I think i'm sick....

[Geronimo]

All this lock down has me looking at Countach kit cars.... it was the "other" childhood dream car.

I have 2 years planned for my GT2 widebody turbo build... but then.... ooooh man so much WANT for that most impractical of cars.

A M70 or 1GZ V12 mated to a getrag box.... hmmmmm

[GH85Carrera]

One of my friends lusted after a Countach for years. He was lucky enough to find a exotic car dealer that had one and would let him test drive it. It was fun for 10 minutes, and then the reality of how poor the vision was and backup up is impossible without sitting on the door sill. He quickly realized it was a great poster car, but sucked as a driver's car.

Good luck with that dream, and be careful it does not become a nightmare.

[sammyg2]

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You'll spend at least half of that building a good copy and it won't really be that good.
Nothing wrong with dreaming about it tho.

About 22 years ago I told the wife about my dream of building a cobra kit car.
The more I looked into it, the less it made sense.
I ended up dragging home and fixing up a 914 instead



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[Geronimo]

IF I had more garage and more years or income I would have My Porsche turbo GT2 widebody franken Porsche, a Countach Kit and a Factory Five kit...

That is the dream garage to me.

I think you could do a very nice Countach for just under $60K.... I have never liked the new Lambo's... the old Countach has a certain charm kinda like my old SC...

[MRM]

Sammy, that's kind of how I got into 911s. I always planned to get a classic sports car when I was able and my eye was on a Jaguar XKE. I drove past a pretty nice one that was in my price range. It was the early days of the internet, so I stayed up late at night, dialed up on AOL, searching for anything I could find about Jaguars in general and XKEs in particular. I found a wealth of information from XKE enthusiasts. All of them claimed that Jags were not unreliable, you simply needed to maintain them differently than the average American was used to. I was buying that for a while, until I stumbled on a guy who had a magnificent web page and wrote a short book on how to maintain an XKE for reliable daily driving. It was broken down into things you do based on use and the passage of time. I got through the basic stuff you do every time you drive it (check the tires, top up the oil, look for fluid leaks) and even up to things you do every couple of weeks and a few hundred miles. But by the time I got to things you had to do every six weeks or a thousand miles, I realized what you had to do to keep XKEs reliable drivers: you have to practically rebuild them over the course of a season.

That was it for me. I realized that maintaining a British sports car was beyond my interests and abilities. I returned to my first love - 911s - cars that require just enough maintenance to be reliable drivers to be engaging, but nothing unreasonable.

I lust after Countaches and all the Italian exotics too, but I am now satisfied to keep them on a wall and admire them in pictures.

[pwd72s]

A wrecked-em place in Florida is offering a '19 Mustang Bullitt drive train...5.0 Coyote normally aspirated 480 horsepower, getrag 6 speed...$7K. Actually found myself thinking of what it could fit in. Then came to my senses...

[sammyg2]

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[MRM]

Would that fit in a Focus if you used a big enough crowbar?

[rfuerst911sc]

You are not alone I always wanted to build a Cobra or 550 Spyder replica . I think the blind spot issues on these cars can easily be resolved today with a simple back up camera and double DIN display .

[Rapewta]

Not trying to stir you away from your dream but you might consider a GT40 kit.
I never thought much about taking an existing chassis and putting a exotic car body on it.

Back in 1990, I built a kit car AC Cobra replica. One year project. Was a lot of fun. 20 K miles later I sold it. You just have to pull the trigger and go for it. I do like those Ford GT40 replicas.

[GH85Carrera]

One of my friends that has had both Ferraris and Porsches in his garage repeated a line that makes a lot of sense. The Ferrari guys brag about how low mileage their cars are and the car shows they truck the cars to. The Porsche owners brag about the high mileage on their cars, and the places they have been to see while diving their Porsche.

That same friend said back in the late 1980s his practice was making a lot of money, and he decided he needed a Ferrari or Lambo as a cool car. He started looking at new ones. He was smart enough to ask about the needed maintenance, and what they would cost to have done. A friend of his suggested he check out a 911 Turbo. When he saw the maintenance cost was tons less expensive, he was intrigued. Then on the test drive the turbo kicked in and his 8 year old son in the back seat whooped out "dad, you gotta buy this car!" and he was hooked.

[HardDrive]

Speaking of impractical, I would love to build a Pursuit Special, ala Mad Max.

Really not that crazy of a build, basically a hot rod build, leaving it raw an unfinished would add to the look.

[Laneco]

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[Geronimo]

Their is a company that uses it's own chassis for the kit. The molds look pretty darn good.

The GT40 kits are pretty nice, I like them as well and there are a good number that are very well sorted, some might be better that an original.

There is just something soul stirring about a Countach. It is the harder of the kits out there however.

A BMW M70 v12 or a Toyota 1GZ V12 can be sourced for little money... I think they use Boxster transaxles.

We'll see, I have a couple years to sort the turbo widebody build before I can dig into or spend elsewhere.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by HardDrive

Speaking of impractical, I would love to build a Pursuit Special, ala Mad Max.

Really not that crazy of a build, basically a hot rod build, leaving it raw an unfinished would add to the look.

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[Sarc]

Originally Posted by Geronimo

IF I had more garage and more years or income I would have My Porsche turbo GT2 widebody franken Porsche, a Countach Kit and a Factory Five kit...

That is the dream garage to me.

I think you could do a very nice Countach for just under $60K.... I have never liked the new Lambo's... the old Countach has a certain charm kinda like my old SC...

Why not throw in a Miura replica while your at it?

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[rfuerst911sc]

Originally Posted by Laneco

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Angela that car is stunning , must be a hoot to drive . The force is strong with that one 😁

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