[bobcowan]

I hink that's an excellent question. If you're looking at a turn key minus car for $42K, and fully built, registered car with 5,000 miles on clock for for $42K, why choose the unfinished car?

1. Some people want something really unique under the hood, a custom built, all aluminum, stroker Pond motor. Or a twin turbo Dart small block. Then you would probably want to start fresh.

But I'v seen a lot of Superformance roadsters with a standard crate motor right out of the Ford catalog.

2. People often buy a kit car so they can say, "I built that." Granted, many of them simply mated a crate engine and trans to a crate car over the course of the week end. But that's more than the guy who guys down to the Ford dealer and buys a new Shelby. And maybe that's the lmit of his experiance, abilities, or desires. Not every can or wants to buiuld a car from individual components

Sure, the Superformance builder has not done nearly as much work as I have, and doesn't know nearly as much about his car as I do about mine. But, the scratch builder says the same thing about me. It's all a matter of perspective.