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Shop Work: How to build your own Ariel Atom from scratch

Why reinvent the wheel when you can simply recreate a proven design? GRM Challenge veteran Jon Winterhalter drew inspiration from the lightweight Ariel Atom and built this street-legal sportster from scratch.

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1990 Locost

In most states, you have to wait three days to buy a handgun. This was good news, since our plan to build a Miata-based Locost in just two days would …

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Valkyrie ressurection, GT40-ish kit car
Fiberfibuilt on triumph
Electric SuperCar
Two Locost Seven Frames and Various Parts $1000 - NMNA - FBM - Romulus, MI (Detroit suburb)
Talk me out of it or enable me
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Nov 30, 2019 by pugboy
1991 None Exomotive Exocet

My Exocet race car has the guts of a 1991 Miata, but features a built engine with a Disco Potato turbo, Flyin Miata FOX suspension, adjustable control arms all around, …

Feb 09, 2020 by TexAg71
1981 None MP Lafer

Brazilian roadster, factory-built from 1974 to 1989 in Sao Paolo. Approximately 4,300 built in total. Style inspired by MG-TD, but with fiberglass body on VW Type 1 frame. Powered by …

Oct 16, 2018 by FE3tMX5
2013 Kit Car & Replica Roadster Zero-E

Built from bed frames, jogger strollers and scrap car parts for gravity races (sort of like GRM Challenge soap box derby).

Mar 09, 2018 by veek
2002 Kit Car & Replica CAV GT40

In the early 1960s Ford Motor Company embarked upon a course to become a serious competitor in World Manufacturers' Championship racing. Possibly the most remarkable aspect of the GT40 was …

Mar 05, 2017 by turbo_bird
2014 Kit Car & Replica Locost

Ford V6, Mitsubishi 5 speed, Toyota axle and spindles, with a bunch of other random junk making up the rest of it. Started with a CMC frame after I found …

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