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My opinion FWIW is, find a local club, get to know the people & tell them what your ideas are.

Maybe get a ride in one. More than just a ride around the block. A nice couple hour cruse on the freeway and hopefully in the hills a bit. A couple of hours in these cars will tell you and your fiancee' if this type of car is for you or not.

Most of these cars are raw, bare to the bones, street legal race cars. They drive and smell like it.

You can make them more comfortable to be in and there are quite a few of them that are like that. You can get them with a hard top, a soft top, or no top at all (which are most I believe).

If you get/build one that has high HP plan on working on it a lot, or paying someone to do it.

Also check out the registration process, limitations and insurance costs for the vehicle in your state.

Bryan will give you some good tips and from what I understand is a very up front guy but besure to check out other kit manufactures also.

As the saying goes, research,research,research.

FWIW, It is common knowlage that a lot of the kits purchased never make it to the road. Or at least not by the orgional kit purchaser anyway. So buying a used car sometime is the better option and will probably cost you less in the log run. Depends on if you can purchase one upfront of if you have to build it in time because of cash flow restraints or if you really want to build one for the experiance.