Questions on buiding a 427 Street Cobra replica

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by JBCOBRA

Hi DanEC!
Welcome!
If you are interested in seeing an SPF street car. Take a peek. There are a bunch of great cars available. Just depends on how long you can wait and how much work you want to do yourself.

I haven't really thought about SPF. I guess I thought they were mostly assembled rollers or turn-key cars rather than kits. I'll look at their website.

Thanks

Dan

[DanEC]

Thanks everyone for your input. I would still like to hear from more Unique owners - especially anyone with a street car version.

Dan

[8litercobra]

I have a Unique FIA car, not street. It was assembled back in '94 and is really a nice riding and handling car, even after being "aged". The unique body is well made and has no stress cracks or other signs of weakness, still looks great! Can't talk much about under car exhaust or no hood scoop. The FIA car does have a low exhaust clearance in common with the undercar exhaust system. I scraped a few times until I got religion and Jet Hot coating on my pipes. I am pretty careful about what I don't run over, and really don't have any problems.....but I am always aware.

[kayakjack]

Another view of my Superformance street version without the hardtop...



Jack

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by kayakjack

Another view of my Superformance street version without the hardtop...



Jack

Looks great Jack! Very clean. I love the single hoop vs. the dual roll bars.

[kayakjack]

Originally Posted by Got the Bug

Looks great Jack! Very clean. I love the single hoop vs. the dual roll bars.

Thanks Doug!!

These photographs were taken in a studio by students from the Savannah College of Art and Design. They did amazing work.

Jack

[YerDugliness]

Originally Posted by DanEC

Thanks everyone for your input. I would still like to hear from more Unique owners - especially anyone with a street car version.
Dan

Hi, Dan. If you want to see a primo Unique 289 street car build, check out this member on the Unique forum (here's a link to his thread history):

http://www.uniquecobra.com/forums/se...id=32722&pp=25

Juan's car is enough to make you drool, though.....be sure you have plenty of shop towels handy !

Dugly

[DanEC]

Still trolling for 427 Unique owners and comments about their cars. Leaning towards ERA now but can't get too much information and opinion on the subject.

Thanks

Dan

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by DanEC

Still trolling for 427 Unique owners and comments about their cars. Leaning towards ERA now...

OK, surely you know that a Unique versus ERA scenario is kind of like ground chuck versus Chateaubriand....

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by DanEC

Still trolling for 427 Unique owners and comments about their cars. Leaning towards ERA now but can't get too much information and opinion on the subject.

Thanks

Dan

I'm not affiliated with the seller, but there's a beautiful black ERA on CC being sold by a SF Bay Area CC member. Asking price is $63K.

I know very little about Unique, but you can't go wrong with either. You will find many proponents of both here on CC. If you have the extra $$, then the ERA appears to be generally recognized as the better and more accurate replica. Both companies have been around for a long time.

[Got the Bug]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I'm not affiliated with the seller, but there's a beautiful black ERA on CC being sold by a SF Bay Area CC member. Asking price is $63K.

I know very little about Unique, but you can't go wrong with either. You will find many proponents of bothe here on CC. If you have the extra $$, then the ERA appears to be generally recognized as the better and more accurate replica. Both companies have been around for a long time.

Tom's ERA looks like an awesome car.

http://www.clubcobra.com/classifieds...uct=2124&cat=2

[FrankJohnson69]

Dan, you have a PM.

Frank