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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 06:20 AM
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Mr Vette for some reason the pictures of your car never come up for me. Do the rest of you see pictures of Mr Vettes car??
No, website never loads.
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 01:15 PM
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That last one is Hilarious!

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I like these:

I don't like these:

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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 01:24 PM
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Just saw these on facebook...

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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 02:23 PM
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If you click on mrvette's profile homepage it will bring you to his Shutterfly account. There is a Vette album in there with his car.
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 03:37 PM
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 05:17 PM
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Theandies,

Thanks just the type reply i was hoping for and i hope they keep coming from all directions.

Priya,
That loaf of red french bread you centered out i believe is called "scorpion" not the cool rear engined one of the same name but some one off by a customizer no ones heard of for sale on and off for years,
Seems it was in south florida...oh course

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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 05:26 PM
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Originally Posted by The13Bats
Priya,
That loaf of red french bread you centered out i believe is called "scorpion" not the cool rear engined one of the same name but some one off by a customizer no ones heard of for sale on and off for years,
Seems it was in south florida...oh course
Its really goofy looking but I'd drive it because I get a kick out of that sort of thing.

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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 05:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Priya
Its really goofy looking but I'd drive it because I get a kick out of that sort of thing.
I used to be big on vw kit cars, wanted an aztec 7,
Looked fun in pictures,
This was before net but i hunted and hunted old school ways and found one in a field,

"Goofy" would have been better, for a car that looked okay in pics in person it was so darn butt fugly to me, that i actually would have been embarrassed to drive it,

I think this scorpion is that way in person.
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by The13Bats
I used to be big on vw kit cars,
Wife & I built many cars together over our 35 years of marriage so far....
our first, and our last were the only fiberglass ones.
Our first we called, oddly enough, "The poor man`s Vette"....
never dreaming that we`d actually HAVE a real Corvette one day!






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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 07:06 PM
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Originally Posted by The13Bats
I used to be big on vw kit cars, wanted an aztec 7,
Looked fun in pictures,
This was before net but i hunted and hunted old school ways and found one in a field,

"Goofy" would have been better, for a car that looked okay in pics in person it was so darn butt fugly to me, that i actually would have been embarrassed to drive it,

I think this scorpion is that way in person.
My buddies Dad had a Bradly GT - Cool kit car
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 08:27 PM
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that blue C2 is cool looking would be nice to see more pic's of that one.
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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by theandies
My buddies Dad had a Bradly GT - Cool kit car
Nice, #1
i knew a guy who did super well auto crossing one in the 80s

Many or most vw kit cars used donor windshields from other cars,
In their era's cheap,
Now for example an aztec 7 uses a lambo miura screen about 4500.00 last i looked making an old aztec 7 with broken glass about worthless,
But just as bad or worse the ones like mantas, sterlings, cimbrias, and the bradleys 1 and 2 use unique to them glass which wasnt made in mast and hasnt been made in about 30 plus years,

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Old Oct 10, 2018 | 09:46 PM
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Wasn`t there a VW based kit that looked a lot like a Pantera?
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Jim,
The aquila comes to mind, they only made a few of these,
Vw pan, drive train,



But like with pretty much all vw based kits its a cartoon character of the real deal and wasnt supposed to be a copy of any one car.

Marauder cars made several high end gts and and their version of the pantera, it was more race looking, full frame zf transaxle, and i say this as a pantera fan it was stunning,
Marauder cars were always rare and well made so much so some examples fetch as much as a real version if you can find one.

I still get emails weekly asking about kit cars and try to help but I left kit cars to do just corvettes,
However, i really like the a dick dean shala vette, you might recall one in the first death race movie, so many people thought that was a real vette in the movie.
Priced right i might grab one someday.


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