Ace-Garageguy Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 All my life I've wanted a streeterized '60s prototype car, but real ones are unobtainable now, and every one of the kit-built offerings I've been able to drive, though beautiful, fast, and tons of fun, have come up short one way or another. But I think I may have finally found the one. Time to start saving my lunch money again... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
espo Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Made me go out and buy a fist full of Lottery tickets. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 23 Author Share Posted March 23 (edited) 1 hour ago, espo said: Made me go out and buy a fist full of Lottery tickets. Yup. And unlike a lot of replicas and kit-cars, this one appears to be entirely capable of turning in some impressive real-race-track performance. Imagine going out and driving something as rorty and competent as a real 1960s Can Am car that's in good nick whenever you felt like it. Oh yes.... EDIT: This guy can drive, too. He's right on the edge all the time. Edited March 23 by Ace-Garageguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 23 Author Share Posted March 23 (edited) Well fellers...I just emailed the company to see if they'll sell components separately...like a bare chassis, suspension uprights, and body panels. I already have a 944 Turbo gearbox, enough SB Chebby stuff to trade for a decent LS, and I can fabricate the rest or buy it stateside. We shall see... https://www.gdcars.com/t70spyder Edited March 23 by Ace-Garageguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stavanzer Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Good Luck, Bill. I hope to see you finish it and drive it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 (edited) 18 minutes ago, stavanzer said: Good Luck, Bill. I hope to see you finish it and drive it! Thanks. Odds are it won't happen. I'll have to liquidate a lot of stuff to pull it off, and they might not even be willing to sell anything but a complete kit, which I can understand, but that would most likely kill the deal. A full kit is about $100 grand, and there's no way to finance these things...normally... Still, it's kinda nice to have a dream even at the ripe old age of 146. Anyway, I still have the '32 Ford to build as soon as I get settled in Az., and a few others to get running again, so I can't really complain no matter how it goes. Edited March 24 by Ace-Garageguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 Bill, I hope it works out where you can get one of these, what seems like, very capable machines! Building it should be a cinch for ya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 31 minutes ago, JollySipper said: Bill, I hope it works out where you can get one of these, what seems like, very capable machines! Building it should be a cinch for ya! Thank you, sir. But there's a long way to go to get from here to there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 Heard back from Gardner-Douglas, the builder of these things, and they're amenable to a spread-out build-stage program, as opposed to requiring purchase of the entire kit. They seem like a good company to do business with, so we'll see what we'll see... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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