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Oct. 7, 2010 2:57 p.m. Keith SuperDork

Who here reads Classic Motorsports? Remember the "kit vs real" article from a few years back? If you haven't read it, it sounds as if you want to. There's also been at least one roundup of the Lotus 7 and variants.

This thread kinda reads like people are asking for a brand new kit car magazine that isn't just fawning "feature" cars. In other words, like most of the UK kit car magazines. The hard part about any US-based kit car mag is coming up with articles that aren't about Yet Another Bloody Cobra.
Oct. 7, 2010 3:31 p.m. snipes Reader

Keith wrote:

This thread kinda reads like people are asking for a brand new kit car magazine that isn't just fawning "feature" cars. In other words, like most of the UK kit car magazines. The hard part about any US-based kit car mag is coming up with articles that aren't about Yet Another Bloody Cobra.

Was thinking more along the lines of a one time article on the "mid engined super car things". I think the GRM prospective on these cars would be very entertaining. It's easy for a car to look cool in pictures and have big HP numbers, but they are not selling these cars as replicas of cars from the 60's they are saying that these cars are viable alternatives to the best/fastest car in the world. Are these cars any more than sexy (and fast) fiberglass on wheels.

Do the doors shut well, can you see out of the thing, does the engine cook you, do the mirrors fall off, does it feel like a car built in the 60's?
Oct. 7, 2010 3:41 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork

jstein77 wrote:

THIS!
Oct. 7, 2010 5:09 p.m. slantvaliant Dork

Appleseed wrote:

jstein77 wrote:

THIS!

Needs more cycle fenders.
Oct. 7, 2010 5:32 p.m. Keith SuperDork

snipes wrote:

Do the doors shut well, can you see out of the thing, does the engine cook you, do the mirrors fall off, does it feel like a car built in the 60's?

No, no, yes, yes - then yes

I can see what you're getting at. Unfortunately, so much of this is dependent on execution. There's a real skill to hanging doors properly, so the builder is going to determine how well that works. Same with the engine heat - there are ways to address that, which the builder may or may not want touch.

I'm pretty sure that, between GRM and CM, this has been addressed in some way or another in an article. Maybe not a roundup of all the various mid-engined kit/low volume cars on the market, but a group of various GT40s for example.