Turnkey Vs Kits >>why?

[Bruce Edwards]

Rick,

As a builder of kits and the owner of a restoration shop I can tell you the reasons our customers bring cars to us to build or restore. They can not do it or do not have the time to do it. Also most of the turn key cars I have seen are all the same with very little in the way of change from factory options. The first car we built was and E-M that was to say the lest bare of options. E-M offered nothing at the time short of a one fits all kit.
We took that car and added powersteering, heat and fresh air, 4 speaker sound system, an extension from the dash to the tunnel for the radio, tilt wheel, a custom made 22 gal aluminum tank, changed the rad position to help cooling, made up a set of ducts to help force air into the rad and used the front brakes ducts for a fresh air ram system into the passenger area to help keep your feet cool, power antenna and windshield washer system.
Remember that at the time NO ONE that we could find even offered these options.
So to answer your question form my side of things it is the challenge to do something to a car that the designers said could not be done. With out people like myself and others that wish to build their own cars the car you are driving now would not be as nice as it is.
You have any idea how pissed off my father and I were when we went to pick up our second E-M car for a customer and they were incorporating most of our ideas on to their new car? Talk about nerve when the "Engineer" ask me how we solved our vent problem on our fuel tank as he walked me over to one that looked just like ours I almost lost me cool. What is it they so no honor among -----???
Off my rant sorry. Taking a car that you built to a show and winning over factory built is a real high and shows everyone that the individual can build something just as nice or nicer than they can buy. Everyone likes to add their own touch to their cars. Different wheels sound system and the like. Those are just some of the things done to brand new Ford's Chevy's and the like to make the car your own.
So in a nut shell I guess what I am doing my best to convey is that there is nothing in the world better than saying "I did myself" or even from an owners stand point from one of the cars we build "I designed it myself".


Bruce Edwards
Gemini Motorcars Inc.