left up to the final builder.  It's that little shit that can drive you bonkers.

Personally, I think Factory 5 has it down...but I have no FHE with them personally...

My brother in law has bought 3 in various stages of completion....mainly completed.  A Cobra with a 460 school bus motor in it, a Lamborghini Countach and some 250 hp dune buggy that would wheelie in second and was just plain scary!  I think he got really good deals through ebay and like I said, he just had to do basic stuff to bring them up to cool!  Theres also a kit car show in Carlisle PA that he goes to every year. 

He grew out of kit cars and recently built his own Gyrocoptor.....the boy aint right.

On a side note, I thoought the Lambo was awesome until I tried to install myself (get in the bloody thing) which literally took 3 minutes.  Extricating myself took about 5!

those are freakin awesome kit cars

I got a good look at the factory 5 lineup during the vintage races at road america a few years ago.  really nicely done, wouldn't mind having one in my garage

I'd like to build one of these...I think you can consider it a kit car

(http://autocars.setifaq.org/images/Caterham07.jpg)

^^^   ^^^   ^^^


Yeah man, this is what I'd get if I had the $$$/time/knowledge/space. There is one local to NZ which does a 7 replica, they have a good rep... http://www.fraser.co.nz/

Dude, they armor alled the tire tread?! WTF?

 ;:|

I hadn't even noticed that!

I could get rid of that armor all on the tires for them though...real fast like  :e:v

Nice spotting!    ;:|

I think armour-alled tread + empty runway = Awesomeness    :e:v

Those tires are sooo oily!!    pu::

I like the Factory 5 Daytona Coupe kits. Since only like 9 real ones were ever built, having one of those would be special. And cheaper too.

http://www.factoryfive.com/table/ffrkits/coupe/coupekit.html

If not a F5 kit, than a Beck Spyder.

http://www.beckspeedster.com/ourproducts/spyder550s.html

superformance is the beez kneez when it comes to cobra replica's, but I'm not sure it's available as a kit.

one of my dream cars!!!!

The superformance is nice, but you don't really build it. They also claim they are real shelby CSXs because they paid him a crapload of money to do so, that kinda irks me. The factory 5 seems to be of great quality and you can make it your own, not to mention it is cheaper if you do the work yourself. A lot of pride in craftsmanship of the owners and well deserved too.

Every Superformance kit owner ive ever talked to slammed that company and every one of them said they wish'd they'd bought a FFR kit (and advised me to as well :)  )

Kit Car Nationals in Carlisle PA May 16-18.

Factory Five will be there among many others.....

My brother is currently building a Factory Five kit.

From what I've seen, it is a very well thought out and constructed, very complete setup. I, for one, cannot wait to drive it.....