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Below is an extract from Brian's site - to read more, please visit his kit car web site. Why? Why build a kit car anyway? What a dumb question. However, I am very much of the persuasion that if you are going to build a car anyway, then you better make sure that it is not like anything that you could have bought in a shop (or from Trade&Exchange). Because, lets face it, Toyota, Ford, Porsche and their cousies have put a lot of effort in turning out pretty sound products that do most of what you could ask for pretty well. And they don't really cost all that much. So there is limited satisfaction in investing several thousand hours in making something that you could have bought anyway. There has to be another reason. Why I like building cars is that it gives you a blank canvas (or in my case, more a back of an envelope really) to indulge yourself with any flight of fancy that you might have. What are we actually talking about here? The Road Rat is a minimalist space frame car, two seats, no roof, mid engine, built mostly from 60's and 70's VW parts. The body is 7ish, with aluminium flat panels on the sides, front cycle guards, fibreglass nose-cone, rear guards and "boot" lid, and a curved textured aluminium rear transom. |
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Howmush didid coshcha tabildid then? A very important question. Always comes up early in the roadside chat, just after "What motor have you got in it?". The answer is - probably about NZ$20 per week. This car took me seven years, and this period included a lot of down time, and a lot of other things going on. There were no big expense items but a lot of stuff was bought and not used. The biggest single expenditure was the four alloy wheels at NZ$200 each. There were a lot of things that cost about NZ$100. But basically it is cheaper to build a car than it is to smoke cigarettes. Car Spec. Year started: 1992, Year finished: 1999 |
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