[hodson]

Spookypt

I have just recently had my Harrison delivered by warwick and registered in April 2009. warwick built the entire car with me supplying the engine & gearbox (2003 2004 Mach 1 Mustang 4.6 quad cam & Tremec 5 speed gearbox), wheels (Vintage wheels) & tyres(Falken 456), wiring, paint job, upholstery, Ford computer override board & hot tune and gauges(Autometer). I kept a very accurate spreadsheet on the costs. The car came in at $107,000. This did not include freight to Townsville ($2000 in covered truck), Engineering ($1320 Ray Cross), Registration, TPI & stamp duty ($3695 that was valuing the car at $65,000 for stamp duty purposes) or comprehensive insurance ($1200 for full value of car at $107,000). Approx 2 years at Warricks shop in construction, 4 airfares and accomodation to fly down and see it as well as attend club breakfasts.

If you are interested, I am more than happy to send you the spreadsheet. you would just need to wipe the costs out and put your own in as they occur or put them alongside for comparison.

I went down this road as I have been wanting a cobra for over 30 years and for one reason or another I never acually got around to starting it. It became a matter of buy one this way or not get one as I am just too busy at work.

As much as I would have really enjoyed the building of it myself (I'm a mechanical engineer and have a full engineering workshop) I worked out that if I spent the same time in my business as it would take me to build the car, I could make much more money out of my business than what the car would cost to have built. The best part is that I now have the car and am really enjoying myself driving it around as against looking down the barrel of a couple of years still building it. The way my work life goes I would be still building it when I retired.

Hope this has helped


Col Hodson