6GC Style Body For Ariel Atom, Custom ??? (dont get too excited) Options

[Flyinghumanoid]

I recently figured why waste tons of time and money now, when I could really enjoy it in the future. Anyway, After college I hope to be able to afford a decent 50k-60k car, the Ariel Atom. Street legal but not really a daily driver. So if I get measurements and start now I could have a pretty cool body for a really fast car by the time i could afford it. So heres my first question... Would a fully custom fiberglass body be legal as long as I use all DOT approved parts for lights, the windshield and such? If so, then there really isn't anything keeping me from it. EXCEPT the Honda engine. Maybe if I inquire for detailed measurements all the time I can get one made with a 4A-GZE or 3S-GTE since they are custom built to begin with.

[94gts]

Your right anything can be done, but moching up a custom body would be very difficult to do with out the actual car even for the most experienced builder. As far as legal, I'm sure if you designed it well enough you wouldn't have too many problems passing an inspection, like you said anything is possible. A hard top would be tough to pull off, you sit so far down in the atom that getting out any door would be a major hassle, you'ld need a door more like a GT40 that opens up part of the roof. Keep in mind fiberglass on the scale your talking about would be very heavy for such a small sporty car, best go carbon fiber seeing as price seems to be no object for this endevor.

Silver94CelicaOwner is right a lotus would be practicle solution to this. Check out the lotus super 7 for ideas. But I'm sure you'ld rather this tread be about legalities and such, so back to the real question...