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Found this in my neighborhood last night

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I was driving home after work and kid pick up and saw this on the street near my house. I don't know if it is real but I suspect it is as there is a "foreign" car shop about 3 blocks away that specializes in Ferraris. Either way, pretty nice ride.
(Ok, I will put the pics in the album for this room as I am not sure how to include them here.)

Figured this out after the fact.... :smile:
 

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Kit car, well done, but still a kit car. Did you happen to peek inside and see if the interior still showed some 280Z remnants?
 
It looks like it could be the real McCoy. Looks kind of rough though don't it? Work in progress perhaps.

Still not your normal "guess what I saw today".
 
nice - yesterday saw 2 Masarati's - including a biturbo on the side of the road - which I gather is pretty much its natural habitat
 
I agree with Ron, its an early Z-car kit. They make decent looking clones.

Compare to a real one... for one, the real ones have a more curved (side to side) rear window and the nose is longer. There is a lot more minutia as well.
 

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Swift 6 is telling you true. See I recognized it as a kit, as my friend has one. Which does have the interior almost Ferrari'ed..

There are several different nosecones, depending on which kit company. But like 6 says the window curve, also the door openers and the wheels. No one that I know of would get rid of the Ferrari(Borrani) wires, especially not on a car that's stratospheric in the price range.
 
Geez, Shawn. Ya hadda go an' post that!

...now I gotta go kick th' Alfa again...
 
My initial hunch was it was a kit - the thing that put the seed of possibility of it being real was the fact that 4-5 blocks away is a shop specializing in Italian cars. Needless to say, real or kit, quite a surpise to see it parked on the street in a Chicago city neighborhood! :smile:
 
surprise even! lol
 
DrEntropy said:
Geez, Shawn. Ya hadda go an' post that!

...now I gotta go kick th' Alfa again...
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Hold up the picture of the GTO and berate the ALFA for being lazy. "Why can't you be more like your cousin Luigi!" :wall: :devilgrin:
 
Lessee....where could I fence something like that and then open an account in the Caymans while I hide somewhere! :laugh:
 
The give-away to it being a kit at first glance are the rear brake-vents which should be open to allow the hot air to exit! I doubt that a genuine one, given their current value, would be being driven in that kind of a rough state!
 
google alpha 250 gto

built originally by Joe Alphabet in California
 
One heckuva kit car - warts & all - but, look at the hoods on the kit & real car to see the difference...

Still, if it appeared in my driveway, I'd not kick it out!
 
Good looking kit, I can see the Z cars lines in the rear window. Very nicely done.
 
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