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The replicas cover the gamut from $100,000 copies of near perfection to $30,000 packages that are simply kit cars with Cobra bodies. We first noticed the ads for Factory Five Racing's 427 roadster ...
Factory Five Racing began in 1995 and Kit Car magazine was there at the very start. Former KC editor Steve Temple, wrote that first article, "Horse Trader," letting folks know about a small ...
Factory Five says the kit is being offered to a number of markets around the globe, and that there’s also a version with the steering wheel on the right. You can order the car via Factory ...
Factory Five bit into the four-wheel-drive modifying ... The S model comes with a very spartan interior, but what more can you expect from a kit car that costs almost $10k? The R version will ...
Give people a chance to build their dream car using Factory Five's kit, a wrecked example of a high-performance car that was built in large numbers, and a few hundred hours of their own labor.
Others want to build one themselves, and the kit car wizards at Factory Five Racing are getting toward the pointy end of a project to replace the brand's top-shelf GTM supercar kit with something ...
Factory Five is one of the best-known American kit car makers, and for good reason. The company makes a variety of affordable kits, the most retro of those being the '33 Hot Rod. Available in ...
If you've been involved in the hot rod and muscle car hobby for some time now, you've probably heard of a company called Factory Five; they make reproduction kit cars you can build yourself.
Prior Factory Five offerings hewed to the time-honored kit-car practice of scavenging donor hardware from a production car to build something entirely different—like using Subaru WRX guts to ...
We’ve talked about kit cars before—mostly documenting the ... The video above follows YouTuber TacoJoe on his path toward driving a Factory Five Racing Cobra re-creation.
Factory Five Racing, the Massachusetts-based kit car company famous for its replica Shelby Cobras and mid-engine 818, is planning a new supercar for its lineup. Introduced at SEMA earlier this ...
Think of a Factory Five kit car as the ultimate adult Lego set. The premise: An average weekend warrior, armed with basic tools and about 250 hours of spare time, can build a hot rod, a midengine ...