I bought a new Hurricane!!

[dlampe]

Well, I flew to "no where" Iowa Friday to check out the rumors about the new Hurricane car company. There was a lot of snow and it was about 5 degrees!!! I was the only one in a Hyundai Sonata in the whole county! I want to tell you that this is like no other Cobra builder I have ever met. They are a huge family owned company that builds garbage trucks. Ironically, the garbage truck model is called the "Cobra". I think they sold over 1300 "Cobras" last year. Their plant sets on a 25 acre spread with more buildings than I can count. Their fabrication shop has CNC and some kind of water jet cutting thing, I don't know. There is more stuff in there than I can describe! The glass shop is incredible. Just the glass operation is the size of a large company all by itself. They have a full time master mold maker on staff. They can do the chopper gun but also some kind of vacuum fiberglass process that they are going to use for stuff like doors, trunks, hoods and scoops. They had pallets of core mat just stacked up everywhere. It was impressive. Needless to say, they are well capitalized and are doing this for the right reason, because they think its cool!!

The really nice thing was I was able to buy HMS2002 which is the same chassis number I had with the original 1000 series. The frame was on the shelf already and the IRS was setting right next to it. The body is out of the molds and ready to be assembled. I was impressed with how much they had already completed. They plan to have complete kits in stock so you can go check out the facility, take a test drive in the factory demo and, after a little paperwork, load up your new x-mas present and go home. No wait at all.

Now the fun begins, what options, what color, how much horse power?

Merry X-mas to me, I'm off to the jewelry store. Mama isn't happy!