What a fantastic idea! I remember watching [url=
A Car Is Born[/url] on TV years ago as a kid a being fascinated by it. I hope at some point I have a house with a garage or space to build a kit car. Just about have enough room in the flat to work on bikes.
I'm guessing it's fairly hard to buy a part built kit and carry on, as you need to be competent enough to know what they have and haven't done, and what might need to be redone
That's why unfinished projects carry a degree of risk. Unless you know the builder well you have no knowledge of the quality of work, whether something's been bodged to fit rather than figuring out why it doesn't fit, parts missing completely etc. The first time you may know of a problem is when you present it for it's SVA inspection and the tester says fail. Know of one guy who did his own Cobra replica build and the fail item (something to do with the fuel system) meant basically stripping it down and starting again 😯
Me n the BIL looked at GBS Zero version, which I think evolved from the old Robin Hood kit. About £2500 for the spaceframe chassis, suspension, electrics & body panels, which then use a mk1/mk2 Mazda MX5 for engine, gearbox and other donor parts. I think realistically it could be done for around £8k all in, but there's be a fair bit of work involved in stripping/renovating the donor MX5, plus you'd need space for two cars. The Zero looked to be very well engineered though, and the GBS factory is a full on car manufacturing plant. They will (for about £19k) provide every single thing for a complete build if you want. Their Duratec engined test car was an absolute hoot as well.
If I had space in my garage, i.e it was a double garage and I hadn't filled that space with more crap, this would be a great project!
I think that ther is the major barrier for most of us! The garage I have is barely big enough for a car before I filled it with crap (and bikes and fun stuff).
