"Sorting out" Issues...

[Tommy]

Steve,
In the big time auto industry, auto repairs on new cars are tracked by model and plotted on a graph with the number of repair on the vertical axis and miles plotted on the horizontal axis starting at zero. Over time this graph has come to be known as the bathtub curve:


The shape of the curve has improved over the years as manufacturers have gotten better at making problem free cars that last longer. But I doubt that applies to small scale manufacturers of specialty cars equipped with aftermarket drive trains. .... My point is that with cars like Cobra replicas, there is no typical sorting out period. These are not daily drivers like Hondas and Chevrolets. These are replicas of race cars that were sold as street cars only to meet the requirements of their racing classes. For many of us, sorting them out is a never ending process.