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[ItBites]

Richsd,

I've been at this game longer a lot longer than you and not everyone with a Kit Cobra calls it a replica. Mine is not a replica. It is a Kit Car. It is a Hot Rod, whatever... This whole "replica" thing has only come about in recent years (my car is from 1992). Get over yourself. If you don't like someone else's vision, don't share it, but don't trample it either, its just not polite...

Lest someone like me point out all the ways your car is not original and ruin your dream. Let's see: I do not recall Shelby contracting the Polish for bodies, I think they were made in England, but who is counting - you like it?. I see you claim it is a re-creation... Shall I spend several pages pointing out all the ways your re-creation is not true to original or should we both maybe just drop it as none of our business?

[richsd]

Originally Posted by ItBites

If you don't like someone else's vision, don't share it, but don't trample it either, its just not polite...

I am not trying to trample. I am just trying to understand where the interest lies in replicating a car but then not really trying to replicate it. This is just confusing to me and not meant to trample anyone.

[yamoda]

Originally Posted by richsd

I am not trying to trample. I am just trying to understand where the interest lies in replicating a car but then not really trying to replicate it. This is just confusing to me and not meant to trample anyone.

I am on my 3rd build now, the first was a very close attempt at replicating the original (I sold it within a year of finishing it, and made a more than healthy profit because it was, for want of a better word, agricultural), the second was for a client who wanted a car close to the original, lookswise, but with more modern suspension, brakes, EFI etc. He loved it and I thought it was a very nice car.
The reason I chose the Cobra for my current build is that there is very little else available.

I want a car that;
Will weigh no more than 850 - 900kg,
Will take a small block Ford with CHI heads and associated trans and diff.
All round independent suspension with decent brakes (AP)
The capability of adding ABS and traction control.
Have acceptable looks and be sans roof.

I have driven a couple of original 427's and they were exciting in all senses of the word but I wouldnt have one today, the 2nd car I built was quicker, safer, handled and stopped better, rode better and was finished to a far higher standard than the originals.
The Cobra replica market today, as I see it, is split into 2 general groups.
The guys like yourself who cant or wont afford an original but want something as close as possible to it and the second group who like the Cobra but believe, with the benefit of 40 years of technology, it can be improved upon.
I am in the second group.
The biggest difference between the 2 groups, I believe, is that you wont hear guys like me trying to put guys from the first group down (If you want an original, build it or buy it and enjoy) But why do you always have to comment on builds like ByronRACE's or mine?
We arnt interested in the anal crap you guys spout, we love cars and dont really worry about statements like
"Yes this is the shame of it all. The public has been so mistakenly exposed to replicas nobody has a clue what an original looks like anymore."
The originals were masterpieces OF THEIR TIME, the1960's, its now 2007 and we have moved on in many ways.
Build YOUR car the way YOU want but dont dare to question anybody else on their decisions when building their car.