Quality concerns between a $25k and $50K Cobra?

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I had an LAE that I put less than $27k in to build. I drove it for seven years and over 40k miles before selling it.

In that time I collected 30 trophies including best in class and best of show. I got several of the trophies at shows with other Cobras in attendance, (Knott's and Laughlin included) most of the time the other owners claimed to have invested much more in his car than I had in mine. Several times I personally knew the other owner and knew that he had spent more.

An earlier poster said that he was surprised that the yellow car was "worth" only $25K.

The worth of a car is not always expressed in $$$.

A car may be sold at a certain price (its worth?) but might have gotten more on a different day with a different buyer. The worth is pretty much what the traffic will bare and how bad the buyer wants a particular car.

The Kirkham (and SAI) cars are expensive due to the imported aluminum body and the high end parts selected to be included with the kit.

The FFR cars are not so expenxive due to the single donor car concept (which has caught on with other Cobra manufacturers) and the modern computer based manufacturing machines that they employ.

Several of us have decided that FFR makes what we want to be able to drive and appreciate the cost conscious approach they took to allow us to make it.

I also seem to recall that the FFR cars were in the top of class at the last several Run-N-Gun events, which goes to show that an inexpensive car deserves some respect.

If you choose an FFR with all new "brand name" parts, and hire an experienced engine builder to give you the muscle, and an experienced assembly shop to put it all together for you, you will spend close to the high end of the Cobra class to be able to drive your car.

You would then not stop at putting in leather, and a high quality paint job on the car, would you?

Is it then worth $50 of $60k? Of course it is. The value is in the internals. BTW, with the FFR , that includes a very well designed chassis.

The choices are, almost, endless and, mostly, all are good ones.