Besides wanting to (1) build it myself, and (2) use an FE, my top criteria was appearance. I looked at several examples each of SPF, Hurricane, FFR, Kirkham, ERA, Unique, and CSX. Check them out for yourself, but to my eyes, the only ones that really "sat right" were CSX, Kirkham, and ERA. That said, they all are great cars and each company seems to have strong customer service.
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