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Fiberfab was purchased by competing kit car maker Classic Motor Carriages and registered as Fiberfab International Inc. on 27 May 1983. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] CMC acquired all of the Fiberfab kits and molds except the Valkyrie, and stored them behind their Miami manufacturing facility unused until they were eventually scrapped.
The Dakar was developed in 1991 by Barry Chantler of Dakar Cars in Dartford, Kent. A successor to the Rotrax, the Dakar uses a Range Rover chassis rather than the more conventional sports car style. The Rotrax was a RWD 2-seater buggy built on a space frame chassis using Cortina suspension and engines.
One of the famous custom cars in the classic American custom style, the Hirohata Merc [1] A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been altered to improve its performance, change its aesthetics, or combine both. Some automotive enthusiasts in the United States want to push "styling and performance a step beyond the showroom floor - to truly ...
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.
A kit car must pass its MOT test and have a valid car tax, or have a valid Statutory Off-Road Notification (SORN) declaration. As part of the IVA, a kit car can sometimes be permitted to assume the age of a single, older car (the donor car) if the major parts were taken from it in its construction. [8]
The Deora is a 1965 Dodge A100 pickup truck that was heavily customized by Mike and Larry Alexander in Detroit for the 1967 Detroit Autorama. Harry Bentley Bradley designed the Deora and helped with the build process. After winning many awards, including the Ridler in 1967, it became the prototype for a Hot Wheels car, and plastic model kit. It ...
The DRK is a three-wheeled kit car produced by DRK Kits of Ellesmere Port, England, between 1987 and 1998. [1] The car was introduced at the Cheshire Kit Car show in May 1986, where its positive reception prompted the formation of the company to build it. [2] [a] The car has a two front wheels, one rear wheel configuration, with front-wheel drive.
Other television cars built by Barris Kustom Industries include the Munster Koach and the DRAG-U-LA for The Munsters, [7] [8] [9] an Oldsmobile Toronado turned into a roadster used in the first season of Mannix, a 1921 Oldsmobile touring car turned into a truck for The Beverly Hillbillies, the fictional "1928 Porter" for the NBC comedy My ...