[patrickt]

Red, another thing you might want to think about is the fact that you probably don't know about some of the differences in the cars. If you don't know about them, then you can only roll the dice about whether they're going to be important to you (or not) when you do learn about them. What you want to avoid is having bought a kit/car, and then after a while, saying to yourself "boy, I sure I wish I had one that had a blah, blah, blah... or that didn't have a blah, blah, blah." There are some things that you just can't change -- ever. Take for instance my ERA, if you find out that a round tube design is really important to you then my ERA is never going to make you happy -- and that is "unfixable." You probably haven't given much thought to things like hip appearance, independent rear with inboard or outboard brakes, whether your roll bar is fully exposed, what way your wipers point, whether your pedals come up from bottom or down from the top, pin drives and how many pins there are, how your gear shaft handle looks, whether your radiator slants, if you want pusher fans or not, and the list goes on and on. If you said to yourself "I have no idea what he's even talking about on most of those things" then you need to put your checkbook away and spend the next few months reading every post on this forum and then make your decision in the spring.