This Cobra rep looks like a heck of a deal for someone.

[1985 CCX]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

While people here may be familiar with the background, to most these are one-off low volume cars with little or no current support. Can you get replacement parts? A first-time owner is much more likely to stay with a known brand than one of these. No matter how good they are they aren't well known outside of a small circle.

Maybe not, these cars were built like a HiTech, CSX Cont, KMS so my guess is not hard to support at all. My guess is easier and faster than many cars on the market.

[patrickt]

If you're going to drop a hundred grand on a toy like this you either: 1) need to have some reasonably decent mechanical skills; or 2) have enough money that it really doesn't matter to you. I kind of think that if you, say, managed to bend a suspension component on a car like this all you'd really have to do is get it off, post a few pics of it with an "oops, who can help me with a little fabbing" post, and I think you'd be ok.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by patrickt

If you're going to drop a hundred grand on a toy like this you either: 1) need to have some reasonably decent mechanical skills; or 2) have enough money that it really doesn't matter to you. I kind of think that if you, say, managed to bend a suspension component on a car like this all you'd really have to do is get it off, post a few pics of it with an "oops, who can help me with a little fabbing" post, and I think you'd be ok.

If you do your homework you'll find that somewhere between 10% and 20% of the cobra owners know about this place. I don't know how many at car shows I mentioned it to. Same with the ford gt forum. Most people aren't into forums. Facebook is where it's at

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

If you do your homework you'll find that somewhere between 10% and 20% of the cobra owners know about this place. I don't know how many at car shows I mentioned it to. Same with the ford gt forum. Most people aren't into forums. Facebook is where it's at

Naaah, any decent hotrod site where old guys like us are doing their own work out of love for the task. The real key is not that you're a five star metal fabricator, but more that you've been doing as much as you can for 30, 40 or 50 years. If you can pull a transmission out and replace a clutch then you can do 98% of anything that ever needs to be done on an Exact, ERA, KMS, SPF or FFR. And OTOH, if you're comfortable dropping Bugatti type repair costs regularly, then that's fine too. But you and I both know that it's pretty cheap to keep these cars running like a top if you just know how to do it.