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Ok guys..first one to send me £10k gets a Cabrio Coupe... <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

going to see a man on sunday f,,k this think i will have a go at it nice to b the one that dos it,see what he says,will post

As per my post the hard bit is getting it street legal when all the work has been done..I guess its possible to avoid an SVA but I doubt you'd get another MOT without it and insurance would be invalid.

I'd have thought an SVA would be 'fairly' easy (compared to building a car from scratch)? You know that most things would pass ok as a given, so you only have to make sure everything is strong, and the seatbelts are correctly positioned etc?
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Apparently not..used to be..but new regs (I'm told) means all safety critical welding and seatbelt mountings must be done by a licenced safety welder and certified. saw something on the telly the other night about a guy who rebuilt one of those 60's boat car things and the regulator boys had a field day going through the paperwork for safety certs, welders, inspections etc..its do able but not as easy as it was.

been on phone with my guy he says no f......ing way you have to have some sort of blue print done by an expert then you have to supmit that to some one and then they work it out to c if it works our not by this time its cost to much well i tryed

I can't believe that every person who makes a kit car has to go through proving all that?
Many kits sold still require a large amount of work using parts from Donor cars, as well as riveting, welding etc. It would be the death of the kit industry if you had to prove that all this work was carried out by qualified bods?

um this guy has worked at cars all his life who r you to dout him dave i am telling you what might happen.

Easy! No tone needed, i'm not doubting what the new rules may be, i'm just saying that I can't believe that EVERY self builder of kit cars proves the person doing the welding and fabrication is qualified, in most cases they built it themselves after all?
But then i'm not an expert as you kindly pointed out.

Re-reading Skodamans post (which I was mainly replying to), I guess the key is in the safety critical bit, so presumably as long as the kit chassis, roll bars and seatbelt mountings are prefabricated or welded by someone qualified the rest of the build could be done by someone off the street?

In the case of the Coupe cabriolet, you could do an awful lot yourself, such as removing the interior, cutting of the roof, sourcing, measuring and cutting of the materials, it would leave just the welding of those parts to a qualified bod, probably not for a huge cost either?

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o sorry mate got carried away a bit thought you didunt beleve me,truth is no one seems to no for sure i was going by what he said,but beleve me i would be willing ,so would he to give it a shot, ill bet that some one will,and soon,its that money thing

Of course its possible to do a homebuild / kitbuild car. However most of them are built from plans where somebody has worked out the hard bits before. Except that there are no plans for a cabrio coupe which makes it harder.

Love to do it but whats the value afterwards of a '96 Coupe Turbo softop with 85k on it?

Only economic way yot do it would be to buy a new Malaysian car and ship it straight to the body shop..£10k for the car, £10k for the conversion...