[RedEye]

I picked up my partially build Streetbeast kit from a builder who was going in for heart surgery. I basically 'unbuilt' the entire thing, rewelded, straightened, and altered the frame and mounts, sandblasted everything, had a body shop urethane paint everything... ... ... as went the entire project - nothing was left in it's original form.... many many thousands later... I happened to be parked next to a Superformance with about similar miles.

A nice old Model T rebuilder walks up to the two parked cars, and says to me under his breath, "I don't know why that guy - tilting his John Deere cap and nodding over his shoulder - didn't get his car professionally built like you...."

I basically thought, Holy Jose... if you only know what I went through so you could say that!

Hands down, the Superformance was beautiful, mine possibly more unique, both great cars. As I've said on these forums before, if I ever sell it I'll probably list it as a custom car with parts from a kit, and that would be the most accurate description possible, not only for my car but for many builders on these forums.

I would say if you took a Streetbeast out of the box and only assembled it with supplied components and scavenged parts from a junker you have a real transylvania frankenstein with minimal engineering improvement from a car of the era. The weight of the fiberglass alone, is either the smartest or dumbest thing ever, depending on purpose and intention.
If you give it all new components, professional engineering improvement, and quality craftsmanship - it'll be as good as the best of anything else out there.