Like the title says, this blog is about the multi-year process of building a Ferrari F355 replica on a 3” stretched 1988 Pontiac Fiero chassis, powered by a ’97 Cadillac Northstar engine and Pontiac G6 six speed manual transmission. Not exactly ground breaking stuff in the kit car world, except that I have a few surprises up my sleeve.
In Sep 2008 I bought the partially completed kit car from a friend who had lost interest after professionally stretching the frame behind the passenger compartment, and installing the rear quarters, roof, and doors from an International Fiberglass (IFG) body kit. The donor car had 97,000 kms on the clock. I bought it "as-is" and have been working to do it justice ever since. After all, an '88 GT deserves better than to languish as an unfinished kit.
So here it was in all its glory as the transport truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver the car to Nova Scotia from Cornwall, Ontario.
In Sep 2008 I bought the partially completed kit car from a friend who had lost interest after professionally stretching the frame behind the passenger compartment, and installing the rear quarters, roof, and doors from an International Fiberglass (IFG) body kit. The donor car had 97,000 kms on the clock. I bought it "as-is" and have been working to do it justice ever since. After all, an '88 GT deserves better than to languish as an unfinished kit.
So here it was in all its glory as the transport truck pulled up in front of the house to deliver the car to Nova Scotia from Cornwall, Ontario.
It wasn't driveable so I had to use my ATV to tow it to the back of the workshop where the access door is. Here it is once it was dragged up and ready to be shoehorned into the shop.
Obviously it needed lots of work, money, space, and patience to make it look anything like a real F355, but I'm no stranger to this kind of work since I had built a Ferrari 308 replica 15 years earlier.
After a bit of shuffling about, it got squeezed into the shop and looked right at home with all the other projects.
After a bit of shuffling about, it got squeezed into the shop and looked right at home with all the other projects.
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