What's the deal with Slabside pricing and availability?

[migge]

Austin Healey 3000 Aston Martin DB5 Nash Metropolitan AC Cobra Glove box lock. | eBay

[1985 CCX]

Nice part.
I just do not need one and too steep for me for shelf item.
Great for someone that does.

[LMH]

Nice as it has a key with it! Steep price though.
Larry

[Kit Coyle]

AH Spares in England is the vendor for the Austin Healy glovebox lock that
you see on ebay or at Moss. It sells for about 100 pounds and is very accurate.
It only lacks the key code stampings that you find on the early lock faces
where you have 3 letters on one side of the key hole and several numbers on
the other side. If your glovebox door is the same thickness as an Austin
Healy it will fit...if not, get creative.

[1985 CCX]

Again Kit, it's a short tongue and not exact.
The one on eBay is correct and the same as the one in my gold car.
The one in eBay now had longed tongue and exact.

Door is correct, geeze

[1985 CCX]

If my gold car was home I could picture.
This is correct version for sale by Migge

[1985 CCX]

Moss unit.
Note: short tongue

[LMH]

I'm hoping the tongue on eBay is the long version as I ordered one a couple days ago. If not, I'll have yet another paper weight! (Have quite a few now!)
Larry

[Kit Coyle]

Sorry for the confusion. Although there appears to be more than one tongue
length, for me, the problem was that the ERA replica glove box door was too
thick to accomodate the "barrel length" of the AH Spares part. The tongue
was never an issue. I was really only interested in the chrome trim piece and
the lock face so I could make up an authentic looking "knob." All these details
are quite a struggle and sometimes the form suffices without the function.

[1985 CCX]

Ah right KC.
Never had ERA but the original door thickness is thin.
Surprisingly thin. Guess we are on the same page now.

Larry, I too am overwhelmed with paperweights.
Hope we both got this one now.

[LMH]

Kit, you knew about this right: http://www.parts123.com/parts123/yb....Z5Z5Z50000027b
Larry

[Kit Coyle]

Thanks Larry. I ordered one of those after the lady told me that it was a chrome item. It was not chrome but rather a piece of aluminum rod stock
that was turned on a lathe with the turning marks still present. The keyhole
lock part was separately pressed in but the keyhole was not the right shape.
I sent it back. Aluminum does not look like chrome! CSX2047 was my daily
driver for five years back in my Navy days in La Jolla so I have memories of
that car that I'm trying to replicate in the ERA. The dash layout, the glovebox
knob, the gearshift lever with the syringe reverse lockout and other little
details on the original car have stuck with me all these years, so I am putting
these memories on the ERA. I even got a spare wheel hold down nut in cast
aluminum from Mickmate because I distinctly remember that oddball little
item! Now I'm pretty close...I think you guys on this site are probably the only
ones hip to our little obsession!

[LMH]

Cool! My boss was born at Naval Air Station North Island. Literally, he is a native Coronadoan. He also owned a 289 Cobra, in the 70's, bought from a guy in the navy stationed in San Diego. Apparently, the guy had a child on the way and needed more sensible transportation for his growing family. My boss bought a station wagon and traded it for the Cobra.
Larry

[Kit Coyle]

I was in an F-4 squadron at Miramar during Viet Nam and flew two fighter
tours off the Enterprise. I bought the Cobra in 1968 and sold it in 1973...
paid $3200 for the car and sold it for $6000 and thought I made a killing!
Just in November 2014 I bought the ERA 289 FIA replica. The ERA is a better
car than the 260 Cobra in many ways and looks pretty "real" to boot. Oddly
I bought the ERA in San Diego and stayed with an ex-F-4 pilot friend who had
been with me when I purchased my original Cobra in 1968 almost 48 years
ago! Life is strange!

[LMH]

Life IS strange! One of the local guys in our Cobra Club was an Air Force F-4 pilot in Viet Nam. Mensching is his name. Retired general of the air guard base here in Tucson. Pilots are all cut from the same cloth!

Also funny, I was digging through my photo collection and found this. I must have copied it from somewhere on the internet. Pretty cool!
Larry

[CompClassics]

Kit

Would you happen to have met instructors named, David Weiss or Don Kingery?

[Kit Coyle]

Larry...The guy who bought CSX2047 from me in 1973 still has the car and is
trying to sell it. That glovebox shot is one of many pictures from his recent ad on Hemmings. I used that very picture recently to make and install a leather
limiting strap on the glovebox lid on the ERA. The squadron parachute riggers
made that leather name tag for me and I stuck it on there in 1968 and it
sticks there still! The car was British racing green when I sold it and it is
now red, but my name tag remains! Seems like yesterday!

CompClassics...Those two instructor names don't ring a bell but they were
cranking out a lot of flyers through there for the F-8 and F-4 fighter RAGs as
NAS Miramar was the west coast fighter base...Fightertown USA they called it.

[LMH]

Nice job Jeff, thanks!
Larry

[desgros@vtlink.]

I took delivery my ERA MK II Slabside 289 BRG#3010 on 28 June 2014. After owning a Lone Star factory built 302 car for 12 years the ERA is a pure joy. Not only the original AC Ace style but the ERA build quality and service. As with most things in life you get what you pay for.

Truly a lifetime dream come true!
John
ERA #3010 Slabside

[RodKnock]

I think the better question is why would you install an original "Cobra engine" in a replica?