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Originally Posted by ERA Chas
Sorry if I chilled your quiche, Knockers.  Surely it will find a niche-among the 'look-at-me' crowd. Not the 'make-it-run-like-the-original' crowd. The total character of the original is lost with e-control harnesses and clap trap, AC and what ever else SPF will deem the well-heeled clueless want. How soon 'til we see these on BJ??
We can agree to disagree about the new canvas vs 'POS' starting point. Starting with a new aluminum KMP-I agree. Starting with this weak effort from SPF-I disagree. They're talking $100K entry and I'd rather make a complete, running old mid-year new for that money with the build direction I described.
This is sort o' like 'let's build an F14 replica with Cessna 110 innards'.
I'm glad it's a tangent to the Cobra market-we've already got our own armrest and cup-holder crowd.
Point taken about early car trunks but you DO get my point. As long as golf bags fit back there SPF will be able to peddle these.
I'm certain the SPF's of the world are scouring the vintage race landscape looking for material to 'modernize' and domesticate a new product for eager, non-tech spenders. That's where the money is. |
Real men don't eat quiche. Make-it-run-like-the-original? I assume you can, if you want, but a lot of Cobras aren't like that either. Like mine for instance.
I actually have a friend who has a reasonably priced 65 Vette Coupe that I could buy, although a '63 would be correct, but I wouldn't cut it up to replicate the GS. And by the time someone like me finishes off a replica using an original body, we would be at $100,000 +/- anyway. Vettes are very expensive to paint, probably $15,000 +/- and 540's are $15,000 +/-. Add everything else (awesome suspension, interior and brakes) and I would bet it's a wash for me. I also tend to go "all out" if possible.
Anyways, a GT40 or a Daytona Coupe would probably be near or at the top of my list, not a GS.