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Indeed.
While i am a real supporter of nearly all the attempts at continuing the Cobra mystique in the many years after SA abandonned the effort, one complaint has survived regarding many of the attempts.
Most of them were ill-handling beasts and did not reproduce either the svelt sweetness of the 289 or the brutish accuracy of the 427. Many many used such cheap and dumbly chosen componentry for their underpinnings and resulted in the finished kit resembling a mere caricature of its inspiration.
A few were dedicated to the quarter mile traps and had good rear end systems, but handled like dogs in the real world contry lanes.
But, despite their sometimes frail and wobbly results, they will all be forever in my graces because they kept the flame, as Peter Brock is wont to say from time to time. Peter knows all the details about how CS despised "those %&^$@! copycats" but also knows how the kitters made today's popularity possible. (He, of course, also deserves the accolades for his big time contributions and his current work on the new coupe.)
After all, could the Kirkhams do such magnificent work without the market established and expanded by the kitters and the release of dear Poland from fifty years of slavery?
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George Washington
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