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A glider kit is a term for a kit used to restore or reconstruct a wrecked or dismantled truck or tractor unit. All glider kits include a frame, front axle, and body . The kit may also contain other optional components. A motor vehicle constructed from a glider kit is titled as a new vehicle in the United States.
Just as easily, the kit could be removed and re-used on another truck, and this was used as a selling point. The retail price of NAPCO Powr-Pak kit in 1955 was $995. Many companies would install them, the price rising from $1250 to $1550 with labor, bringing the total price for a new GM pickup from $1,548.96 for 2WD to as low as $2,796.96 for 4WD.
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.
Smer – Longtime Czech producer of mainly plastic cars and trucks about 1:43 scale. Some kits. [27] SMTS – Scale Model Technical Services. Prolific white metal manufacturer, from Hastings, England, with their own range, also making brass masters for many other manufacturers, e.g. Conquest/Madison.
Tamiya entered the 1/72 market rather late by releasing its first kit in 1993 (see kit 60701). [23] However, this was a reboxed version of Italeri's F-16 and it would take until 2014 to design their own version of this jet (see kit 60786). Tamiya quickly got a large product line in this scale by reboxing more than 30 Italeri kits.
The Midas. A development of the Mini Marcos available as either a kit or fully assembled car. The Hustler 4. 356 SPORTS LIMITED Sprint Convertible, Sprint Coupe; ABC Tricar [2]: 6 (Built from 1968 to 1975 by Auto Bodycraft Conversions: William (Bill) Powell & Ken Heather at the Pensnett Trading Estate, Kingswinford, Staffordshire)
The Lomax is a British kit car produced since 1982 by several companies. It is a custom two-seater retro-style fibreglass body on a Citroën 2CV or Citroën Dyane chassis and components, and is available in three-wheeler and four-wheeler designs.
One 1962 kit, however, showed the company's prowess and intent - the "Big T" (kit PC 78). This was a huge 1/8 scale 1924 Ford Model T bucket, complete with hot-rodded Chevy engine. The 24-page 8 1/2 x 11 inch instruction booklet showed that the model came with an optional electric motor to power the wheels, and featured customizing tips by ...