Madmaxx Most of the ERA guys don't flip there cars for a possible quick profit and build another. ERA has a square tube frame as compared to a round tube frame. Shelby is a money pig looking for any place to get a dollar in his pocket, IMO.
As of the SCCA race that was at VIR, the Shelby-SPF joint was done. The officials on sunday would not let Dennis O. run his coupe with the Shelby cars even though he was a dealer and distributor now of Shelby cars. Dana or Salibury rearends have the same basic look. The main case is designed after the Dana 44 rear case. 98% of the cobra came with Jag rearends. The drag cars would be the only ones to have a solid axle setup. No the originial cobra didn't come with power steering. This is an opition you can get from ERA and some of the other builders. You might want to THINK out side of the box for a minute and ask yourself WHY are all these cars for sale??
I did leave out 2 companies that would have a higher resale valve that ERA, both build Aluminium body cars. When all is said and done you will have about 50K with a 427FE motor in any cobra. The only place you can save money is on the body work and painting of the car.
If you are lucky and have the right color and drivetrain in your car you MIGHT break even on resale.
Max I am not saying any thing bad about other companies and gald you are happy with your SPF. The guys that race them do very well. There are alot of opitions for your cobra with bigger brakes and tires, P/S, motor and trans combos, Fuel injection stack setups. Alot of the SPF cars are running 351 strokers in the 390- 427" cubes. They are lighter and faster than the FE iron block motor cars. Looking forward to your buildup. I have driven 4 different cobras. You can't compare them to each other, because of suspensions, wheels and tires, different motors and transmissions. They all drove great. There is some other info I will not talk about on this forum. If you want to know you can private e-mail me. Rick L.