What Is The Best Kit Car Ever Made

"Margin Of Error" (marginoferror) 01/26/2016 at 11:51 • Filed to: QUESTION OF THE DAY

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We, car enthusiasts, don’t usually like kit cars. Kit cars are most often trying to impersonate legendary cars by cutting corning corners here and there, a bit like a fake Timex watch from NYC’s Chinatown.

Some kit cars, however, are actually not bad at all, even interesting. What is the most insane kit car ever made ?

TheHondaBro > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 11:53

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We, car enthusiasts, don’t usually like kit cars

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Margin Of Error > TheHondaBro 01/26/2016 at 11:54

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I said usually, then asked for great kit cars.

Patrick Nichols > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 11:59

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I’ve heard good things about 818s...

Mercedes Streeter > TheHondaBro 01/26/2016 at 12:01

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Yeah! Those stupid kit cars! FWD also sucks, of course.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 12:04

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Wouldn’t call Fiskers kit cars, they’re really coachbuilds.

Great kit cars? Pretty much everything Factory Five has done, Caterham’s range of DIY Sevens, a lot of Locost builds, Ultima GTR, the Meyers Manx, Local Motors Rally Fighter...the list is long.

Margin Of Error > Patrick Nichols 01/26/2016 at 12:05

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yea verily

Patrick Nichols > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 12:09

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Time correct efforts from respectable manufacturers:

TheHondaBro > Mercedes Streeter 01/26/2016 at 12:15

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Unless it’s a Fiesta/Focus ST, of course.

TheHondaBro > Patrick Nichols 01/26/2016 at 12:16

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Doesn’t the Rally Fighter use body panels from the Honda Crosstour?

EL_ULY > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 12:18

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-Eduard Khil

Margin Of Error > EL_ULY 01/26/2016 at 12:20

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Looks like it’s missing some parts !

Mercedes Streeter > Patrick Nichols 01/26/2016 at 12:26

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Okay...so my mind is exploding right now.

HPE Velociraptor, with the rear end of an Excursion.

Why do I want this?!?!?!?

Master Cylinder > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 12:30

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Most of what Factory Five puts together is good stuff, from what I’ve read and seen of a couple completed Cobra kits. My friend is in the process of building a FF Cobra and it should be a fun little car when it’s done.

I’d love to put together their GTM Supercar or Type 65 (Shelby Daytona replica) one day.

As the type of car enthusiast who is probably more wrench than driver, I’m a fan of (well designed and well built) car kits. I still cringe at the tacky shit just like everyone else, though.

Porsche was my first word > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 13:05

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There are some good Cobras out there. But the best ever is this one:

Based on a C3 Corvette and made by McBurnie Coachcraft.

However

... In 2012 McBurnie sold his company to Carrera Coachwerks partners Theo Hanson and Alan Cassell. Anticipating a dispute with Porsche, the name was changed to Custom Coachwerks in 2013 or 2014. However, the El Cajon, CA shop was subsequently closed and assets divided by the partners.

McBurnie CC @wikipedia

Patrick Nichols > Mercedes Streeter 01/26/2016 at 13:09

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Because it needs to exist!

Seriously, people can complain about the excess of the excursions, but I never saw one not being utilized to its maximum capacity at least semi regularly. Playing hockey, I saw parents with 3-4 kids (plus their friends) arrive to games in one with all their equipment. I knew others that would use theirs to haul horse and car trailers plus the family (mom and daughter did equestrian and dad raced cars). The excursion should still exist for those that will use it and at then why not have a raptor version.

I have a feeling the conversion will be dying out now that the f-150 is aluminum.

Patrick Nichols > TheHondaBro 01/26/2016 at 13:12

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Not really sure how it could. Front and rear are different shapes. 2 door versus 4 door. The platform can’t even be the same since the LM RF is RWD and the crosstour is FWD/AWD.

RX > EL_ULY 01/26/2016 at 13:12

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That’s a tuner car. Not a kit car.

Mercedes Streeter > Patrick Nichols 01/26/2016 at 13:26

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I think the Excursion should still exist just for the sheer size of the thing. It’s one of those vehicles that are impressively large.

I expect a Hummer to be huge...but the Excursion has always been one of those SUVs that always make me go “woah, I don’t remember them being this big”.

boxrocket > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 13:52

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Shelby Cobra.

It’s an AC Ace with a different engine (and some other parts). Many kit cars are just vehicles short of an engine/transmission, so it fits.

not for canada - australian in disguise > Margin Of Error 01/26/2016 at 14:12

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Dude.

http://oppositelock.kinja.com/what-is-the-be…

Margin Of Error > not for canada - australian in disguise 01/26/2016 at 14:16

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God dammit !

Patrick Nichols > Mercedes Streeter 01/26/2016 at 14:23

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Especially when they’re running with the diesel engine. Just kind of has a presence.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > TheHondaBro 01/26/2016 at 22:38

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It does use Civic tail lights. I’d be surprised about the body panels.

TheHondaBro > BaconSandwich is tasty. 01/26/2016 at 22:38

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I’m pretty sure I heard Crosstour come up at some point, but I could be wrong.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Margin Of Error 01/27/2016 at 05:10

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Purvis Eureka.

MontegoMan562 is a Capri RS Owner > Margin Of Error 01/27/2016 at 12:10

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weight saving

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > Patrick Nichols 01/28/2016 at 14:24

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I like the 818C even better - bummer than these aren’t covered under the new replica law.

GRV > Margin Of Error 09/10/2016 at 12:36

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What is this car?