You said you wanted an Excocet but they were out of stock and backed up... so I assume you want to end up with a nice open tube car not just cut up a junk car to make an even more ugly junk car.
So... I'd look for tube chassis road race cars without an offset or ones that can easily be altered as a starting point rather than a unibody nightmare. Then make it road legal and get a fabricator's title for it. IMSA or NASCAR style chassis turn up on ebay with running gear for reasonable cost all the time. The smaller scale bike engined NASCAR ones are cheap too.
There were two tube chassis race cars on BAT recently that could be a starting point. Just get rid of the body. Was also going to suggest something like a Polaris RZR or Slingshot with some work. But I'm thinking you wanted something that started as street legal right?
P71. Frame, drivetrain, seat. Done.
that, with a seat on it.
Hudson straight eight
Cleve Curtiss
" In that same year, 1953, Cleve had another adventure. He had built a racer in the late 1940s from a 1934 straight-eight Hudson. "I stripped the body off, shortened the chassis way down, and put three Carter sidedraft carburetors on the engine, just like the early six-cylinder Corvettes. Boy, I even beat motorcycles with that sucker.
"One of the highlights of my life was up at Ansonia airport. A guy named Harry had a Jaguar, a modified XK 120, and he was beating everybody. I showed up in my Hudson and offered to race him. He said, 'I don't race manure spreaders.' I said, 'Oh yeah? Well, this manure spreader will beat you so bad you'll think you're going backwards!' So we ran, and I beat him."
