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NOV 19, 09:10 PM
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Just a little primer......
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Fierostarvin
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NOV 19, 10:01 PM
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It's really eye opening the all the little details required to put a car like this together.
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Archie
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NOV 20, 01:15 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Fierostarvin:
It's really eye opening the all the little details required to put a car like this together. |
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Yeah, I know.... everything from engine choice to what type of screw is going to be needed to attach a dew wipe.
It's hard to understand that when building a car like this, you have a lot of details to take care of that no one thinks of when they see the car sitting across the parking lot from them.
"It's just a POS kit car" is what they'll say.
Archie[This message has been edited by Archie (edited 11-20-2009).]
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Mr.PBody
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NOV 20, 02:05 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Archie:
"It's just a POS kit car" is what they'll say.
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Isn't this a Prova/Parallel Kit? IIRC Prova was approved by the Lamboghini factory when they first molded this kit. That's about as legit as a kit gets.
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Archie
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NOV 20, 07:56 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Mr.PBody:
Isn't this a Prova/Parallel Kit? IIRC Prova was approved by the Lamboghini factory when they first molded this kit. That's about as legit as a kit gets.
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That wasn't my point.
It wasn't about a legit kit or not.
My point was that no matter how much work, skills & details you go thru to build a car like this, there's always someone who will be hating on it without even considering what it took to build it.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
If you read the whole thread, you'll see that the stuff we got from the U.K. was just a body with very poor fiberglass that moved all over the place. It is a Prova/Parallel body ...... but I doubt that any factory would have endorsed what we got in our crate.
Archie[This message has been edited by Archie (edited 11-20-2009).]
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Sofa King
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NOV 20, 08:08 AM
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The Aura
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NOV 20, 11:14 AM
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WOW! I don't post a lot here anymore, just lurke... but Archie, this is top notch attention to detail... the kind of craftsmanship and detail work that make it a road going replica... not just a kit car.
Amazing work!
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Mr.PBody
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NOV 20, 12:27 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Archie:
That wasn't my point.
It wasn't about a legit kit or not.
My point was that no matter how much work, skills & details you go thru to build a car like this, there's always someone who will be hating on it without even considering what it took to build it.
I'm sure you know what I mean.
If you read the whole thread, you'll see that the stuff we got from the U.K. was just a body with very poor fiberglass that moved all over the place. It is a Prova/Parallel body ...... but I doubt that any factory would have endorsed what we got in our crate.
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Are you sure it came from parallel then? I talked to the guy who owns it a long time ago, they had to change the bodywork to get it to pass SVA, so now its some ugly miura based thingy, but the glasswork looks decent. Prova changed hands like 3 times, not sure who may have made that kit. Now you do know the Parallel kit isn't designed to take an original windshield and on their site they show the required glasswork. Btw not trying to hate here, just telling you what I know.[This message has been edited by Mr.PBody (edited 11-20-2009).]
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Archie
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NOV 20, 12:43 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Mr.PBody:
Are you sure it came from parallel then? I talked to the guy who owns it a long time ago, they had to change the bodywork to get it to pass SVA, so now its some ugly miura based thingy, but the glasswork looks decent. Prova changed hands like 3 times, not sure who may have made that kit. Now you do know the Parallel kit isn't designed to take an original windshield and on their site they show the required glasswork. Btw not trying to hate here, just telling you what I know.
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From what I've been told this is the body they had to design to be approved & keep from being sued by Lamborghini.
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Archie[This message has been edited by Archie (edited 11-20-2009).]
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Mr.PBody
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NOV 20, 03:40 PM
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Thats the Miura Concept from a couple years ago, it may have influence the new parallel body. SVA put restrictions on things like lighting which is where part of the re-design came from.
Years ago Prova was approved by the Lamborghini factory to build repicas, I think the initial approval was over the countach which Parallel does not produce anymore, but the Miura was also part of that approval. Some pretty nasty Essex based Miuras came out of the 80s, the Prova kit was the best I've seen.
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