[Chicagowil]

I just had a potential buyer back out of the sale of another car I have after he read online that it seems Wisconsin has started blocking any homebuilt cars from being registered if they are constructed of round tube steel.

I did see a few posting of others on different sites that ran into this. One of them was a purchased kit of a Lotus 7 from a kit company who supplied the entire manufactured frame.

In their (WI) web site, even a factory replica kit car, if I am reading it correctly, seems to be considered a "homebuilt" and I assume it places the same restriction on the kit. And now all Kits & homebuilt cars will be licensed for the year they are originally registered, not the year of the car it is replicating.

So, anyone looking to purchase a close clone of, say, a Cobra with an original style round tube frame, buyer beware! The original style, I assume, will fail inspection!

Only replicas built with a square tube ladder frame are safe and acceptable?

Wonder why Formula 1 race car builders are not aware that their cars are "unsafe" building round tube caged frames?

Not trying to dump on Wisconsin, just an FYI.

And since I am about to try and register my Classic Roadster 427 with a square tube frame instead of a "clone" of an original, I think I will be OK.