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Buyer's Guides: Step away from normalcy with one of these cars

With an oddball, you’ll never pass yourself on the open road, and at car shows you are less likely to be pinned down by some self-professed expert.

Restoration & Renovation: Replica vs. Real: Superformance MKIII and the Shelby Cobra

Can today’s replicas hold a candle to the genuine articles?

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Valkyrie ressurection, GT40-ish kit car
Fiberfibuilt on triumph
Electric SuperCar
Two Locost Seven Frames and Various Parts $1000 - NMNA - FBM - Romulus, MI (Detroit suburb)
Talk me out of it or enable me

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Nov 30, 2019 by pugboy
1991 None Exomotive Exocet

My Exocet race car has the guts of a 1991 Miata, but features a built engine with a Disco Potato turbo, Flyin Miata FOX suspension, adjustable control arms all around, …

Feb 09, 2020 by TexAg71
1981 None MP Lafer

Brazilian roadster, factory-built from 1974 to 1989 in Sao Paolo. Approximately 4,300 built in total. Style inspired by MG-TD, but with fiberglass body on VW Type 1 frame. Powered by …

Oct 16, 2018 by FE3tMX5
2013 Kit Car & Replica Roadster Zero-E

Built from bed frames, jogger strollers and scrap car parts for gravity races (sort of like GRM Challenge soap box derby).

Mar 09, 2018 by veek
2002 Kit Car & Replica CAV GT40

In the early 1960s Ford Motor Company embarked upon a course to become a serious competitor in World Manufacturers' Championship racing. Possibly the most remarkable aspect of the GT40 was …

Mar 05, 2017 by turbo_bird
2014 Kit Car & Replica Locost

Ford V6, Mitsubishi 5 speed, Toyota axle and spindles, with a bunch of other random junk making up the rest of it. Started with a CMC frame after I found …

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Found a Kit Car & Replica in Nitro, WV on May 30, 2010

Unfinished unknown kit car , no engine visible, no interior. Just a roller.

Found a Kit Car & Replica in Nitro, WV on March 23, 2010

Looks to be a kit body of unknown brand. It has been parked beside a man’s workshop near Nitro, WV for years.

Found a Kit Car & Replica in Winthrop Harbor, IL on April 11, 2009

An old kit car (poor) copy of a GT40 called a Fiberfab Valkyrie, tube chassis, seized small block chevy, Corvair trans & suspension with Crown conversion. A poor man’s GT40?

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