[PanameraPat]

Good advise. They are in the US. And I certainly don't intend to buy anything without inspection. And if they look "really good" to me, likely a professional inspection (maybe by someone on this forum as I do not know any "Cobra replica specialists" who could value something like this if it is accurate). They are replica's and I don't think the owner or anyone else is claiming anything but that they are replica's. If they are as accurate as the owner claims, maybe one could use the word recreation. Sounds to me that your opinion is that, even if very accurate to an original, lower market value than Kirkham due to the challenge of showing and proving the quality, which is exactly the challenge I face, so a very valid point.

Initially, I am just trying to get educated a bit before I look at them myself so I at least know what to look for to help determine my desire to spend some money finding and hiring someone with a lot more knowledge on something like this than me. And your opinion on "fair market value" of a "four car run" regardless of how good it is (or isn't) is valuable, so thanks again for that. Makes me smarter.

If they turn out to be nothing close to a VERY ACCURATE recreation, I'm not interested anyway. That should be easy to figure out on inspection even for an armature like me. Oversized ladder frame, hand made aluminum body (maybe a way to measure thickness of that aluminum?), gauges and interior that visually matches original, etc. etc. I understand that VERY ACCURATE alloy recreations can be purchased in $140K-$240K range (which is still A LOT more than just a few years ago) and with those there is a large enough run that quality is well known and documented. Believe me, a Kirkham is one hell of a car and worthy of the CXS honors for closest thing today to a true recreation! But if these turn out to be anything close to that level of accuracy, built in England 40 years ago, they are certainly interesting if nothing else........

The other issue will be storage for 25+ years without being started or run, so that part alone could be huge $$ for the right person to being them back. Who knows. But from what I was told of the cars (and know of the owner's history), I do believe I will find proper sized ladder frame, high quality hand built aluminum body and a very "proper" looking replica. I have no idea of condition. Or what a very good one-off alloy replica from that era would be worth.