I began building this back in 1995 after my father and I purchased a number of RM kits from a group in Canada. I took one of the bare chassis and body sets and decided that i wanted to build myself a fun daily driver that could do some occasional track duty. It took an antire fall, winter and spring to get it done, but I was driving it fully street legal(sort-of) and titled here in PA the next summer.
The car was a highly modified RM-7 chassis with a Toyota 4-AGE motor, T-50 transmission, dual Mikuni PHH-40 carbs, Electromotive HPV-1 crank trigger ignition, custom header, Mazda GSL disk brake/LSD rear, Isuzu Impulse front uprights/brakes, lots of AutoMeter gauges and hundreds of hours of work.
The nice thing about the RM "kits" is the fiberglass body pieces. Some may like them and some may hate them, but its what I had and decided to build it that way. It came out pretty good for my first build and hopefully the next one will be better. I'm currently working on one for my father and hope to have it done so he has something fun to drive this summer. After that, we still have one more "kit" in storage and I might get to build one for myself. After finding these pictures, it brings back memories of how much fun these cars are.
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