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5 comments to "DIY Kit-Car."
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Sid Morrison
June 25th, 2007 at
1:56 pm
Nice 1930s Benz-ish styling, but for that kind of cash, 50cc is nowhere near enough nads for this thing! Where can you take a car that only goes 30 mph?
If you want to built a *real* sportscar on the cheap, look to something like a Locost (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locost) or one of the myriad of other Lotus-7 knockoffs. Why end up with a 30 mph gokart, when you can build a road-worthy real car? Straight talk from Sid.
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Lu
June 25th, 2007 at
2:30 pm
As Sid already said, I think the most well-known Lotus 7 kit-car knock-off is the Caterham Super 7: http://www.caterham.co.uk
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Sid Morrison
June 25th, 2007 at
2:47 pm
Yeah, the Caterham is way way way sweet, but I didn’t mention it since you aren’t going to do one for anywhere near $6K. Actually, Caterham owners would get a little miffed at calling it a “Lotus-7 knock-off”, since Caterham actually purchased the rights to continue the marque from Lotus in the 1970s. The rest are knock-offs, whilst the Caterham is a “continuation” of the marque… Which is partly why it costs more!
Make mine British Racing Green with a yelow bonnet. And, I’ll take the “clamshell” fenders as mine as well. Anyone ever watch “The Prisoner”? Definitely a Neato TV show in its day! -
Chris
June 25th, 2007 at
11:57 pm
well, i don’t care, i don’t fit in any of those…
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Carter
June 26th, 2007 at
8:51 am
This is obviously for the “in-town” commuter around Tokyo, though considering the traffic, not sure I would feel very safe in that. For the price and the market I think they are going after it is perfect. Would work in as long as the weather stayed nice I guess. Rains and even snows in Tokyo. Not my idea of a comfortable comute to work even if it were only a few blocks in that stuff and no roof.
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