[Gunner]

Looking at the pix, I'd agree with most of the latter posts. If this were, say, your father or dear uncle's car, you might have enough emotional attachment to take it on and keep it in the same condition. But without that connection, taking on the builder's attachment and emotional investment would be a bad idea... especially as the car, for all the evident love and labor that's gone into it, is something of an odd duck.

If you really want a Cobra, you can do better, probably for the same general amount, and without the limitations of either the car as it is or injunctions not to change it, which would be binding on your ethics if nowhere else.