Cobra Build Burnout ?'s

[John Poling]

It is well worth it. I have spent 1.5 years building mine and have invested about 900 hours to date. It is on its way to the interior shop today for carpeting, door panels and tonneau cover then comes about another 50-100 hours of work to complete it for summer enjoyment. There have been several times where I have almost given up and shelved the project but opted to hang in there and now it is almost complete. Well at least as complete as possible until I start the improvement stage.

I have about 200 miles on mine before I disassembled it this last time for body and paint and have spent about 150 hours re-assembling it to its current state as shown in my gallery. It has been assembled and disassembled completly 2 times and is now on its third and final (planned) assembly.

I also had done modifications of items that A&C did that I was not happy with only to scrap my mods and start over, so expect to do things only to redo them later. My suggestion would seem to be the popular one here, DON"T USE SCRAPYARD PARTS! You'll only regret it later. The only thing on mine that was "scrapyard is the steering column but I completely disassemble it and replaced all wearing items. Maybe I am one of the lucky ones, but I have not had any problems with mine that was because of shortcuts or used parts, there are none and this is the only way to build a reliable Cobra that you can enjoy.

Keep your chin up and don't give in, it's worth it in the end.

John