[What'saCobra?]

HA! I thought so! You've got a copy of some, at least. Great.

You are TOO kind. Thanks for your discretion. No pun, thanks. Keep the balance between your knees, old chum, or Finland's joy will 'ner see light of day though legatium eyeballs.

Yup, i would sorely like to get together enough interest to get David Kirkham et al to do a line of AC-type "289" Sports. His engineering upgrades, fit and finish are the bee's knees, IMHO. Of course, it would have to be aly unpainted for me. Punched from pure aly-clad unobtainium and polished regularly by my slave concubine.

Did i tell you i used to fly an all aly aircraft? In fact, they nearly ALL were all aly. Engines, fuel tanks (OK, a few of the bigger and better had bag liners inside the tanks), control surfaces (OK, a few were covered in either cotton, ceconite or magnesium and very little plastic (OK, a few had naugahide [you ever catch a nauga and skin him?] interiors and Royalite molded surfaces on the panel, window and door surrounds.) Never flew any that weren't aly engines, though.

Cars are mostly still a little behind the times (well, i have seen the NSX and a few comp. Ferreri), but an all aly Kirkham would perhaps finally satiate my Cob lust? Certainly the famous and "original Shelby's" are not enough, unless they are reworked so much that most knowledgable folks (and perhaps me, myself and i) would gag at the modifications, innovations and habituations.

AKL is just fine of course, for most humanoids, but it needs to lose another 200 or 300#'s. -100# on the engine, -40#'s on the tranny/driveshaft, -40#'s on the 3rd member (axle to the newly initiated), -30 #'s on the bumper sets and perhaps another -20 #'s from the interior. But, then it would look pretty klugie and not a pure hot streeter. Better to start fresh with a stripper, say wot?

Of course, you know a 2 liter Lola 212 or Chevron B16 is mucho faster out of the box on any day, don't you? 300+HP, monocoque aly tub and 525 kg can't be all wrong! But, they are complicated to put on the street. Not impossible, just complicated.

Wonder if i should write the boys?