Hello and welcome to my BLOG everyone! My name is Joe and I live in Arlington, Texas. A little brief info about me.. I'm 43 years old and don't have any professional training as a mechanic. I've been a police officer for 22 years and currently work as a Patrol Officer. I look forward to retiring some time in the next 3 years and my current goal is to finish this project before I retire! "This project" you ask?? Yes, I'm planning to build a car like the one pictured above (different color scheme, but the same car!) a race car of sorts.. a race car meant to be driven on the street! If can't get this done within 3 years, something unforeseen will have happened because normally a project like this takes most people 12-18 months to complete. So for a number of reasons, building this car just seems to be the right thing to do.
- The car looks like it would be a blast to drive!
- I enjoy playing mechanic
- It's better than just sitting around watching TV
- Did I say the car looks like it would be a blast to drive?!!
- It gives me something to focus on, rather than sitting around wondering if cancer is going to show up at my next check-up.
- Chicks dig hot cars..
- The car looks like it would be a blast to drive!
- Oh, I'm married, I didn't say "chicks dig hot cars!" My loving wife digs hot cars!
I have always tried to maintain and repair my own vehicles, but I've certainly never tried building my own car. One day a friend at work (Chris) mentioned that he had been working on an old Jeep and then later mentioned some problems that he had been having with his Ford Focus. Some how or another that led to him mentioning the fact that he thought it would be fun to build a Factory Five Roadster. I had never looked seriously into building a car, but after he loaned a Promo DVD from Factory Five Racing to me, I was HOOKED and decided that there's no time like the present, so I ordered the kit on 01/25/06!
Factory Five Racing http://www.factoryfive.com/ sells several different types of kit cars. After watching the DVD http://www.factoryfive.com/table/company/infopage/infopack.html I knew that I wanted to build their MKIII Roadster. http://www.factoryfive.com/table/ffrkits/roadster/mark3/mk3release.html .
Basically you pay FFR (Factory Five Racing) $13,000 and they will sell you the MKIII Roadster kit which includes everything you need to build the car except for a bunch of parts that can be obtained from an old Ford Mustang. You also have to pay to have it shipped, or drive up to Wareham, MA. and pick it up yourself. I paid Stewart Transport $1200 to deliver the kit to me. I figured that I'd rather pay $1200 instead of spending several days driving up to Wareham. After motel costs, fuel costs, wear and tear on my truck, trailer rental and 3-5 wasted days, the $1200 price was a deal for me.
So, as I stated earlier, WELCOME. I hope you enjoy reading about my car building adventure. There are sure to be some twists and turns as I try to "git er dun."
