Typically, I begin a relationship with a potential customer on a no-cost basis. If you have a project, and are serious about developing it, I will look it over, make comments, and may even give you a cost estimate. However, I try to limit my actual design work to a minimum. I have spent hundreds of hours at a drawing board working on designs from electric cars to fertilizer spreaders only to have the potential customer loose interest, abandon the project, or simply disappea r. I believe there are real opportunities in the kit car industry for new and original designs.
Kit cars differ radically.
Probably the simplest is the dune buggy type body mounted on a VW pan. A more ambitious project would be a sports car body requiring an interior shell, door, hood, and trunk molds in addition to the main body mold. To make this auto ready for kit car production would likely cost three times that much. A part-time business of building and selling air scoops for hot rods might well be launched for less than you paid for your auto insurance last year. I get asked a lot of questions about three wheelers.