END OF KIT CARS? (Page 32/60)
Bloozberry MAR 04, 07:11 AM
My final words in all of this:

There's three ways this will end:

1. in the Trash Can;

2. Archived;

3. Wiith all of us (including Curly) deleting our disrespectful comments.

Curly can do as he wishes, but I suggest that to all the kit car and replica owners out there, that we remove option 1 from the table by no longer specifically replying to Curly's constructive criticism, or at all for that matter. I believe everything that needed to be said has been said more than once:

That leaves only only two possible outcomes for this thread:

1. Archived and untouchable forever (which I believe would serve us kit car owners well), or

2. The willful deletion of the "constructive criticism" starting with the one who began it. Everyone walks away with their own opinion and the hatred stops.
steve308 MAR 04, 07:13 AM
curly who?
F355spider MAR 09, 06:03 PM
So anyone have plans to build anouther kit car? I still want to build a 288 GTO. I am also looking at the profile of a 350Z and the V12 Vantage. Once I finish the wife's Fiero.
madcurl MAR 16, 12:41 AM

KVCFIERO MAR 19, 10:12 PM
Does anyone know anything about the black 308 kit car in Austin TX for sale?
exoticse MAR 25, 03:55 AM


Outdoing the original ! holy crap !!

Game over.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...KAAE&feature=related
madcurl JUN 07, 04:24 PM
http://autos.yahoo.com/blog...maker-200747320.html

"It's easy to find some poor sap who thought they could enjoy the attention of a Ferrari while driving around a Fiero with some extra fiberglass. But this conversion was clearly done by someone with an eye for proportion and detail; at speed, you'd be hard-pressed to spot the fakery as long as the top's not up or the owner slows down enough to let the plastic wood inserts shine."

Just another reason togo with your own design for many of the public are fully aware of fakery.
Bloozberry JUN 07, 06:06 PM
And there's absolutely no irony in you mocking people who crave attention in a "Fiero with some extra fiberglass".
jb1 JUN 08, 03:49 AM

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Originally posted by madcurl:


Dude, let me seriously school you for you don't have your facts straight. If you can go out and buy the parts "as-is"-then it's a kit. If you happen to be in a accident and need parts-that's a kit. On the other hand if you can't go out and purchase the parts "as-is"-that my friend is a one-off. If you are in a accident and you can't replace the parts "as-is"-that is/was a one-off part. Kit cars on the other hand are "kits" or replicas to which you can call the company and purchase the parts need for repair.
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sorry I have stayed out of this thread for a while, madcurl I have always respected you for your build and think you have done a great job with your car but with what you are saying I disagree completely.
If I take a fiberglass murci body and modify it to where it is a little different than the way it was bought you would not consider it a kit but a "one off"?
reason I ask is because just about every aspect of the body on your car can be bought from Archie or Norm but since you have made small changes it is not longer a kit but a "one off"..
I have owned couple " kit cars" and several stock body fieros, I think your car looks great but really no different than a " kit car". you took fiberglass panels made by a couple companies modified them to look somewhat different than they come and call it a "one off" call it what you want bash all the so called " kit cars" but at the end of the day there is no real difference in your " one off " and a " kit car" if it helps every one get along how about just go back to the old term of rebodies

[This message has been edited by jb1 (edited 06-08-2012).]

E.Furgal JUN 08, 09:27 AM

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Originally posted by bomaze:

I also got the notice in the mail about KIT CAR, the writing has been on the wall for some time as a majority of the articles have been based on Cobra replicas. Don't get me wrong I love the Cobra kits, but I have an keen interest in the Fiero based kits, which have been lacking in coverage the last few years save for an occasional Diablo kit now and then. With the loss of KIT CAR where will someone like me turn for info on Fiero based kits? I know some here may think it blasphemous to cut up a Fiero, but I have owned 4 Fieros and loved and continue to love the car, but it was the magazines such as KIT CAR that opened my eyes to Fieros at a young age. Just seems like an end of an era. Is this the end of Fiero based replicas as well?




LET ME SAY FROM THE GET GO> I DIDN"T READ THE 8PAGES ad it was a pissing match on the last page....

MY take is this ALL CAR MAGS are going away.. the internets news right here right now.. makes most NEW tech or stories, old by the time the mag hits the newsstand or your mail box.. as the volume goes down. their cost goes up per copy.. with tablets and smart phones.. paper media is all but dead..
as far as the KIT CARS themselves.. the fiero based ones are going as the base car is getting harder to find.. cheap.. no one wants to buy a 5k car to rip it apart..
KIT cars are not dead.. FFR is proof they have a cobra, a daytona ,a 33 ford .
THe company that sold street beast.. did no one any favors..
and lastly the commies that tell you what you can and can't do on your own land.. HOA are nazi's and way tomany new 'hoods have them in place..
kit cars dead.. na.. today is easier than EVER to build one.. want a 427 hp lsIII it's only a stop at your local g.m. dealer
the economy killed allot of companies... and kit cars where no different..
It be nice if some of the older kits,when the economy get back on it's feet. and do like FFR and build the chassis so the donor only needs to be had for it's parts not the whole car..
the trend of the rat rod also.. somewhat made the car hobbie cheap to get into for allot of people.. not talking the pro build rat rods..
the guy that buys a junker and builds a quick and dirty build.. and drives it..
really wish that TREND and the pantina tread came 15 years earlier. as I'd have driven the wheels off my 70 chevelle instead of try'n to restore it..
and ending up selling it without it ever turning a wheel under power..
kit cars are not dead.. the economy just isn't there for them to thrive..
someone needs to make a kit of the holden iffe