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Originally Posted by Antny
Yeah, I understand the difference. But I'm simply talking about how these cars came to be. Shelby bought rollers and stuffed engines into them. Much the way most of our cars came to be. So in a sense, all of these cars, including the originals, are "kit" cars...or whatever term makes us sleep better at night. :-)
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Pre-sale manufacturing process, performed by the OEM and its subcontractor(s), versus a post-sale manufacturing process, performed by the buyer and/or the independent shop that they hire to install the tranny, engine, clutch, exhaust, alignment, etc.
In fact, the early 4000 series could have been purchased in a much more incomplete form, where the buyer could actually do most of the assembly process. I looked at Bernica's CSX4250 before buying my Kirkham and I actually still have pictures of the original owner assembling the car from nearly the ground-up like an ERA, if you want to build your ERA and not have them do the work.
But you guys can see it differently than I and never will the two (opinions) meet.
All I'm hoping here is that Internet articles that get posted here on Club Cobra actually know the history of subject matter that it purports to know and write about. And not pass along BS stories like Shelby CSX4000's use original frames.