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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.
When kit car production slowed down towards the end of the 1990s McDonald began to look for alternatives. Graham Berry had a completed chassis for a Lotus Seven–based car. His intention was to a cheap kit car that could be built for less than $10,000. The kit used Mark 1 or 2 Ford Escort parts and was launched through Classic Car magazine in ...
The basic 'starter kit' for the Superbug started as little as £995, but for all the extras to finish the car it would cost £1495. In 2000, this was the cheapest kit car on sale and it therefore sold very well for the four years it was on sale.
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.
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.
In North America, the Toyota Corolla and Mazda Miata are popular donor cars, as are the Ford Fox platform cars. The Wankel engine-based Mazda RX-7 is also starting to become popular. Many different companies make and sell parts and complete kits for building the car.
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The front and rear screens were not in the kit, but could be sourced as the rear screens of 1970s Vauxhall estate cars. The kit was produced from 1975 to 1976. The design changed several times throughout the production run of less than 20, including restyling of the rear end, and the provision of separate engine cover, headlight covers ...