[Ant]

I am in NZ and the kits here are bread and butter and represent good value but are a bit off the mark for originality or racing, so I imported a UK RamSC, which apart from JBL probably has one of the better chassis for racing designed by Reynard engineering, BUT the body came twisted plus I have remade all the hinges, done hundreds of hours on the body and on and on it goes it has cost me a lot of time for something that I have already paid for.
My car is custom built compared to most with very $$$$ parts for racing everything including IRS is custom built, in hindsight I would have bought a US kit, Kirkham, ERA, Hurricane, JBL, SPF, so I could buy the things like door opening trimming etc as these things are all very time consuming!

To be honest a lot of cobra's look weird with high backed seats, low exhausts which make the car looking like its pregnant, stupid late model style wheels and on it goes, some are so far off the mark with bodyshape etc. This type of car is obviously in the low end of the market!

1. Do you want to build a car or buy one and if building how capable are you in building and fabricating? (building a car is a lot more expensive than buying at present in my opinion)
2. How much money are you prepared to pay for this work because you may never get it back or want to for that matter?
3. How fussy are you with workmanship and originality?

Me being fussy and liking a fair amount of originality I would do a Kirkham 289 with the addition of the enhanced chassis for racing, I am impressed with ERA and Hurricane cobras, I would listen to Dean Lampe as he has produced some nice examples of GT40 and Cobra cars.