The owner will be getting properly rinsed at that price. God knows what Retropower's build cost will have been.
Trouble is it's neither one thing or the other. Not a replica of the Zero but also a bit too far removed from a Stratos for those interested in a Stratos.
Last edited by LPH_UK; 24-04-2025 at 20:12.
Hmmm. Having reflected on it for 14 months I'm now not so sure. It really is neither fish nor fowl and when it was at a daft price I thought there was probably enough daft folk out there to go for a one-off daft car. I'm less sure now who would go for it.Originally Posted by renmure
C'mon Jim, if they covered it in stickers and threw a few extra lights on it you'd be all over it!
Haha. To be fair, it does look a bit plain.
Well, it's the usual thing. It's lovely to be able to have something made that's to your personal, exacting specification, but the problem is that when you try to sell it, you find out that your personal, exacting spec isn't shared by anyone else.... at which point, assuming you don't desperately need the moolah, you decide to keep the thing and have some fun in it, probably chief pastime among that long list of Fun Things being pitching up at Strat enthusiast meetings and pissing off other owners (and you should also be partial to the possibility of being beaten to a pulp, too)
They?ve probably been changing the cambelt in the 14 months between adverts. The price drop is probably to reflect the fact that it is impossible do do without borking the timing therefore the car itself has a limited shelf life of 3 years max :-P
See, that's exactly why they shoulda ditched the daft supercharged Busso idea and just gone for an off-the-shelf supercharged Toyota/Lotus unit. Supercharger installation already worked out, and no timing belts to worry about either - timing chain replacement recommended at 100K miles, which for the majority of Strat installations, means "never"
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