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Big point there Roger, "....if the market's big enough....". So far, the market for truly original specification parts and materials for Cobras and 427 Cobras has not been "big enough" to support recreating the small parts and materials Bills Of Materials and trying to sell the parts retail. I understand as a single small run of new parts of most types might take ten years or longer to sell off. Businesses just don't do well with a decade or more long inventory turn overs. A few us sometimes buy into upcoming runs even if our cars don't require the part right now because if might be decades before somebody makes another run or maybe they won't make a second run. I have no intention of making additional runs of any part that I have ever made or had made with one exception and it only works with original front ball joints. |
Yes, there's the rub. We are lucky to have Gerry Hawkridge in the UK who is producing patterns for parts and producing original-spec suspension components and some other items. I don't know how much profit he makes from this but the business does seem to be growing. He's making patterns at the moment for the aluminium water manifold casting, and the header tank aluminium pipe with heater take-off. I have impressed upon him that the manifold needs to have the original boss included so we owners can saw it off, as original. Finishline do a replica piece for this but they have omitted the boss, thereby marking the part out as a replica. They're none of them perfect, but they're trying, can't deny that. Getting a leather grain right is a whole different ball game, though.
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Yes, the market for true originality is even smaller. Most people want the correct look but 'improved' design if it's possible. I have fitted NOS parts to my car over the years with other folk incredulous that I have actually made the car 'worse' in their eyes. 'Worse', maybe - but more original. Most folk don't understand that mindset. Fair enough to the remanufacturers, I suppose - they won't last long if they ignore the majority of their customers. The agenda is different.
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Gentlemen- thank you - Roger, Dan and ACHipo;this gives me the information I need to do the job justice.
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Roger - I'm also looking forward to making my car 'worse' over the coming months and years; just as it would have been in period. L |
Haha!
Interesting to note the slight raised section of the curtain for the 427's taller transmission tunnel, otherwise looks pretty much the same. |
This is a silly question to those in the know, but since I'm not, and should have a body / chassis to start working on next weekend, what is the purpose / function of the step at the bottom of the bulkhead?
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I'm speculating but I think it boxes in a frame cross member. The two front roll bar feet are secured to something solid under it on the SC cars - has to be the frame.
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On a Cobra roll bar hoop legs go through the shelf if a factory style bar is installed “through the body” which was typical. Mounting tabs and sockets for the roll bar hoop legs had to be added to the chassis. However, SAI did install a few “behind the seat” and those installations didn’t require holes in the shelf we are discussing. My red car, at various times in its existence had “behind the seat” and “through the body” roll bar installations. The installation present since at least the last 1970s early 1980s is through the body; which also required rear bulkhead and fuel tank modifications. I’ll leave 427 Cobra factory roll bar installation comments to somebody else. |
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