Dodge Magnum?

Sounds like instructions from a Dirty Harry script, right? Audi A8? Whatever. One of the nice things about living here at the tag end of the internal combustion era is that you can own just about any damn thing you like. Although I'm sticking with my own little mid-life crisismobile, it's certainly comforting (to me, anyway) that simply by writing a check you can go whizzing down the boulevard in something you fantasized about in your adolescence. Consider:

Porsche Speedster	Talbot Lago
1995 Saturn SW2 (seriously, if you don't know what this kit is copying, you need remedial 1960s training.)	Sort of a Morgan
1936 Auburn Boattail	Lotus Eleven

All of these are replicas, powered and underpinned by modern engines and frames. All are more reliable, better handling, and more powerful than the cars they simulate (notice I didn't say anything about "safer.") And these are just the standouts -- Lotus 7 replicas abound, street rods are everywhere, and if you've got a spare pickup truck lying around, you can make a Humvee out of it. What's my point? None, I'm just pleased that this stuff is out there. For a nice illustrated list of kit cars, see this site. And don't blame me if you show up for work next week driving a $75,000 kit car Willys coupe, based on a 1972 Piaggio Ape donor. No warrantee is expressed or implied.