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WOW, if they build cars the way they have their website, I got to wonder if they are really any good.. that is the most useless annoying website I have been to in a long time. The pictures are nice, but the information is so general as to be almost useless and you kind of have to stumble around to find anything. How about some pricing? I think this is something a lot of people do that is silly, not putting a price on anything is just bad communication. At a minimum they should have some example configurations and pricing.
Maybe down the road Specialty Autoworks will modify their Subie speedster. PGO has the original and the PGO II. Maybe one day Specialty will do that too.
The web site didn't surprise me (that it was poorly done)...they are French, you know.
Also, You've got to wonder how close the price would be to a Lotus Elise.
Ron
I could be wrong here, but I am almost positive that PGO was buying and assembling kits from Vintage. Which would mean that perhaps Kirk could do some buying of the Speedster II. I will hopefully be down in the LA area in the next couple of weeks. I will be sure to ask Kirk, so my facts are straight.
-=theron
Theron,

Hope you are going down to order a new Speedster!
See if you could get Kirk to bring a car or two to Knotts. We will have Henry from IM and John Steele from JPS there. It would be nice to get a convention of these guys. We will be having an informal Q&A session and sure would like to see Kirk represented as many of his cars will be on the show field. Knotts is shaping up very nicely and John and I will be making some announcements later this week I believe.

Bruce
Air cooled motors were suppose to simplify things. Instead, air cooled motors have just made owning them more complicated. When it's cold out you worry about them getting 'up to temperature'. when it's too hot out you worry about them 'overheating'. We are constantly watching our oil temperature and head temperature and oil pressure and we worry about external coolers and better shroud/fan systems. I never worry about my Ranger pickup. Hot, cold, traffic jam, high speed or heavy load. I just drive it. That being said, I still like my air cooled flat four...go figure.
Ron
Ron:

I drove my '66 Ghia in hot summers, freezing winters and everything in between, and never ever even thought about how warm/cold the engine was. Maybe it was because I was younger and not as aware; maybe it was because I didn't give a hoot; or maybe I just didn't know any better.

However, that Ghia never failed me. Maybe we just have so much dough sunk into our replicas that we worry about everything. Maybe we should just drive the damn things....

I still have the Ghia, and it's my next restoration project.

Bob
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Bob, I put 60,000 miles on my 1970 beetle, while going to university, and I never worried about heat, traffic, cold etc, either. And you know what....I never had any problems....no overheating, no broken belts...nothing. That car started every time and went any/everywhere. Mind you, it was fairly stock, and that probably made a big difference. Also, the whole CAR cost me $1100 (1974 dollars), while my new 2110 MOTOR is probably worth $5000.
Ron
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