Dan and Daves visit to Alloycars

[CobraDan]

Dan, Dave, & Ingo Poth of Alloycars




Dave Hackney & I finally met with Ingo Poth last week & took pictures of Ingo’s prototype of building his first aluminum cobra in America. Ingo found an undone FFR kit on craigslist, believing it was a MKIV as the owner who sold it for his son did not really know as his soldiering son was stationed far away from home. Once the car came into the shop Ingo figured out it wasn’t a MKIV, as the selling date was marked 2006 so for Ingo he considered it might possibly be a MKIII....unfortunately, after his weekend showing at a local car show he was told by an owner of a FFR MKII build, that the cobra he had built in aluminum was also a MKII. As with his other build of his Aluminum bodied Spyder he actually wanted to build a more original style looking body of the cobra. With his new American crew who are specialized in building aluminum bodies, but having never built a cobra before their efforts were not in vane as they all learned a lot building this MKII in aluminum. He showed me a front fender that was done in 2 pieces & then welded together & then he showed me another front fender that was made all in one piece so it did not need any welding. The FFR MKII owner just purchased a MKIV from FFR & is having it delivered to Ingo to have him make an aluminum body for his future cobra build. The MKII aluminum body will be scraped as it was just a building project for his crew. Ingo’s first attempt & saleable aluminum cobra will be on a MKIV & fitted to the FFR frame. Ingo has built more than 150 cobras while he lived in Brazil. I came here first to the Club Cobra web site to show what my trip to Ingo’s shop provided in pictures & knowledge. This is now Alloycars first attempt in America in building an aluminum body cobra. The body will have a sub frame attached & then that will be attached to the FFR cars frame. At this time they will be working on making their first aluminum cobra for sale as a MKIV, which means removing that perky butt, sad but true. Ingo is going to make it happen & told me he can attach this aluminum style body to any cobra frame using a sub frame for support, naturally the more work involved, will change the sale price. At this time he said the MKIV aluminum body would cost around 16K - 20K, depending on the work involved (contact Ingo for a direct quote on any pricing), on top of the kit price from FFR. A lot of things are happening at Alloycars & as I learn of them you will be the next to know.

FFR MKII Prototype


That FFR Perky Butt