Sure, building a car model is fun, but putting together a life-size, working version of a car you can actually drive is so much more satisfying. Kit cars are essentially prefabricated parts you ...

Kit cars are typically an inherently uncool subgenre of the enthusiast world. By driving a kit car you're living a lie, pushing a narrative that you can afford more car than you really can. Supercars ...

The Peel P50, produced in the early 1960s, was the smallest production automobile in the world. And now a new kit allows handy folks to build their own replica, although this time, it’s electric! To ...

Model T Fords were a bargain in 1927 for $360, and the Pinto was Ford's $1919 budget buggy for the Seventies, so can a $6500 track T kit car, set up for Pinto power, be considered a bargain in 1981?

Mainz, Germany - Do-it-yourself kits for cars are likely to become popular in the era of ready-to-assemble homes, according to German auto designer Bernd Michalak. He is presenting a kit-car system at ...

Slick V8-powered kit cars aren't restricted just to cars; Don Hardy makes a wild kit for transforming LUV pickups into street-stomping mini-trucks with small-block-Chevy power and IMSA looks. The kit, ...

If you’re old enough to have watched the old version of Top Gear, where Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond made automotive TV history, you might remember one particular episode featuring ...

From the time that automobiles became available to the general public, especially the Model T, inventive and clever people have modified and assembled them in myriad configurations and styles. Some of ...

The automotive world contains many terms to describe different sorts of specialized cars, often with overlaps between them. Two such terms are "kit car" and "replica," frequently misidentified or used ...