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Old 06-24-2005, 04:52 AM
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Blair, yep, that's one of the good places. Also Ebay US.
If you find someone that won't ship overseas. You can use someone like http://shopthestates.com to forward items to you.

Rebel1, I've seen that cobra. The owner loves it and that's great for him...some interesting and well thought out engineering. I'm not offering an opinion on it as a Cobra though.

I can't see only $16k in it though. Factor in cost of chassis(Harrison), plus stuff you need to buy from Harrison at that time - Harris custom front arms & steering shaft. Then he had new 17" alloys & tyres, windscreen, new vdo gauges, engineer & rego cost...I'm nearly there already.

Craig did say he sold panels from wreck to fund chassis. Well that's $10k worth of panels...hmm. He must have also had a lot of parts sitting at home that he had previously purchased or parts he got for free from family or friends. Or he has a lot of mates in business that he could get free/cheap stuff. And didn't include all the small stuff that adds up to big $$$.

I think the $16k price was cost he told his partner.

I can certainly believe that it cost less than $30k...but coming along to a meeting and pushing the $16,400 price was a bit much to swallow.

I'm happy for anyone that can build a cheap Cobra and I reckon the best bang for buck Cobra's in QLD is Pete's gold DRB. Sensational value...we could all learn from that build. Still not a lot of change from $50k though.
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