Thread: Kit cars
View Single Post
Old 08-23-2015, 06:12 PM   #2
Tcoat
Senior Member
 
Tcoat's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2014
Drives: 2020 Hakone
Location: London, Ont
Posts: 69,838
Thanks: 61,656
Thanked 108,295 Times in 46,456 Posts
Mentioned: 2499 Post(s)
Quote:
Originally Posted by pushrod View Post
I'm starting to think that my quest for RWD + good handling + power to weight will lead me down the path of building a kit car. Does anyone here have any experience with kit cars? I'm especially interested in hearing from people that have completed cars and drive them regularly.

The Shelby Daytona Coupe and the Lotus 7 are the ones I'm most interested in (for now...).
My uncle had an old Lotus kit car. They look like the original but it ends there. If you could have all the features of the original for the price of a production chassis and fiberglass body the real thing would not cost so much. You will never get even close the real features from a kit no matter how much some owners will tell you.


If you want average people to stare at you going down the road, car guys to laugh at you going down the road and to spend loads of cash then a kit is for you.
__________________
Racecar spelled backwards is Racecar, because Racecar.
Tcoat is offline   Reply With Quote