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Many bodykits take inspiration from the design of racecars. The roots of modern body kits go to the beginning of the first part of the 20th century. With the growing popularity of custom cars in America, many car enthusiasts were looking to alter the appearance of their vehicles in order to improve the performance characteristics or make their car look different from the others as a styling ...
The Mk IX Ikara, conceived in 1979, was a kit mid-engined sports car powered by a 1600cc Volkswagen Golf 4-cylinder engine. It utilized a space frame chassis and fiberglass body panels without doors. There were only 12 examples ever produced. [10] [11] Eleven of the vehicles survive, with one in need of restoration. Car #9 is missing. [12]
Fiberfab FT Bonito, a kit car on a VW Beetle chassis Locost frame and body panels 1972 Sterling Nova/ Purvis Eureka/ Eagle (South Africa). A kit car is an automobile available as a set of parts that a manufacturer sells and the buyer then assembles into a functioning car.
Toyota Auto Body was established on 31 August 1945 as a corporate spin-off of Toyota Motor Industry's Kariya plant [5] [6] with the name Toyota Auto Body Industries (トヨタ車体工業, Toyota Shatai Kōgyō). [6] [7] At first, it produced auto bodies for Toyota.
Vehicle structure has shifted from the traditional body-on-frame architecture to the lighter unitized/integrated body structure that is now used for most cars. [10] Integral frame and body construction requires more than simply welding an unstressed body to a conventional frame. In a fully integrated body structure, the entire car is a load ...
Tatuus F4-T421; Constructor: Tatuus: Predecessor: Tatuus F4-T014: Technical specifications [1]; Chassis: Carbon-fiber monocoque, fiberglass body: Suspension (front) Push-rod with twin non-adjustable shock absorbers, adjustable anti-roll bar and third element
The exterior is all new, with an "iconic wedge shape" design Toyota says is inspired by "the natural flow of air." The wheelbase is 1.98 inches longer than before, but overall length actually ...
The "Ferraris" used in the first two seasons were actually re-bodied Corvettes based on a 1976 Corvette (car 1) and a 1981 (car 4) Chevrolet Corvette C3 chassis that had been modified with fiberglass body panels by specialty car manufacturer McBurnie Coachcraft to resemble an early-1970s Ferrari Daytona Spyder.