Darxus wrote:
So, what would be cheapest? And what would be easiest?...What donor, what style? Locost, T-bucket (with a hood)? Miata,...
Great mimes think alike...though you can't tell, because they don't talk, but as Beezleboss mentioned...
Beelzeboss wrote:
Definitely a hot rod would be the cheapest and easiest to make from scratch.
I'm in slow-but-steady process of building a hot rod style sorta Locost with a simple ladder frame a la hot rod, with Miata suspension components. I've been thinking a pre-V8 Track T banger would be a neat way to go. The main issue is, if equally stiffened, it'll outweigh a Locost by about 50 pounds. On the other hand, body swaps would be as easy as tinkertoys...Track T, Bucket T, Locost, Lotus 11, Lola Mk1...
RTz wrote:
I think exocars/exokarts belong somewhere in this list. Take an existing car and remove/cut away everything 'unnecessary'...
Right, like Michelangelo sculpted David by taking a big block of marble, and knocking off anything that didn't look like David.
RTz wrote:
...and throw a cage around it. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWIM8I_J4CcDavid is currently in the Accademia Gallery of Florence (Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze). It's not a cage, exactly, but the doors lock and they have armed guards.