Kit Kars.

New program on Speed shows buildups of assorted kit cars. The latest is a mid 80s full size Chevy made into a race truck.

I'm not getting all warm & runny over the grapics, but I like the concept.

http://www.superstepside.com/

I like that show so far. They've had some pretty interesting builds.

I've seen some interesting things done with S-10 frames. Wondered if a cheap Cobra body could work on one. E-bay has some of those, could be interesting for not much money.

Car content on Speed? Wow!

I generally just watch HD net. WAY better car stuff then speed, and they seem to be getting more. They recently had a show about a 16 year old girl in England restoring a 58 Bugeye (Frogeye).

I hate that show. It's a huge ad for Seafoam. Other than the first build, I haven't seen them do any real work themselves, rather, they have the kit car manufacturer build the car. I don't care about people who've thrown together a few hundred kits, I want to see a shlub like me put one together.

Admittedly, since I stopped DVRing it, I only saw the final episode of the "race truck". It looked like Toucan Sam flew by it and got hit. Not a fan.

on the subject of kitcars.. anybody ever taken one of those glassfibre MGTC bodies made for VWs and put it on a locost chassis to make a more unusual locost?

I immediatly thought of Knight Rider when I saw the title to this thread

This "truck" needed to be designed using a two-door car. The four door, chopped in half, looks stupid.

I've watched every episode of that series...............

First was building a Carrera GT clone on a Boxster chassis, next was a cobra, then a 30's ford (34 Ford?) then the Elcamino based on the Caprice.

It was like watching a car crash or a trainwreck. A few good pointers here and there (few, very few), but mostly I was just alarmed at the build quality/techniques that they were showing. I don't think the show did much for the stigma that kit cars have.

I got hooked in a bad way on this show with the Carrera GT "build". There was an amazing amount of ham-fistedness in the way that they hacked up the strut towers to get airbags under the car. I was also astounded how they went about cutting the frame to stretch the chassis to Carrera GT proportions.

I have a small shop in the backyard where I'm custom building a TVR. I basically kept the fiberglass bits and am building a frame, adapting C4 Vette suspension, dropping in an LT1 motor, etc........I'm also learning as I go. I think I have adequate skills..........after watching this series, I think I might be underestimating my skillset......at least I'm using a ruler and a level as I work!

Seriously, the folks on this show are "professionals"?

-jeff d

I've written this shows producer to complain about the builders using junk-yard parts without rebuilding them. Particularly in the case of that ugly excuse for an El Camino and the rednecks building that '34... give me a break. If I built a car like they do, I'd never have a customer (and I've built 15 kit cars).

Their shops look like junk-yards too! I was hoping for more SpeedTV quality programming and I've been let down.

Perhaps they will build a Superformance car soon or at the very least a Factory Five Competition Roadster.

Here's hoping.

This is why a true GRM, build it in your backyard, challenge car type show would never work. As much as we like to build them ourselves, we won't watch someone else do it without criticism.

orphancars wrote: I've watched every episode of that series............... Seriously, the folks on this show are "professionals"? -jeff d

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/professional

I always thought that if you make money at it or take money for doing it, you're a professional.

Listen. I'd be happy to sit all day and watch a coupla ham 'n eggers or Bubba or Bert & Ernie build a whatever than watch Nascrap.

Sorry, it's me.