To make up for missing out on KIT CAR's first ever Performance Day in 2007, Superformance fielded three cars for testing...
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Have you heard this one? A man comes up to a Cobra at a car show and asks the owner who's standing by, "Is that a Mazda Miata?"
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Factory Five Racing resurrected the Cobra as the sportsman's race car and transplanted that car's heart into a '33 Ford body...
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One of the best ways to prove whether a replica is road-ready or race-worthy is in the driver's or the racer's seat.
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Why the '33 Hot Rod has more tradition than the garden-variety "traditional" car.
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Certain racecars transcend time. They're world-beaters during their reign, and they evoke an emotional response from many an automotive racing enthusiast.
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They're prolific about the landscape and easy to spot.
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Race Car Replicas, a candy story for performance-minded car enthusiasts based in Clinton Township just north of Detroit, Michigan, debuted their new Superlite Coupe at the recent Run 'N' Gun event at Gateway International Raceway just outside St. Louis, Missouri.
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From 1966 through 1969, they were world-beaters. The 427ci big-block Ford V-8-powered GT40 Mk IIs finished First, Second, and Third overall at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans in Rheims, France. With dramatically different bodies, but still...
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All Porsches evolved from the 356, an elemental sports car that Ferry Porsche envisioned during World War II and introduced a few years later in 1948.
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Kit Car's first ever Performance Day was so successful that we'll be staging another Performance event in 2008. Before we do, we need to give the results for all the cars tested...
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The moment Dean Hornbacher unloaded his Midstates Cobra from the trailer we knew something was unusual.
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My fascination with the GT40 goes all the way back to my childhood. As a young boy hanging around the family body shop, Walnut Park Auto Body in Crestwood, Missouri, I would ask...
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Since many of KIT CAR's readers have built or are constructing Factory Five roadsters, we knew our clients would love to learn how well the cars do in controlled testing.
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For an automotive enthusiast, going to car shows can be hazardous to your bank account.
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Though KIT CAR Performance Day is but a distant memory from last year, the fun we had and the times the participating kit car manufacturers posted will long be remembered.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicted a mild-mannered scientist's transformation to madman after experimenting on himself by taking a mind-altering drug he'd concocted in his laboratory.
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Should you wish to feel like a celebrity and get your photo taken multiple times while zooming down the road, build a Westfield XI.
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We agree with Cyndi Lauper: girls just want to have fun.
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The Aldino K/O kit is the culmination of over 20 years of design experience by Joe Palumbo, a pioneer in the kit car industry. Aldino has been...
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At the Speedsters, Spyders, and German Cars event, we met many German air-cooled car owners. In the case of all the replicars, every machine we saw appeared well-crafted and constructed with great attention to detail.
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Any automotive industry guru will tell you that the SEMA Show is a spectacle. SEMA, which stands for the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association, has served and facilitated the growth of...
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Whoever coined the phrase "keeping up with the Jones'" wasn't referring to Dennis Jones. As a young man he built and raced motorcycles, from motocross to road-course caf racers. The man could travel on two wheels like not many others. To do so he must have ha
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In a modern car whenever the engine check light goes on, there's a sense of gloom. This unhappy event occurred one Wednesday evening.
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While Mr. Smith has the fastest time ever recorded in a real Cobra, Morris Clement, of Gurnee, Illinois, certainly has the swiftest Kirkham 427 SC of all time, bar none.
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