Classic Car Kits

[ryansride2017]

For a hobby, I would love to build a full-size, driveable replica of a classic car from the late 60's to early 70's. A Camaro or Nova would do me just fine. I searched the internet and kits are available for older roadsters. You would think there would be quite a demand for such products out of the muscle car era. I imagine a kit car would have to be built with the latest in technology (air bags, OBII, emissions parts, etc.) but I assume the roadster kit cars have these upgrades.

As time goes by these great classics are increasingly harder to find at a decent price. While I consider myself somewhat mechanical, the step-by-step directions that come with a kit car would help me incredibly. Does anyone know of such kits?

 

[lindermant]

not a kit, but here's a place to get a repro camaro shell http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/classic.html

 

[ryansride2017]

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not a kit, but here's a place to get a repro camaro shell http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/classic.html

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That's extremely expensive not to include any mechanical parts or such!!

 

[Lonnie]

Those are great prices, considering what you are able to start with. I know people that have been sucked in on such projects and if they could hit a do-over button for one of those they'd hit it.

 

[Kestas]

Here's another one: http://www.1957chevybody.com/

I am keenly interested in these cars. But the prices are out of this world. Should they ever decide with overseas mass production on any of these cars, they may get the price down to earth.

 

[ryansride2017]

At those prices, I can forget about this idea.

 

[alreadygone]

Concidering tooling, employee training,low market size, seems like extreme bargains to me!,,,,Not that I could afford one though.

Bob

 

[Not the Autorx Frank]

Building a hot rod / Classic car is one of those things- "If you have to ask" you can't afford it. I made the mistake of building my 1st from the ground up. You are better off paying more for a clean in tact (rust free)vehicle and doing "projects' on it. If you start from scratch it can escalate quickly because you just want to get it going. I started w/ 30k and ended up spending close to 70k. i have a room full of trophies that cost me 70k lol.

 

[Steve S]

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For a hobby, I would love to build a full-size, driveable replica of a classic car from the late 60's to early 70's. A Camaro or Nova would do me just fine. I searched the internet and kits are available for older roadsters. You would think there would be quite a demand for such products out of the muscle car era. I imagine a kit car would have to be built with the latest in technology (air bags, OBII, emissions parts, etc.) but I assume the roadster kit cars have these upgrades.

As time goes by these great classics are increasingly harder to find at a decent price. While I consider myself somewhat mechanical, the step-by-step directions that come with a kit car would help me incredibly. Does anyone know of such kits?

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The lack of technology is what makes the old cars so nice.

 

[Gary Allan]

The prices are just nature's way of saying that too many people have access to too much money. My engine builder/wrench built a street rod. The labor was nothing for him ..but there was plenty of it. He already had the engine and trans. The fiberglass body had lots of adjustments that had to be made. His convertible top cost $2500 with lots of "learning curve" included in the fitment. Luckily, his paint scheme is nothing special. His color of choice, which is the same as when he raced, is bright yellow. No 25 coats of clear over some fancy stuff. He wasn't building it for "show" so to speak.

He has one customer that has built 4 street rods. All of them ended up being a fortune.

Here's two of them:

You can't see it ..but there's an off tone flame scheme on the fenders. I think that his paint job was $9000 over 5 years ago ..and was considered a 'good deal'.

He's now going through putting a Hemi in some 30's pickup.

That flathead roadster has injection now..but it looks like it has a set of trip's on it. Some outfit somewhere tucks three injectors inside a fancy piece.