[tortuga]

I own a SPF and have become intimately familiar with its inner workings and am a bit ambivalent about the issue. No its definitely a reproduction, but its a reproduction that paid particular attention to 'getting it right': In my search for a cobra i looked at some real nice diversions from authentic, and frankly some real junk (scary junk with sketchy build quality and some weird details)...

I have met a few SPF owners who couldn't tell a master cylinder from a mater card, so i get that comment, but overall in my search for a turn-key car i decided that the SPF was a good fit, the Kirkhams are hands down the best, but the SPFs are right up there.

My hat is all the way off to those ingenious guys who fab up a nice replica in there garages, working out details and in most cases improving on the original. They have a machine that is part of them that those of us who buy turn -key cars will never ever have...

All in all at car meets, its not who has a better Cobra, its all about the camaraderie of all having some semblance of a Cobra, and I bet the crummiest looking car in the line will have a detail that will draw the crowd away from the polished kirkham with the SOHC 429...

Its not a competition.