Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play "It's the most successful model we've launched," Smith says. In the past year and a half, Factory Five has sold 250 kits of its latest car, the '33 Hot Rod, which evokes a 1933 Ford but is equipped with modern underpinnings. But it also allows us to design build-it-yourself cars that are much more accessible than they used to be-and thus more fun." "On one hand, it results in production cars that aren't serviceable-I open the hood of a new car and don't even know what I'm looking at. "Technology cuts both ways," says Dave Smith, president of component car kit manufacturer Factory Five Racing. These days, a car customer inclined to pick up a wrench has more and better options than that sad figure from 20 years ago, the one coated in fiberglass dust and becoming familiar with a Mustang II's front suspension.
The words "kit car" once evoked VW-powered Mercedes SSK knockoffs and disillusioned shade-tree mechanics with half-built projects in their garages. This is a good time to be a gearhead with a DIY bent.
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