ERA Manufacturer's plate

[patrickt]

Here, this is what mine looks like. I never even took it out of the hermetically sealed bag and, to this day, keep it on the back porch in a mayonnaise jar.

[patrickt]

And the Certificate of Origin looks like this, but has ERA stuff on it instead of Honda.

[DanEC]

I haven't found anything like the data plate in any boxes so far. I'm noticing several missing items that ERA is tracking down so it may still arrive.

Thanks

Dan

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by DanEC

I haven't found anything like the data plate in any boxes so far. I'm noticing several missing items that ERA is tracking down so it may still arrive.

Start taking some pictures -- I love a good ERA build thread. And don't worry about missing parts, they'll make it good. I remember one thread where the guy kept breaking the same part a couple of times, and each time he just told Bob P. that it came in the mail that way. It all worked out happily ever after though.

[SunDude]

Did you get two roll bars in your shipment, or just one?

[DanEC]

Originally Posted by patrickt

Start taking some pictures -- I love a good ERA build thread. And don't worry about missing parts, they'll make it good. I remember one thread where the guy kept breaking the same part a couple of times, and each time he just told Bob P. that it came in the mail that way. It all worked out happily ever after though.

I plan to post some pictures as I progress. However, since I'm doing my own body/frame bonding and riveting I have to do some dissasembly first. That didn't scare me off - I restored an old Corvette and got real familar with bonding and riveting. Doubt it will be too interesting for awhile. I'm glad I did spring for the powdercoating - it looks really nice.

I ordered the undercar headers w/o pipes since I plan to have a custom exhaust shop a couple blocks from here rig up an undercar system. I thought I would get a complete undercar header from head flanges to collector - you know, like a header on most any car. Instead I got a box of eight, separate exhaust pipe/head flange pieces with about 9 or 10 inches of pipe each. No four pipe flange or collector. After scratching my head over that one for awhile I called ERA and they said their exhaust system supplier terms that a header - which it might be for a side pipe system. They are trying to work something out.

Now the work and fun begins.

[Jim Holden]

ERA, as in cars from another "era". The first initials of the name being also "E.R.A." a d/b/a name for International Automobile Enterprises, Inc.

Phil Gaudette, who founded the company somewhere back in the middle of the last century, had wanted to do a number of cars from the 60's including various Porsche's (904, RSK, etc.) Daytona coupe, and other Ford GT40 variants, etc. ERA had aquired much of the tooling, molds, chassis plans to do them, but sadly, (particularly from my vantage point) never got around to producing them.

Much of the stuff sat up in the rafters in the assembly shop or over in the basement of the "brown house" for decades and has been subsequently sold or disposed of. When he retired he was working on the Corvette Grand Sport and a version of the Cobra; the Ken Miles "turd".

Jim

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Jim Holden

ERA, as in cars from another "era". The first initials of the name being also "E.R.A." a d/b/a name for International Automobile Enterprises, Inc.

Over the last 25 years, have you heard the cars more commonly called "eras" or "e.r.a.s?"