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Old 07-15-2014, 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by mullen2 View Post
For the Kirkham guys who own Kirkham Shelby's or KMP cars these are very well built by artisans and are more durable being manufactured using aircraft 14 guage material an Tig welded . The shape in the 289 and 427 differs from the original however they represent great quality and value.

As far as I understand the Kirkham 427 bodies are formed over dies that are taken from a wooden master buck. This buck was CNC milled from surface data created with a laser or white light scanned/respectively tactile measured point cloud of a CSX 3000 car: Kirkham bodies

You can tell the shape is spot on when comparing them with pictures of CSX3000 comp or S/C cars.

This is not the case for the Autokraft MKIV, so with due respect for the guys at AC Heritage I can hardly agree with the above statement.

Simon

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