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Some impressive cars that others have built:

Twin sport-bike powered Seven

V8-powered 914

Morris Minor/Fiat race car

Mid-engine MR-2 based roadster

Sport-bike powered Seven

Hybrid Minis

Mid7 An on-line blog of Matt Giles and his mid-engine Mazda RX-7 conversion. With his background in FSAE and his willingness to think outside the box (mid-engine), it's proving to be a very intriguing build.

Bonneville Lakester A really cool site of a guy building a Bonneville racer in his garage much the same way I built Kimini. A great build diary and lots of pictures of his continuing construction.

V6 4x4 Mini
A Mini originally with the Ford sierra V6 and 4x4 running gear, his current project is along the same lines but with the twin turbocharged Cosworth engine producing a reliable 300bhp.

Toyota 4AGE into a MG Midget
A cool site with lots of pictures. He also converted the suspension to push-rod in the front and IRS in the rear.

Mid-engine 4WD 700lb single-seater This thing will be a terror. He's planning on turbocharging it too. 700lbs + 300hp = Yikes! Oh, and now he's installing a 300hp Hayabusa-based V8...










Norton Shrike One man's journey into building his own 3-wheeler from scratch. Hat's off to him as he designed and built it over 20 years ago. There aren't too many builders who still drive their homebuilt after 20 years!

MeerKat MR-2 powered, mid-engine, Super-7-esque two seater.

Homebrew "F40" A guy always loved the Ferrari F40 but couldn't afford one so he had one built! While I wonder what the final bill was (as in, could he have just bought a used, real F40,) nonetheless it's very impressive. Be sure to check out the track videos further down the page. The flames out the back during shifts are nice, and the 800hp(!) Lexus engine sounds great (yes, Lexus.)

Attack Honda mid-engine kit car with a super-car look. Hard to find technical info other then size and weight. Nice car but the marketing is a bit nebulous.

Turbo twin sport-bike-powered Super-7 A UK company who specialize in single or twin bike engined mini's, their current project not listed on the website is a turbocharged bike-engined mini with 400bhp.

V6 Mini.com

Racing Barstools! This is just too funny... what can I say, my hat's off to them.

If I had roughly ten times the budget, I'd have to build an Ultima. Here's a good builder's site.

Another large group of builders are working on versions of the Locost sports car. This is yet another Lotus Super-7 type car, redesigned recently by Ron Champion to use very common and low cost parts from British cars. This use of cheap parts produced a book with the (rather optimistic) title "Build your own Sports Car for as Little As 250 Pounds." While technically not a true scratch-built car, so many people throughout the world have modified them so much, that they're all but true custom cars. This is why I include it here because many of them may very well be one-offs. Here is the main site, dedicated not only to Locost builders, but all builders of one-off, home built cars. A very useful reference.http://www.locostcarclub.co.uk

And the Yahoo Locost builders group:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/locost/


Other cool sites.
MicroJet-powered helicopter

ViperJet Build and fly your own micro jet!

Marine Turbine Technologies. Jet powered boats and motorcycle!