Bear in mind the Native Motors Rally Fighter? With its crowdsourced design that mixed a sports activities automotive with an off-roader and a classification as a equipment automotive that made it 50-state authorized, it was the type of factor few individuals would really wish to personal however just about anybody might recognize. For those who drove one, you have been assured to get consideration in every single place you went.
Solely about 100 Rally Fighters have been ever constructed earlier than manufacturing stopped, so that they’re extremely uncommon. However in case you’ve been kicking your self for not shopping for one new, we’ve some nice information. Vehicles & Bids at present has a Rally Fighter on the market with solely 600 miles on it. You probably have the cash, this one might be yours for the low, low worth of “be ready to pay up large time, pal.” There are nonetheless seven days left on the public sale, and on the time of writing, it’s already as much as $42,000.
Doug Demuro additionally posted a video assessment of the Rally Fighter, and along with speaking about all of the quirks and options, he additionally mentions one particularly attention-grabbing piece of data: Apparently, the vendor used to work for Native Motors, and when manufacturing shut down, he purchased the rights to the Rally Fighter. So despite the fact that it’s not in manufacturing anymore, in case you actually desire a model new one, it’s technically nonetheless doable.
And contemplating it’s an ultra-low-volume automotive, you guess the Rally Fighter has loads of oddities to speak about. For instance, because it has Honda-sourced door handles, you utilize a Honda key to get in. However the steering column got here from Ford, so it’s a must to use a Ford key to really begin the engine. The engine, in the meantime, is a 6.2-liter LS3 that Chevrolet used within the Corvette on the time. It actually was a Franken-car, but it surely was an superior Franken-car.
We’re actually to see how a lot this Rally Fighter finally ends up promoting for. The worth has already climbed so shortly, $100,000 appears inside attain. Then once more, when Deliver A Trailer offered a 3,300-mile Rally Fighter just a few months in the past, it offered for $75,000. Whilst you wait to seek out out whether or not this automotive’s low mileage helps push it into six-figure territory, you’ll be able to watch Doug’s assessment of it beneath: