ChazSXi
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Registered: 26th Jan 03
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What is the cheapest kit car that you can get?! second hand or new?! like a caterham lookey like or two seater kit car..with a 1.6-1.8-2.0 engine cheers!!!
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
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I used to have a kit car called a Lomax - had 2 wheels at the front and one at the back - based on an old Morgan.
Had small engine but had a straight through exhaust and sounded and looked the bollocks!
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luca2020
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Registered: 26th May 02
Location: Maidstone, Kent
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go and buy a kit car mag, then look in the back pages, theres allways loads for sale, i was quite interested in this route for my next car 
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Tiger
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This is the Lomax
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ChazSXi
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just wanted something interesting to do and learn a bit more about mechanics so thought a cheap kit car could be what im after!
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Tiger
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These are cheap if you can find one - the engine is so light one person can lift it in and out and the whole bonnet comes off so there easy to work on. The donor car is a 2CV so parts are next to nothing.
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mike16v
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a mate of mine builds astin martin lookalikes, there built onto a metro
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mattyboy199
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kit cars can be very fast & handle like a dream, mostly based on power to weight i want one to
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Ian
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http://www.robinhoodengineering.co.uk/
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bradfincham
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Registered: 20th Sep 02
Location: East Of England Drives: Clio 172
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basically as for cheapness and caterham replica
your looking at a locost or a robin hood,
there based on a sierra donor car,
if you buy kit car mag, and see the stuart taylor advert that is my dads kit car - pics in my garage of it,
2.0 pinto engine will be cheapest to build
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ChazSXi
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what kinda performance are they delivering and how much roughly are they goin for??
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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best bet is to get a kit car mag, something like which kit. There are always loads of unfinished projects in the back which are usually good value, so would get yourself one of those!
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bradfincham
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thats my dads car as seen in the mag every month,
a 2.0 pinto in a locost or robin hood will be from £500 - £8k
depends on build spec,
handling on some are bad needs coilovers and best to speak to a locost race driver, most companies are really helpful in this industry
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ChazSXi
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quote:
Originally posted by Cosmo
best bet is to get a kit car mag, something like which kit. There are always loads of unfinished projects in the back which are usually good value, so would get yourself one of those!
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Scott
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Registered: 11th Mar 01
Location: Kilmarnock,Scotland
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my m8 audi tt out of a metro
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Tiger
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Registered: 12th Jun 01
Location: Leicestershire Drives:Astra VXR
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Noble Kit cars is two miles from where i live - didnt they break the speed record for a kit car?
I used to work nearby and sit and watch them work on the cars in my lunchbreak
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