Imagine this Eagle SS with a Zetec? Or a Duratec? Or a Cosworth YB (evil chuckle)!

You'd have a good engine wasted on a crap car. They were heavier than the donor they were built from.

for god's sake pete pull your finger out and get ripped into browsers idea from the start of the thread will you.

Stop poncing about and be more assertive, set him straight with your ideas you big poof

A bloke round the corner from me had one of those when they were current. As soon as he'd built it he got rid as it was crap to drive and you couldn't see out of it.
http://www.than.org/cgi-bin/frame.pl?url=/2408831719.html
Here's another if you want to see what happens to most of them

OK, so they're crap, that never stopped anyone buying Austin Allegro's did it?
ANyway, who gives a toss if it's heavy and you can't see out of it, ever heard of a Lamborghini Countach?
I did suggest fiting a YB turbo motor, that'd help haul the weight along.

It's not going to help it go round corners or stop though is it . If Countach's went like the thing Howard built there'd be a lot more of them in the scrapyards. The doors didn't fit either and it let more wet in than my Locost

Moan, moan, complain, complain! Anybody'd think you expected a kit car to, well, fit together properly and, good God I can hardly bring myself to say it, WORK!
D'you realise what lengths the industry'd have to have gone to in those days to produce a product like that? I mean, they'd have to have developed the thing, corrected the faults they found with the prototype, listened to negative feedback from customers and actually acted on information thus gathered. Sheesh, the companies would actually have to have given a toss about the punters they were robbing blin SORRY, sorry, selling a 'supercar at affordable prices' to