Ferrari Mailing List: Re: My Experience with a Kit Car Owner

[Britt2Asa (Britt2Asa]

I think this is a great topic.
When I was 15 I got a ride in a Kelmark that a boat owner had at a marina in 
St Augustine Florida next to my dads boat. Got me hooked on cars, on Dinos, 
and 2 years later I got in a real Dino. 

BTW - Why doesn't anybody ever get worked up about Replica Boats? Is there 
such a thing....Oh I couldn't afford a REAL Hunter Yacht so I built one.....No, 
a person like that would get great respect for having the ability to build 
their own boat....whys a car so different??

I would have loved to build or own a kit car when a teenager but couldn't 
afford it so I got a Triumph Spitfire which was easy to work on, easy to take 
apart and was everything a kit car would be except it was a "real" car.

I don't want a kitcar that much anymore but here in England its a BIG 
business. I have helped a good friend build TWO DAX Cobras which were very i
mpressive. Each cost the equilivant of £90k US Dollars and sold immediately for 
a 
profit....very high standard and in big demand when done right. The Ultima is a 
kit 
car and thats a pretty impressive car as well...

Havr you guys ever seen the Chesil Speedsters? http://www.chesil.co.uk/  Sold 
here ready to go for £25k or thereabouts and its a great looking little car; 
many owners use them every day and they are always featured at the big Classic 
and Sports Car Show at the NEC every year in Birmingham....

There is a company in Devon that makes a fantastic copy of a Jag SS100 with a 
fully detailed chassie pretty much identical to the real thing and then there 
are the GT40 copies (The GTD as well) which are probably the only way any of 
us will get to experience a car like that.

I don't really have a problem with kit cars/copy cars, ect. Hey if it floats 
your boat then why not? I wonder if it is something in us ferrari owners who 
see a copy of a Ferrari and think "Hey that guys cheating. He hasn't gone thru 
the pain and expense of ownership like I have yet everybody thinks he has the 
same class/money/style/(or whatever you think the car says about you) that I 
have"

Not for me but frankly we need more car buffs in the world before they are 
legislated away from us all into some kind of electric pile of crap. And I 
can't 
help thinking that if guys who build their own BOAT or PLANE are thought 
highly of, whats the difference with somebody who builds there own car...

Britt
BR in the UK
1986 328GTS (LHD 89,940km) Died August 19, 2006 Shrewsbury UK
1980 400i (RHD 72,000 miles)