Though the seller doesn’t impart a lot of details about this kit car, it appears to be a Cheetah from the 1960s. We saw it about six months and (apparently) it didn’t sell then. It has moved up from… more»
Kit Cars
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V8 Kit Car: 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 Sebring
Kit Cars are typically a hit-or-miss affair, with build quality a lucky dip, depending on the skills of the person bolting them together. Therefore, I must say a big thank you to Barn Finder T.J. for spotting one that… more»
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1 of 86 Foxbody Customs: 1991 Mitsuoka Dore
Have you ever heard of the Mitsuoka Dore? Well, neither did I before now. Turns out it’s something of a kit car based on the Ford Foxbody Mustang but built in Japan rather than California or Florida. It has… more»
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Rare Kit Car: 1969 Behrens Convertible
I thought this car looked familiar. Unless it has a twin, it appeared here on Barn Finds more than three years ago. Either it didn’t sell then or was sold and is on the market again, but its location… more»
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Volvo-Powered: Rare 1971 Marcos GT
The Marcos GT is fiberglass fabulous, and this one has a steel chassis – a graduation from the first iterations set on plywood underpinnings. Contrived by Jem Marsh (a race driver and developer of performance parts for Austin 7s)… more»
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29 HP Sports Car! 1987 Citroën 2CV Burton
With its long hood, full fenders, and barely shiny baby blue paint, this 1987 Citroën 2CV Burton offers open-air driving, outstanding fuel economy, and extreme rarity. As few as three specimens exist in America, according to the seller. In… more»
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302-Powered Kit: 1957 Ford Thunderbird
The 1955-57 Ford Thunderbird was a more successful 2-seat automobile than the 1953-55 Chevrolet Corvette. But they had different target markets and the Ford handily outsold the Chevy. At first glance, you’d think this beauty is a real 1957… more»
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One Cylinder of Fury: 1967 King Midget
It seems that in the ’60s, it was totally normal to order a car kit from the back of a magazine and put it together in your garage. Barn Find has profiled countless kit cars, replicas, and sports cars… more»
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A Passing Resemblance: Jaguar XK120 Kit Car
When you stop to think about it, fiberglass changed the automotive world. From Corvettes to the plethora of kit cars sold from the fifties through today, this invention made a lot of dreams possible. In the kit car world,… more»
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Affordable Exotic? 1982 Bradley GT
Bradley Automotive was in the kit car business throughout the 1970s. That’s when building dune buggies on Volkswagen chassis became popular. The GT was perhaps their most successful model and accounted for an estimated sales of 6,000 units in… more»
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Subaru Kit Car: 2018 Factory Five 818s
Factory Five Racing, a Massachusetts company, started in the kit car business in 1995 and one of the models offered was the 818s, a small roadster whose guts would be based on a Subaru Impreza. The seller bought this… more»
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1 of 12 Built: 1966 Volkswagen Shala Vette
Unless you’re a student of dune buggies or kit cars, you’re probably not familiar with the Shala Vette. It was a Volkswagen-based fiberglass kit car that looked like an early C3 Chevrolet Corvette (1968-forward). They are very rare as… more»
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Affordable Ariel Atom: MEV Rocket
This great hobby has many fun and unique cars that fly under the radar. Up for sale is one of these cars that I had never heard of. How many of you know about the MEV Rocket? Take a… more»
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Barn Find: 1982 Aquila GT
The Aquila GT kit car amounts to an automotive Rorschach test. Some see Bricklin in its lines, some see Lamborghini, or BMW M1. I see Pantera, until the gullwing doors open. Whatever you see, the Aquila GT was the… more»
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Fantastic Plastic: 1957 Byers SR-100 Project
Jim Byers crafted a car brilliant enough that Road & Track made it a cover car – quite an accolade for a fiberglass special. The Byers SR-100 was featured in the magazine’s February 1957 issue, with a story all… more»
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Roaring ‘20s Throwback: 1978 Excalibur Phaeton
The Excalibur automobile was conceived by Brooks Stevens in the 1960s. Stevens was head designer at Studebaker in those days and he started up a company in Wisconsin to build the Excalibur, which was a replica of the 1928… more»
