Zack describes his Kelmark “80-90 percent complete” — judging by the pictures, he seems to me to be at the point where most old kit cars are called “100 percent complete”. He says it’s running well and that it’s currently registered in California (the car is in Roseville, CA). It’s on a VW pan with a chromed 1700cc engine, with an automated underglow kit with seven colors and ten functions, and he’s mounted real Ferrari badges on it. To be honest, I’d probably take some of them off, because I prefer the Kelmark to the 246 GT Dino that it’s inspired by, but at $6,500, this is one of the nicer Kelmark’s you’ll find for sale, let alone at that price. You can reach Zack at zquinn3@yahoo.com.

Jim’s (jameswlinck@hotmail.com) got an interesting first-generation Fiberfab Aztec for sale, with an asking price of $3,000. If you’re wondering why the wheel wells are filled in, he was prepping this car to compete in the automotive X Prize (building a high MPG production vehicle). He decided to drop out though, explaining,

This car is an early Aztec which claimed 100 mph on 40 bhp. It has a very low drag factor and with some extreme clean up is as good as anything entered in the Xprize with the same frontal area. It is well known that a conventional car that is very light and clean with a small motor will get over 100 miles per gallon. One established that at 114 miles per gallon in 1984 and is entered in the Xprize. I can’t decide to spend the time and money to enter since the rules are not established and they can easily favor hybrids or battery power cars, meaning you can not win with a conventional car, which makes the contest look foolish. I have an experimental water lubricated/cooled carbon motor concept I wanted to try and demonstrate in the contest, but its getting too late to throw all of this together without the formula. So I am thinking about selling the car and just making a proof of concept motor and letting it go to patents, which it has to at some point anyhow.

He’s located in Atlantic Beach, Florida. The car is on a VW pan with the Fiberfab subframe, but does not come with papers and is not currently running.

My friend Joe Lee wrote in with a couple more mystery Soviet kit cars. The red one is from the Ukraine and is named a “Gorin”, which he thinks was the name of the builder… It looks sort of like a chunky BMW M1 (or chunky Aquila) to me. The car is built on a sixties Mosckovich chassis and driveline, and the windshield is out of a Volga. The yellow one was built in Bulgaria in the seventies, with a Lada engine and driveline. It’s currently for sale in a village for $1,700.

My friend Eric asked me to post this Kelmark for a friend of his, who writes,

I started to rebuild the car and when my wife bought me my dream car (1955 Chevy) so I moved it to my garage out back about 2 years ago and now I need the room and don’t have time to work on it. When I got the car out of Arizona it ran but I had to hot wire it, the wiring is a little missed up. (I did get the car running and put two new carbs on, it runs good). The engine and trans is out of a 1964 Corvair and had been rebuilt and is on a VW pan. The body is in good shape, I have all the parts seats, dash, door panel and just picket up a new wiring harness for it (not installed at this time . If you have any question’s just let me know.

I don’t think it would take much to get the car on the road.

The Car is sitting in my Heated Garage at this time and I did start working on it with my son but he his playing golf for the High school and has lost interest in it. I live in Derby Kansas Just 5 miles south of Wichita, KS. I would like to get $1,500.00 for it.

You can reach Brian at 316-788-8672.

The first picture is of the car when he got it.

My posting may be a little sporadic (or at least come in bursts) until September because I’m taking this time off to spend the last couple weeks of summer with my daughter in between summer camp and the start of school.

There’s a very nice “Factory Built” 1979 Sebring (the “old man’s Sterling”) up for sale right now in Jackson, Florida (#290254082416). It looks really clean and finished with under 9,000 miles on a recently serviced rebuilt 1.8L VW performance engine. The car is original, never painted, and running strong, with a perfectly operating roof. Assuming the car’s description is accurate, this is one of the few Sebrings that you could step into that’s as close to a production car as VW kits tend to get.

I’ll be posting a more interesting DIY project of his soon, but in the meantime, this kit car builder is selling a nice clean Fiero based GT-40 inspired car. It’s on an ‘88 Fiero frame with a 3.8L supercharged engine. The car is located in California but he’s hoping to sell it outside of the state due to smog issues. Drop him a line at PONDGUY@aol.com.

Terry just sold off his VW-based Avenger kit for $1,500 after sitting for twenty years. He thinks the interesting tail lights are out of an old Firebird but he’s not sure.