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Thanks Ben for noticing.

Yes, it's just a matter of time before we as Kit car builders will be known as Componant cars or Self assembly auto builders.
And those titles could incompass all kinds of auto building. I think street rods are componant cars. Even if they start with an original it doesn't stay that way for long in the hand of a good builder. He will change suspensions, add power windows, seats, stereos, and a host of other modern improvements. Not too different from what we do.
It's funny but you can't say replica to an owner of a 34 Ford 3 window coupe or they get insulted. When I was at Good Guys last year I had several guys ask if my car was a kit and I would say it is a replica. Then I would ask what they had. One guy said he had a 37 ford 3 window coupe. I told him that Ford never made a 37 Ford 3 window coupe. I asked him if he mated a top from a 36 3w coupe to a 37 . He said "Naw, I just bought a fiberglass body and I got the frame from Fatman." he says.
" Oh!, so you have a phantom replica." I got a weird stare and he then walked off. What's good for the goose is good for the Gander.
It's really time that all of us car crazies stop this catagorizing and look at what one has done and start appreciating the fact that we all luv cars and we all get the one we luv the most.

Hersh