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Kit Car review TwinTech
“Located in Brighton, Michigan, Dave Piontek was laying around one evening watching American Chopper on television when he thought of an idea that would marry a space-frame chassis design with the rumble of a V-twin motorcycle engine. It wasn’t an entirely new concept for the former Ford design technician, as he’d created his Sportech (www.funcar.com) vehicle back in the late ‘80s using a 1,100cc motorcycle engine in a full carbon-fiber and Kevlar body. Dave approached this design a little differently, wanting it to be a bit more stylish but much more minimalistic—no doors, roof, or complicated body to deal with. To get things rolling, Dave turned to a pair of friends in the design and engineering world, Jay Novak and Kip Ewing… Kip is a degreed engineer with a lot of artistic tendencies, and he came up with some sketches based on what Dave and Jay knew would work.”