Question on Factory 5/Kirkham hybrid on Ebay

[Xavier]

It does not look too bad to me, depending on the price. Not sure the story on the car, but I was next to a guy at a show who was fitting a Kirkrham body on an F5 two years ago. I am not sure if it is the same car. He was a private pilot, he did a great deal of work on the car, and at the time had a lot of people commenting on how he did it. At the time, the car was not complete. He had to purchase the body from someone, and the F5 from F5. Neither company was crazy about the idea. I believe F5 finally said okay, but he had to get the body else where from a private owner who KMS build ran out of money. He was doing more of a rat-rod look and had the plane bomber seats in it. Good quality build at the time, but rat-rod bomber seats?

After all said and done, he told me he was doing it to save money - it was a two day show so i got to hear time after time to all of the F5 guys who were interested how he made all of the modifications to make it work - it was extreme. He admitted, if he had to do it all over again, he wouldn't have done it. Thousands of dollars and expert levels of fabrication had to be done to both the body and the suspension. The rear suspension had be significantly customized. He confessed after the build would be complete it would be the cost of the Kirkham.

It just adds a lot of risk to the build and question as to what you have. Either someone did a class "A" job of making it work or someone did not and after the custom modification he had made it was easy to believe the cost would be equal to that of a KMS or there about. And if not, what you have is Frankenstein.

A possibly good buy for the right price if someone was willing to invest in it to make it right (assuming it is not); but for someone who is looking at it to buy a driver to start cruising I would pass unless it was sold for $22k.