Kit car...?

Question

I'm lookin for a kit car. I want either a Lamborghnin or a Ferrari kit. If it's a Ferrari kit, i prefer a Ferrari F360 kit. I want a COMPLETE KIT for a very reasonable price, and that i have to do very minimal work to do the conversion.

Answer 1

I own a shop, and do a lot of restoration & hotrod work. I hear what you are saying, but the fact of the matter is: There is just not that many companies out there that manufacture these type of kits, so that drives the price up, and the quality down. I don't think they are that complicated, and I don't agree with them being hard to put together. They could be intimidating to some, but everything is pretty straight forward, and they come with great instructions, as well as tech support. If you could purchase everything from one single company, it would be nice, but there are many different companies one must deal with in order to complete everything needed. An example would be the wiring kit would come from "Painless", The gages would come from "Autometer", and so on. If you want one that requires very miminal work, then look into one that you remove the body from an S-10 pick up truck, and drop the kit right onto the frame. You can keep everything from the S-10, and have the looks. Most kits only supply the body anyway, and its up to you to get your own frame, cut it to fit, and this can get pretty labor extensive. I'm not sure you are going to find everything in a bang up kit that is like a model car. Not to be smart, but to be honest; I don't think you will find it laid out like you want it, and the labor will get into hundreds of hours pretty easily. No one that I know of makes a complete kit (except the real thing) is why you can't find what you wish to. Sad, but true.
Glad to help out, Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

First, if you are looking for a kit car for something like an F360, or any mid-engined Ferrari or Lamborghini, you will wind up with a car that slightly resembles the Ferrari or Lamborghini. The wheel base on the Fiero is quite a bit different than any Ferrari or Lamborghini... and if you are looking for a complete kit with a reasonable price, you will be looking for something that goes onto a Fiero.

As for doing minimal work? The easy answer here is that you will need to pay someone to do the work, as in the end, building a car is not something that can be defined as "minimal." However, this will probably remove the reasonable price aspect when everything is considered.

If you want a kit that actually comes close to looking like a Ferrari, you will most likely want to look at kits that emulate the front engined cars from the 60s and 70s - these kits generally fit on Corvettes, which are relatively close in overall dimensions to the originals. There are a few companies that provide replica kits for some of the classic cars as well... these kits are often built as exact replicas, and as such, not based on any other car. However, they are more complicated to build (but sometimes can be purchased prebuilt for more money), and they are MUCH more expensive (often times rivaling the cost of a new Ferrari).

Answer 3

There has been trouble with "Trade Mark" infringement on these types of kits.
They are out there, but how the promotional material is written to avoid this makes it harder to find then a few years ago.
But what you are looking for is called a "rolling chassis", they will not be cheap.
The sad part is that while it may look like one, it will never be one.

Answer 4

No such thing as minimal work for kit cars. Building your own kit car is labor intensive and not for amateurs.