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Originally Posted by YerDugliness

As for the perception that Hurricane is hiding something, I simply stated how it looks TO ME.

And I am telling you that you are wrong. I am not disagreeing with the notion that you should be entitled to as much information as you can get before buying a product, and your decision to NOT buy because you couldn't get access to all the data is certainly your prerogative. But you inferred that upstanding business people with a bunch of money invested are hiding something:

Originally Posted by YerDugliness

To me, this smacks of "We don't want the general public to know what kinds of problems they will encounter with our kits. so we'll keep that a secret until we have their money."

This is an absolute misrepresentation that could impact the OP's decision (as it apparently did yours) not to consider Hurricane. With regard to the facts, I DO HAVE access to the closed forum and there is nothing hidden there that would cause anyone to regret buying a Hurricane. 130 sold, none returned after access to the Dark Side. Its because actually its the Bright Side, full of love and insight on Happy Hurricane Ownership.

To the OP, there is nothing hiding in the Hurricane closed forum to scare you off. There have been ~130 cars built and many of them are covered there stem to stern. You will not encounter one single problem that hasn't been discussed and resolved by some very talented owner/builders. Actually, you'll encounter LESS because of all the refinements that have been done in the last year. The car has a very original body and a very high-quality chassis. Numerous changes have been made recently to make the HM2000-series car very authentic and much easier to assemble. Hurricane's parent company has been making fiberglass bodies and steel vehicle assemblies for many years ( Scranton Manufacturing Corporation, Inc.) and they have spent a lot of time perfecting the Hurricane body mold in order to reduce your prep time. And the kit comes very complete so you don't have to go searching for parts. These things, in my opinion, make it head's above the majority of the other kits out there for the money.