Cobra Replica newbie

[LMH]

This sounds like a pretty good car from the ad. It has a late model FI engine, so it's MPG and reliability is going to be about as good as it gets. The price is really quite low for a built car.

A word of caution, you can really get burned buying a car someone else built, especially if you're not familiar with these cars. It's only as good as it's builder. From what I can see, this car looks pretty well built but you never know for sure until you see it in real life.

Take a look: Replica/Kit Makes 2 Door | eBay
Larry

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by LMH

This sounds like a pretty good car from the ad. It has a late model FI engine, so it's MPG and reliability is going to be about as good as it gets. The price is really quite low for a built car.

A word of caution, you can really get burned buying a car someone else built, especially if you're not familiar with these cars. It's only as good as it's builder. From what I can see, this car looks pretty well built but you never know for sure until you see it in real life.

Take a look: Replica/Kit Makes 2 Door | eBay
Larry

Yep - that is probably about as good a value as you will ever find, even if you have to go through it and fix a couple things. But, you're wanting a Cobra replica for all the wrong reasons. These are terrible cars for daily use - hot, loud, generally stiff to hard riding, very little to no weather protection, difficult to get in and out of, and usually require some regular mechanical upkeep. I got mine to the point of being able to back it out of the garage yesterday and honestly with the pedal position and seating position I don't know if I will ever be able to drive this thing in traffic.

A few guys have used them for daily drivers - there is a guy here in Ark that has some incredible no of miles (over 300,000 I believe) on a FFR car like the one in the ad. But, they are unique, hardy individuals who know every inch of their car and how to maintain it.

[Ron61]

Here is one that is in Sacramento Calif. that I know of. One of the people I know who is a mechanic and works on Cobras has looked at it and said it is a very well built car and he would like to have it but he already has one.
But like all of the people above have said, these cars do not make good daily drivers.

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Ron