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1933 Ford Factory Five Racing Coupe - A Cobra in Henry's Clothes
Factory Five Racing resurrected the Cobra as the sportsman's race car and transplanted that car's heart into a '33 Ford body... more |
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Mongoose Motorsports GTP And Grand Sport Coupe- Old School Coupe & Too Cool Land Rocket
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. more |
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Superformance 1965 Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe- Shelby's Daily Driver
Certain racecars transcend time. They're world-beaters during their reign, and they evoke an emotional response from many an automotive... more |
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2008 Backdraft Racing Cobra Roadster - Smoldering Stealth
They're prolific about the landscape and easy to spot. more |
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Superlite Coupe SL-C Super Car- Race Car Replica's Superlite Coupe
Race Car Replicas, a candy story for performance-minded car enthusiasts based in Clinton Township just north of Detroit, Michigan, debuted... more |
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Unique Motorcars 427 Shelby Cobra Replica- Made More Unique
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?" more |
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1965 Backdraft GT Ford Replica - World Premiere
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... more |
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2004 Superformance MK III Cobra Replica - A Superformance
To make up for missing out on KIT CAR's first ever Performance Day in 2007, Superformance fielded three cars for testing at the 2008 event:... more |
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2006 Intermeccanica Speedster Porche Replica - Sometimes Less Is More
All Porsches evolved from the 356, an elemental sports car that Ferry Porsche envisioned during World War II and introduced a few years... more |
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1965 Backdraft Racing Roadster - Last Cobra Standing
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... more |
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1965 Midstates 427 Cobra Replica - A Rat In A Cobra
The moment Dean Hornbacher unloaded his Midstates Cobra from the trailer we knew something was unusual. more |
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Two RCR40 Mk1's Ford GT40 Replicas - #1075 & #1083 Reborn
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... more |
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2004 FFR Mk3 Roadster- Well Represents The Breed
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... more |
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1966 Street Beasts Corbra Replica - Well Sold, Well Bought, Well Built
For an automotive enthusiast, going to car shows can be hazardous to your bank account. more |
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Replica Porsche 550A-6 Spyder- 550 Against The Clock
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... more |
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1965 Backdraft Racing Roadster - Fired Up!
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicted a mild-mannered scientist's transformation to madman after experimenting on himself by... more |
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Westfield XI- Weekday Thriller, Weekend Warrior
Should you wish to feel like a celebrity and get your photo taken multiple times while zooming down the road, build a Westfield XI. more |
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1958 Beck 356 Speedster- Girls Just Want To Have Fun
We agree with Cyndi Lauper: girls just want to have fun. more |
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A Knockout: The Aldino K/O
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... more |
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Porsche Speedster Frenzy - Driving Buddies
At the Speedsters, Spyders, and German Cars event, we met many German air-cooled car owners. In the case of all the replicars, every... more |
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Factory Five Racing GTM - Row, Row, Row This GTM
Any automotive industry guru will tell you that the SEMA Show is a spectacle. SEMA, which stands for the Specialty Equipment Marketing... more |
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1965 Ford GT 40 Replica - No Keeping Up With Mr. Jones
Whoever coined the phrase "keeping up with the Jones'" wasn't referring to Dennis Jones. As a young man he built and raced motorcycles,... more |
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1955 Porsche 550 Spyder - A Serious Web Spinner
Those genuine Porsche 550 Spyders, worth anywhere from $800,000 to over $1,000,000, had four-cylinder air-cooled boxer engines that... more |
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1990 Mazda Miata - Close Up
In a modern car whenever the engine check light goes on, there's a sense of gloom. This unhappy event occurred one Wednesday evening. more |
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Morris Clement's Kirkham 427 SC
While Mr. Smith has the fastest time ever recorded in a real Cobra, Morris Clement, of Gurnee, Illinois, certainly has the swiftest Kirkham... more |
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