From the April 1998 issue of Car and Driver. The last time we built a kit car was one summer weekend in 1979. Okay, the pronoun should be they, since none of us was on the masthead back then ...

A kit car is a vehicle that is designed as components to be assembled after delivery. This can either be performed by a shop or by the customer and may or may not come with vital elements such as a ...

However, in the '70s and '80s, anyone could order a kit to build a car resembling this timeless classic. Classic Motor Carriages, Fiberfab, Tiffany Motor Cars, and more created DIY copies of the SSK.

But Ford's kit was "a little bit of smoke and mirrors," said Marc Davis, president of Moment Motor Co. in Austin, Texas. Moment Motor converts about 10 classic cars to EVs each year.

The classic kit car renaissance continues, and this Porsche-VW LaDawri Special tells a fascinating story of North America’s fiberglass sports car industry. Long thought lost to time, the one-off ...

Summit Racing sells headers for hundreds of classic cars and trucks, including their house brand kits as well as others from the likes of Hooker, BBK, JBA Performance, Hedman, Doug's Headers, and ...

EV conversion specialist Electrogenic developed a drop-in kit for the classic Mini models, offering a 60-hp motor and a 20-kWh battery. ... Jay Ramey grew up around very strange European cars, ...

The kits are created with convenience in mind - they feature a single-speed, fixed radio transmission and are capable of up to 6.6kW AC charging and rapid CCS (Combined Charging Systems) charging.

To convert a classic Camaro muscle car to all-electric would cost a customer about $70,000 for parts and $50,000 for labor for a total of about $120,000, he said.