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Originally Posted by Excaliber
This is really "old school" stuff, in the days when kits were just barely kits and a LOT of fabricating was required.
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No, that's "ancient school" - I recall a couple of very funny Peter Egan columns about getting a wobbly uncut body and a pile of uncut steel stock called a kit. That's late 50s, early 60s.
"Old School" is late 60s to 80s, a "kit" was a crappy, badly-designed (think jr. high student drawing his dream car during History) or distorted (think fitting a Rolls onto an 84" wheelbase) body designed to bolt onto a Beetle chassis.
There was just nothing like spotting something cooler-looking (at first glance) than a Maserati... and having it go WAAAAAAA... WAAAAAA... WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... away from the stoplight. (He was by then up to 35, BTW.) You could always follow the driver to a parking lot and see how many tries it took to get the door to close and latch behind him... or better, yet, watch him hammer and curse behind a jammed "lift top" or something else futuro-kewl.
Of course, in an era when a performance car meant lots of tape, paint and plastic bumps, and the Vette had a whopping 160HP, I guess these things were an improvement...