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aks801
You mentioned you went to midstates, did you check out their sister company Shell Valley? They build a nice kit with a lot of standard equipment that is all new and not doner. The A & C kit with the gel coat body is a better finished body than the Shell Valley but it has some flaws that you cannot fix without painting the car. For example on some of the cars I have seen the doors don't fit perfect, in places core mat is visable, and I personally do not like the wheel openings. I am not bashing the car because in my opinion they build the best body but my point is no body is perfect. Shell Valley seem to me to offer a good body decent frame alot of standard hipo features and are willing to customize their car to the purchaser all at a good price.
As Allen English stated though no matter what kit and how cheap the kit is you can spend alot of money depending on what you can do yourself and what you have to purchase or pay some one else to do for you and the SPF can be affordable in the long run and it is a nice car.