[Winchester67]

That rumor makes sense, with all the kits out there. Problem is the guy that drives a Kirkham is a lot different than the guy that builds a Factory Five, yet the bean counters at the insurance company lump all Cobra Kit Cars together. So a few claims can affect the cost symbol assigned to a car. (the cost symbol is based on the value of the car when a new model is introduced...20,000 car, cost symbol is 20. But if it is expensive to fix or a bunch of kids like the car and drive the losses up, the cost symbol jumps. So a $20,000 car with bad loss experience might have a cost symbol of 50, which hikes the rates) At least that was the way it was 20 years ago when I was in insurance before I got an honest job in the gun industry.