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Duane:
Quick search over on ffcars.com revealed the following threads...plenty of pics here of the improvements of the Mk4 (the one that Mr_Bruce is offering you) over the Mk3 FFR body.
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Thanks Allen. The links and photos are helpful. Looking at the photos, I can immediately see what has changed and some things that have not. Aside from changing of the mounting points which our local body guy has been doing for years, on the new body you can see they worked to round the rear quarters a bit, dropped the tail height, but for some reason did not extend the rear section of the body to hand down a bit further and some of same issues on the door still exist if you look at what that guy had to do to full in areas on the body and doors to get it to line up reasonably. I'm not saying fiberglass bodies should be perfect, but as many cars/bodies that have been built and the time to redo the molds over and over, I can definitely see why ERA spent over a year or more alone on the new slabside body to try and nail it. Maybe I just need to look at something other than Cobras any more. Here is a door photo from that MK4 link / thread you sent that shows even after some work many of the same problems on the doors and body we saw on the M3, all still there. Hmmm. Definitely looks better but I see multiple things I would still want to change immediately; for example, I could see wanting to cut off both quarter panels right down the top-center spacing it out and adding about .75 to 1.0" inch width. For some reason, being super critical of shape, the body still looks like a hybrid cross of a 289/427 shape to me in the rear. Getting closer, but seems like a new speed racer Mk5 version is in order. Thanks for forwarding, very helpful to many I'm sure.
