New Kirkham Owner

[Phx Mike]

Dan I have a Kirkham. Mine is polished with the brushed stripes. The polished area is actually easier to take care of than the brushed stripes but neither is harder to take care of than a painted car. There are two big advantages to leaving it brushed - first is that you don’t have to touch up paint and when it gets a dent it can be fixed without a repaint. The second big plus is your car will be unique and a real show stopper. I get 10x more comments on my polished car than I would if it was painted. Everyone knows it’s a metal car and not plastic. Plenty of race cars and aircraft go with bare aluminum.

Either way you go - painted or brushed - it’s a great car. Just don’t put a stroked 351 Windsor in it :-).

Mike

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Phx Mike

Everyone knows it’s a metal car and not plastic. Plenty of race cars and aircraft go with bare aluminum.

Mike's right. KMS and ERA turnkeys are the two finest built Cobras on the face of the earth. The main difference being metal versus glass. If I was not going to paint mine, then I would have bought a KMS. Don't hide your metal. People that know what they're looking at will instantly know what the car is (and who it is), and people that don't will just think that it's unusually cool looking and must be quite old. And I can't tell you how many times someone has tapped their knuckle on my fender well and said "yep, that's aluminum."