65 Roadster Mark 3

It’s hard to give complete vehicle specifications for a kit since so much of what the car becomes is added by the person who builds it.  We’ll try to give as much information on the specifications as possible.  Where performance numbers are listed, there is a corresponding reference to the running gear, tires, and dyno-tested horsepower in the vehicle that generated these numbers. 

The most time intensive part of engineering a quality kit is to make sure the vehicle dimensions and specifications are as close to period correct as possible.  One of the reasons our car has so effectively captured the look, feel and performance of the original 1960’s roadsters is that we kept the specifications and construction methods as similar as possible.  We didn’t assume that we could come up with better base lines than those followed by the original designers of the time.  There is a distinct beauty to the roadracing cars of the early sixties that is timeless.  Using the original vintage British and American cars for inspiration, we obsessed on small things like windshield rake or roll bar position and such.  Faithfulness to the original roadster design meant painstaking attention to dimensional detail. Our car is virtually identical dimensionally to original cars.

Our car has an original spec 90” wheelbase and 4.5” ground clearance.  One of the worst things to do to a replica is to stretch or change its wheelbase.  If you’ve ever seen one of those horrible Fiero-turned-into-Ferrari replicars, you know what we mean. The incorrect wheelbase makes the car look wrong immediately.  You wouldn’t think your eyes are so accurate but it’s this same ability that lets you see a picture on a wall is uneven, even if it’s only tilted a single degree!