Amidst the angst I do feel there is some well deserved credibility coming to the rodding world in terms of acceptance of the new era of kits . Call 'em "turnkeys" or "nearly finished rollers" or whatever the evolving identifications become. An example of this credibility has to be Street Rodder Magazine s Street Rod of the Year 2002 which went to a Downs '37 Ford truck… never-the-less someone out there will still call it a "kit car". Truth be told, and using the strictest of definition, most of what we see today are kits of some stripe. Good kit, bad kit, whatever, it is simply a matter of taste… there are obviously some folks who won't like it.  cnn money