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May 16, 2011 · The whole kit car industry and all buyers disagree with both you and weary microbe. I've also built multiple kit cars and numerous dune buggies off the VW pan. I've done a whole lot more than just look at a VW pan. If it tweren't for the body (such as when you put a fiberglass kit car body on it) the pan would flex all over the place.
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Aug 15, 2023 · The car won local slaloms outright and he also ran it in hill climbs. It used to drive the local nose in the air types crazy when it beat their Porsches and such. I don't have any unfinished kit cars, just the Fiberfab Jamaican that I did finish. One of the few kits car bodies that look like it was designed for a real rather than kit car.
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Apr 7, 2021 · Very few kit cars succeed in that - the Datsun 240Z based Ferrari GTO kit is one exception, and I think my Jamaican body is another. It used a 1960s Corvette windshield, a 911 rear window and Karmann Ghia side glass - all of which somehow comes out looking as if it were a regular car, not a bitsa.
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Apr 13, 2012 · Sir William Towns, bust known as the stylist of Aston Martins in the 70's including the wonderful V8 and eerr interesting Bulldog went on his own into the Kit car industry. He produced many variants of his Hustler them. Most were Mini based with a simple perimeter chassis and flat sided fiberglass bodies.
Rebodied car title question - Grassroots Motorsports
Oct 20, 2017 · Based on my continual Kit Car musings, if you were to reuse the entire chassis & drive train I believe you could then title it as a rebodied (whatever you started with). If you were using the original car as a donor and bolting the parts to a custom chassis (tube frame), then you would have to title it as a special construction.
VW kit car fiberglass body $500 - Grassroots Motorsports
Jun 23, 2022 · VW kit car fiberglass body $500. stroker PowerDork 6/23/22 9:26 p.m. Fort Smith, AR NMNA . NOT A TA ...
What is your favorite oddball kit car? - Grassroots Motorsports
Aug 23, 2021 · Definition of "kit" needs to be nailed down, since I tend to look at most interesting cars as a kit car. My current fleet is an amalgamation of several cars: 1973 Porsche 914 with 302 whp Subaru engine & modded Suby transaxle, a 1985 BMW 524td getting an M54B30/5sp manual swap (on the lift right now!), and we recently swapped a Tiburon 2.7L V6 into our 2005 Hyundai Elantra 24 Hrs. of Lemons car.
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Here's another product of the kit car field of dreams (and tears): "race-car inspired" What kills be is that back in the 90s he was able to get custom DOT-compliant windshields made up for $750 or so each. Now that's more along the line of 5 grand each.
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Jul 21, 2018 · The pic of an ad says it's based at least on a modified version of the Type 3 suspension; I'd have to guess it sits on a Type 3 pan? I'd be pretty dubious about hanging a V8 off the back of that thing. There's an Australian VW-based kit car FB group, and a discussion there suggests early-70s Alfa 105 series as the source for the windshield.
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Aug 30, 2023 · To my eye, the Jamaican is one of the few kit car bodies that looks like it was an actual car, and sadly, not satisfied with that, many owners start hacking the bodies up to make them look 'better' in their eyes, adding flairs, usually non-functional hood scoops, wings etc.