Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Also if it was real I’m sure it would live in air conditioning not an open sided barn.

Leaving aside the fake/repro discussion.

If you're not going to do the interior, why on earth would you put fake badges on it?

To trick your Airbnb guests into thinking you own a 10 mil car...(but still need the money from renting out a room in your gaff)

For what its worth, I know somebody with a net worth of over $100m who makes and sells jam for spending money. Cash flow problems aren't reserved solely for the poor.

I was talking about this with a pal. The Cali looks great.

There is a 250 gt California spider (swb & lwb), but there was never a 250 gt swb without a roof.

Finally caught up with a couple of Chris Harrississ's podcasts, could listen to Harry Metcalfe talk for days

If I was making a kit car ferrari (or anything) I'd definitely put badges on it.

Do people not usually do that?

This is some weird synchronicity because my pal just sent me a link to a hilarious MX-5 based 250GTO

There are only two acceptable kit cars IIRC and that's a Cobra and a GT40, it's almost more weird to have a real one, why spend the money when everyone's going to assume there's a Sierra XR4i underneath

“Is it a real Dax, Mr?”

Being completely stupid on these things, isn't a real one metal and the fake one plastic?

This is possibly the most annoying way to design a website I've yet come across:
http://www.p4bynorwood.com/

It’s the whole kit car/copy argument. You can get both, if you have enough coin.

Look at this (I get a little bit excited over this): https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303251260850

Or this:
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323926428633

Not necessarily. There are some very good alloy bodied replicas, particularly C-types and Cobras, and some genuine exotica had GRP bodies such as the early 308GTBs, the GRP bodied ones being more sought-after than the later steel ones due to being lighter and rarer.

Look at this (I get a little bit excited over this): https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=­https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm­%2F303251260850

Bet that's not properly registered. Should have been through an IVA test if it's based on a 400i, but DVLA has it as a 'Ferrari Coupe'. Could be wrong, but I suspect that would end up on Q plates if DVLA ever got wind of it given it allegedly has a first date of registration from 1979.

I am not big into cars, but I need a little lie down after looking at them.

I did an internship at a kit car company many years ago, we took the car we built to a show and they had live demos of them forming panels for a aluminium cobra, i think it was Kirkham (which i think is part of Hawk who do the Stratos kits)

they were unbelievably well made full ally bodies, super nice.

six hundred and forty grand :|

I did an internship at a kit car company many years ago, we took the car we built to a show and they had live demos of them forming panels for a aluminium cobra, i think it was Kirkham (which i think is part of Hawk who do the Stratos kits)

they were unbelievably well made full ally bodies, super nice.

The place I used to get my custom exhausts made - Custom Fabrications in Attleborough in Norfolk - used to do custom alloy bodies for repairs and custom builds (and may well still do so). Watching those guys gas weld thin aluminium sheets was quite something. No distortion, barely any work needed to finish the weld, and they would do it while making rude comments about whatever I'd brought in.

I meant that when the interior of that person's kit car is so blatantly from the late 90s but the outside is 60s, they're not fooling anyone. Either do the interior or leave the badges off.

But then maybe they haven't got around to sorting the interior.

Sort of in the vein of kit car / repros I loved Keith Tanner’s V8 MG GTB-MX5-LS1:

http://www.britishv8.org/MG/KeithTanner-MGBGT.htm

Pretty sure his build blog is out there somewhere which I wasted days reading through.

Aah - yes. I thought we were still on the yellow one at the Airbnb.

And the Ghibli without an engine appears to be a real Ghibli without an engine...

They HAVE to have a side income for spending money, or choose to because its fun? I understand your point though. I was being a little facetious :)