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The emergence of kit cars or component cars had been around since shortly after the automobile came into existence. There was a wave of fiberglass-bodied designs that were sold to independent builders in the 1950s and 1960s. However, a new wave of component manufacturers, plus better technology, emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.
It is fair to say that these titles were essentially an advertising platform for kit car manufacturers and distributors. Feature vehicles were meant to convey the message, "you can do this too!" Most issues had very few technical articles, with generally just one, or at best two, "how to" write-ups. The content tended to skew towards VW-powered cars and highly popular replica vehicles like the AC Cobra, Lotus 7, vintage Porsches speedsters and others. As these titles continued to be published, a boring pattern of content repetition emerged.
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