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All this now seems to be coming together nicely.

Jim Price can build cars for SAI, he builds the Sperformance cars and is also the new owner of AC. I say good luck to him as in my contacts with him he comes accross as a straight guy and a good engineer. If this means that people have access to well engineered and built cars at an affordable price then hopefully the Cobra legacy will be even more enhanced. The low labour costs and weak exchange rate in South Africa are already used by BMW to succesfully export around 40,000 cars a year.

I pressume that the glass cars may be similar to the Carbon Fibre Series (CRS) that were sold by AC as a fully built vehicle for about $60,000 here in the UK. Jim has one of the largest autoclaves in the industry. It would make sense to build carbon composite cars as they would be much stronger and more stable than fibreglass. The AC factroy could be used as a development base and to build a small number of alloy cars on the original bucks. Last time I was in there they were fitting a 4.6 litre OHC Ford V8 to a CRS which would represent a logical update for people who love the looks but don't want the cost/hassles that come with the OHV engines.

All the above is conjecture on my part - it will be interesting to see how things develop.