Kit cars certainly fill a need in the "customs" market, but it's like the reason I quit going to the big car shows. When you've seen one fiberglass '34 Ford, Cobra, Healy etc, you've seen them all. Mostly monkey see, monkey do in everything from color and interior to engine/tranny combos.
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Stuff my dog says; on second thought I'll just build a race car
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One thing about my job is it turns you into a car show snob too. When you're around genuinely nice custom cars all day the stuff at you average cruise in starts looking very suspect rather than very cool. It's kind of disheartening in a way.
The kit car thing though is like most of the aftermarket chassis I see in that they're just a collection of sub systems from other vehicles rather than an engineered product. Generic front suspension A mated to generic rear suspension B by a couple frame rails of length Y and call it a day. Nothing actually taken in to account of suspension or steering geometry just "well this should work" and then they call it a performance part. Like that kit car we had here was a bunch of Mustang and Mustang II parts put under a car that has little in common with either donor vehicle so you know none of it was really right for the Cobra body.
For most of the people who buy those that's all they want. It looks like a Cobra and is loud and will spin the back tires. I used to want one too so I get the appeal, but it just takes more to impress now.
That being said going to a show and seeing rows of bone stock identical Corvettes and Mustangs that are less than 25 years old is just boring period.
Sadly, I too have become a car show snob. I spent 17 years working for Brumos Racing and we raced current and vintage Porsche's and had a huge collection of classic cars. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean
Gotta stop here for the night, REALLY want to do those corners pieces too.
It's really starting to come together!
No new work, I did stay a bit more last night and cleaned up a couple welds and sanded the two pieces. So pictures of that, plus a couple new angles and some close ups of the transition around that roll bar over the driver left shoulder.
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I was really set on doing a flathead V8 in a kit chassis and body (34 coupe?) in my retirement. I got derailed with a silly XS650 tracker
One thing about it, motorcycles are absolutely the cheaper optionI was really set on doing a flathead V8 in a kit chassis and body (34 coupe?) in my retirement. I got derailed with a silly XS650 tracker
I have a vision problem that shortened my timeline.
Cheaper, take up less space, most thing don't require a "second set of hands".........
"SAVAGE KRE8V MEDIA" on Instagram took some nice pictures of my car and allowed me to share them, so here they are.
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Well, I was thinking I could do some good stuff this weekend but with the weather and not feeling 100% the last couple days I've simply been in bed today. No point to go out in the cold and ice though.
Back working today
Rear side work
Interested to see where that last picture is going!
Those were trying to define the hoops over the axle, pictures were in sort of reverse chronological order.
Got the other side on too. Oxygen sensor is somewhat more difficult to get out now than it was last time I had the exhaust off. Can get it loose setting in the seat but only just and you have to kind of taconyourself to do so.
Ah. Thanks!
