However, the other thing you’re talking about?  They’re called kit cars.  Companies like Factory Five and Superformance already do that kind of stuff.  Every state deals with them differently.

The assembled vehicle is not even REMOTELY legal to sell as a road vehicle in the United States.  Thank your fine friends in the Federal Government for what they have done to this country.  And be sure to thank your local “Law Enforcement” as well, for it is THEY who were the enablers.

It’s entirely legal to sell as a kitcar, which is exactly what this is.

It’s not legal as a new car, because of modern safety standards.  Which is not a bad thing.  Libertarianism taken to the “You’re not letting me sell deathtraps anymore!” extreme is a bit much.

67-69 Camarobirds as well, but I don’t see GM crowing about that licensing agreement..

Said designer heard to opine, only partly tongue in cheek: “Might as well have a Royal Society for  the Prevention of Rain.”

The assembled vehicle is not even REMOTELY legal to sell as a road vehicle in the United States.  Thank your fine friends in the Federal Government for what they have done to this country.  And be sure to thank your local “Law Enforcement” as well, for it is THEY who were the enablers.

Sadly, sometimes something just breaks, and you don’t have a chance to avert what happens next.

It’s not inherently far off of car companies strategies of reviving old classics, but instead of modernizing them, you’re getting the old form with new internals.  That’s actually a real product.

The power steering decided to give out just as I was turning a bend doing about 80km/h on a freeway. Driving a car that is supposed to have power steering that has given out is not the same as driving a car that does not have power steering. The car swung across the lane next to me into one of the oncoming lanes. At this point with both arms pulling violently on the wheel I managed to get the car back to where it was supposed to be. I turned on the hazard lights, slowed right down and managed to take the next exit and find a park. By the time it was done I was covered in sweat from the effort of trying to steer the bloody thing. Unless I had received some very specific training I can’t see how being a better driver would have helped much. The only this whole thing didn’t cause any accidents was thankfully a lack of traffic.

There was also this incidence in Melbourne in 2009.

You’re trolling. If someone runs a stop sign and hits your car, how is that preventable, or reflective of your skill as a driver?

-Xzibit

There is no such thing as an “accident”. 

Oh, for f*ck’s sake.  Look up ‘accident’ in a decent dictionary.  

Here, I’ll help.  From  Merriam-Webster:

[...]
2a : an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance
[...]

Most accidents are preventable – the word doen’t mean what you seem to think it means.  ’Accidental’ is the antonym of ‘intentional’, not the antonym of ‘preventable.’

 they are are all preventable. That process starts with driver training and skill. Apparently your  friends are lacking in those things.

Preventable or not, it’s possible his friends were the victims of someone else’s lack of training or skill.  

No matter how skilled a driver I may be, I can’t prevent someone from rear-ending me at a stoplight, or having a defective tie rod snap and make the car not respond to steering input – both of which have happened to me.

Both of those things were accidents, and nether of them could have been prevented by better driver training or skill. (The guy who rear-ended me had a massive stroke while driving, so that one wasn’t even ‘preventable.’ )

If you can’t bother to dispel your ignorance by looking up a word, at least try not to be a jerk about it.