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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.
A homebuilt vehicle is a wider concept than a kit car. A homebuilt vehicle is a motor vehicle (car, truck or motorcycle) built by an individual instead of a manufacturer. [ 1 ] These machines may be constructed "from scratch", from plans, or from assembly kits.
Locust is a kit car inspired by the Lotus Seven. It was first developed in the mid 1980s as a cheap kit car to be built onto the chassis of a Triumph Spitfire, it was later developed into a full kit car which used its own fully designed ladder chassis - unlike others using space frame.
Founded by Haydn Davis the cars were at first of the "plan and pattern" car) type similar to the JC Midge. Like the Midge it uses a Triumph donor and constructs a body of plywood on top of it, i.e. a body-on-frame design. As of 2008, the plans have been made available again for home constructors. Reg of photo car shows as an NG kit
Puma (kit car company) Purvis Cars; Q. Quantum Sports Cars; R. Racing Plast Burträsk; Raw Striker; Reva (Swedish car) ... Template:Lotus Seven This page was last ...
Haynes Roadster is a replica of a Lotus Seven home-built car, according to the book Build Your Own Sports Car: On a Budget by Chris Gibbs (ISBN 1-84425-391-0). A Ford Sierra is used in the car as a donor for drivetrain and suspension components. The Haynes Roadster is a follow-up to the Locost design described in a book by Ron Champion.
They can be cheaper and faster to build than traditional homes because the exterior structures also typically come in a kit. HomeAdvisor puts the average cost to build a 2,400-square-foot ...
Open-source cars include: Completed and available to build, with link to CAD files and build instructions: LifeTrac tractor [1] from Open Source Ecology has build instructions for most revisions [2] Concept stage: Rally Fighter, an all-terrain vehicle by Local Motors uses a design released under a CC BY-NC-SA license. The design was made piece ...