[Wild Card 289]

Well, with all due respect to the dear gentleman who built the car, if you are expected to keep the rather upright windscreen angle (which usually on a Cobra replica means that the seating position is higher than it should be), the colour, and the strange position of the handbrake (why, I wonder?) - I would suggest staying away from this honourable mission!

If I´m reading the pictures right, the cockpit edge above the dash panel does not curve back towards the doors as it should do, and the windscreen is also mounted too far forward.

The live rear axle sure isn´t that great, either. My BRA 289 slabside has one. I have tried all sorts of links, panhard rods and traction bars. The car handles great on smooth roads and racetracks, but mid curve bumps at speed can make the car a handfull. You are sitting so close to the rear axle that you have a ringside seat on every hop and sidestep the axle makes.

There are so many good kits on the market these days. Take a good look around.