Just enough to get your foot in the game.
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Calling @WOLFGANG
This kit has your name all over it! 😉
A Kitman body, shortened VW pan, and subframe is $14,100 on their website. A Stage 1 Speedster body from VMC, with a subframe (no pan) and the doors, hood, and deck lid fitted with latches is $15,000.
This is $12,500. I guess you're saving $1600, but I'd think there are better deals out there (like the $15,000 body with the doors and stuff mounted already).
There's a multitude of fitting and fabrication needed to assemble that project and certainly not for a first- time builder.
But Wolfgang has already built a CMC.
He should be able to knock this one out in 40 hours!
Are we talking 40 hours or ..... 40 Light Years ? :~)
speaking of light years, I'm learning there's no such thing as "affordable" & it's not getting actively done right now so I'm still "winning" the race to @WOLFGANG. (too many other life things keep popping up...) At least it's not costing storage $
I sympathize with you @Wrenn Smith. I tried to finish mine in a reasonable time when I was working and that turned out to be about seven years. I had to retire and wait for that summer to be over before I found the time to really finish things - And even then it wouldn't be a four-season car for another four or five years. Life kept getting in the way.
Still does.....
@Gordon Nichols posted:But Wolfgang has already built a CMC.
He should be able to knock this one out in 40 hours!
Has he though? Has it ever run under it's own power?
One year a Carlisle Greg mumbled something about leaving the Speedster to me in his Will, but I truly believe that statement may have been uttered during the consumption of Yeast, Hops & Malt ....
If the care that went into taking those photos, is an indication of the quality of work put into mounting the sub-frame, run away!
-=theron