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A survey of nearly 600 kit car owners in the US, the UK and Germany, carried out by Dr. Ingo Stüben, showed that typically 100–1,500 hours are required to build a kit car, depending upon the model and the completeness of the kit. [5] As the complexity of the kits offered continues to increase, build times have increased.
It was a less expensive alternative to the Fiberfab Valkyrie, which looked like an Avenger GT with a short rear deck and had a custom chassis with room for a mid-mounted V8 engine. [2] Fiberfab started producing Avenger GT kits in Sunnyvale, California in Santa Clara County in 1966. [3] They moved to Fremont, California in 1967.
The company started building street rod parts and body panels for Corvettes, Mustangs, and Jaguars before moving on to complete bodies and kit cars. Noel Johnson was a Fiberfab employee who later became part owner of the company. [4]
The car was a radical evolution from the Star and Leader models, dropping the Viva donor car in favour of purpose-built suspension and lighter bodywork. The car was aimed at two markets, the home car builder that required an economical kit that could be built using readily available mechanics tools and the more demanding race car builder who favoured good handling and simple design.
Hi-Tech Automotive is a low volume, specialist car builder and design house located in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. [1] Most of the vehicles produced are exported, notably to the US and UK . The main distributor of the cars built by Hi-Tech is Superformance .
In 1964 George Barris asked Dean to run the famous Barris Kustom City. His work with Barris included many notable cars, including the Surf Woody (designed by Tom Daniel), the X-PAK 400 floating air fan car, and cars for television shows such as the Munster Koach and Dragula for The Munsters, and cars for Beverly Hillbillies and Mannix.
Blakely Auto Works (also called Bernardi Auto Works in later years) was a manufacturer of automobiles and of kit cars, working from premises located in a series of US midwest communities, including Princeton, Wisconsin, in the 1970s and 1980s. Blakely produced several kit car models, the Bantam, Bearcat, and Bernardi.
On March 4, 2020, Custom Crafted Cars and Carolina Vaydor reached an agreement to re-launch Vaydor kits to the public. While Custom Crafted cars continues to manufacture complete high-performance Vaydor Supercars, Carolina Vaydor is the exclusive world-wide dealer for Vaydor Body Kits that do-it-yourselfers can build themselves. The Vaydor was ...