The Virginia Muscle Car

(Building a Factory Five Daytona Kit Car)

Once I found out Shelby had made a Coupe and a kit version was available from Factory Five (FF) , I considered building one. I then started to take a closer look at the details of this kit, from a car-guy and engineer's point of view. There are other kits but the cost/performance ratio and quality made this kit look good to me. In addition, Shelby must think Factory Five makes a good kit; so much so that he had to gone to court twice to sue FF for infringement rights, but has failed both times. So in June of 2009, I had a confirmed order and in several months finished building a garage (somewhere to build the kit and also house my wife's car). The pieces started arriving by truck in January and they are in my new garage now. I am organizing and taking inventory of the things I need and developing a schedule (all subject to change as family things arise). Over the next few months I will provide pictures of my progress, so stay tuned.

UPDATE: For the most part, the car is completed. I have since made some adjustments and debugged the engine. The cam is a COMP Cams XE274HR with COMP Cams hydraulic roller lifters and roller rocker arms. The below link is a 10 sec video of the engine running. I am very pleased with the way the car turned out. ~George

(Kit as delivered)