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ERA Manufacturer's plate
MY project #782 was delivered this week and I've been taking stock of the boxes of parts, etc and came up with a question. I found the chassis number tag on the frame but haven't come across any form of a manufacturer's plate or any other papers that may be eventually related to registering and licensing the car. Forgot to ask Peter about it the other day. Are these usually sent separately later?
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Didn't get mine either. I bought a repro Shelby Plate & attached it to the Footbox with the ERA serial number on it.
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If you call Peter @ERA , he`ll get one made and sent to you , which is what he did for me . Maybe it has to do with getting a turn key car vs a kit ?? Mine was not a turn key . Patrick is correct .... the MSO is vital .... you can`t register the car without it .
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Thanks
I'll get with Peter on the MSO and data plate. No immediate hurry for them. Car showed up without any seats too. After taking stock of the boxes it dawned on me that these seats are either really small - or they inflate with air - or they aren't in any of these boxes. Makes it tough to sit in the car and go "varoom - varoom". :D A few unidentified parts found too that I've labled "mystery parts" thus far. Peter liked that term. Dan |
Dan, Don't worry... just call Peter and he'll ship you what you need as it comes available. In the boxes you should find the ERA data plate.
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Dan,
Don't know about the ID plate ... but congratulations on getting your car ! :D Be sure to post some pictures! |
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.:cool:
http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...idplate001.jpg |
And the Certificate of Origin looks like this, but has ERA stuff on it instead of Honda.
http://www.carswithoutborders.com/wo...ofront-001.JPG |
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 |
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Did you get two roll bars in your shipment, or just one? :LOL:
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It's seems pretty routine to be shorted some parts when taking delivery from ERA. When my data plate didn't arrive, I just called Peter and he mailed me another. Several parts (including the seats) had to be picked up later on when I realized I didn't get them. Just call Peter and he'll make it right.
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My MSO and my ID plate were mailed to me separately and arrrived just after the kit. Everything else arrived with the original shipment on Intercity Lines.
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my mso and data plate also arrived after everything else. Call Peter to make sure you get both.
m-a |
That Brings to Mind a Story...
Looking at my ID Plate, and how it says "E.R.A. --- ERA REPLICA AUTOMOBILES," I had a fella come up to me last summer at a show and ask "Is that an eee-rah?" And at first I didn't understand him, but it was soon cleared up and I told him that I usually hear it pronounced E. R. A., but "Yes, it is." But when looking at the name, I guess you can call it an eee-rah, since it has ERA right thar in the title, and maybe 25 years ago it was called that as well. Maybe it's called that now. I don't know. I don't know how they chose the name either, but I bet Jim H. does.
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Extra Rollbar Accidental ??? :D
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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. :) |
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 |
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