How do you handle the questions?

[imfastrnu2]

I actually disagree with Paul. My car is not a "kit" car. A "kit" is that plastic model you buy at hobby lobby that comes with instructions telling you to put part A into part B. My car is in no way like that. I "assembled" my car from the pieces I chose with the mechanical knowledge and skill that I had and acquired. Midstates supplied me with a body and frame...I took it from there. Calling it a "kit" minimizies all the hardwork and long hours that went into building it. I guess by the same token we could call all the cars circling the track on Sunday "kit" cars right? I mean Ford, Chevy, Dodge and Toyota didn't build those. A bunch of guys in a garage did. What's the difference? I don't care what someone else's perception of my car is, I know the truth; and the truth is that it is NOT a kit...it is a replica and that is what I refer to it as.

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Originally Posted by imfastrnu2

I actually disagree with Paul. My car is not a "kit" car. A "kit" is that plastic model you buy at hobby lobby that comes with instructions telling you to put part A into part B. My car is in no way like that. I "assembled" my car from the pieces I chose with the mechanical knowledge and skill that I had and acquired. Midstates supplied me with a body and frame...I took it from there. Calling it a "kit" minimizies all the hardwork and long hours that went into building it. I guess by the same token we could call all the cars circling the track on Sunday "kit" cars right? I mean Ford, Chevy, Dodge and Toyota didn't build those. A bunch of guys in a garage did. What's the difference? I don't care what someone else's perception of my car is, I know the truth; and the truth is that it is NOT a kit...it is a replica and that is what I refer to it as.

I agree, the term 'Kit Car' is somewhat misleading and demeaning. Unfortunately, it was tagged with that name many years ago and we just cannot get rid of it. I, too, have put many hours into the construction of my ERA, but if Peter says it's a kit, well then it's a kit. The factory-built Cobras also have the term 'Kit' hung on them. The state of CT. calls them 'composite' cars, built from various components.

[Paul F]

I understand your view. I have no issue with it. My only point is that peoples' personal feelings about what their car is; real, replica; original, continuation, kit; does not matter regarding the original point of this thread. The response to a person asking 'is it real' should simply be no. The answer to 'is it a kit or is it real' is 'it's a kit'. The answer to 'is it a kit' is 'its a kit'.

That answers the intent of the question. Any other embellishment to the answer serves your needs, not the person asking the question. It doesn't matter if you are proud of your car, or offended by the term kit, or worked really hard on it, or spent a lot of money on it, or think it is far superior to a kit.

The magazine is called Kit Car Magazine, not Replica Magazine nor Continuation Magazine nor Worked Really Hard On It Magazine. People only think its a real Cobra or a kit car. So owners' feelings about their car should not impede them from giving a simple answer to a simple question. Giving some long answer or 'its a replica' or some smart-arse answer sounds defensive and is defensive. I continue to wonder why people feel a need to embellish the answer.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Paul F

The magazine is called Kit Car Magazine, not Replica Magazine nor Continuation Magazine nor Worked Really Hard On It Magazine. People only think its a real Cobra or a kit car. So owners' feelings about their car should not impede them from giving a simple answer to a simple question. Giving some long answer or 'its a replica' or some smart-arse answer sounds defensive and is defensive. I continue to wonder why people feel a need to embellish the answer.

Then Playboy magazine, should have naked men in the magazine?

[jhv48]

And the madness continues!