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Old 09-26-2015, 08:23 PM
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Originally Posted by twobjshelbys View Post
Someone did, but I would have thought that someone professing to be "an expert" would have known this fact.



The Mexico link is really HST International whose offices were in San Diego and whose manufacturing facility was in Mexico.

The South African "parent" company is Hi-Tech Manufacturing, and they make lots of cars besides Cobras. And they did a few alloy cars along the way (notably, two of the alloy CSX9000 coupes [not the 50th anniversary editions] were built by hand at Hi-Tech. I almost bought one, and Lance said they could build another if asked.
I never professed to be an expert. I do know a fair amount about original Cobras and the learning never stops. Something you could adopt as well.
As I stated before, I don't know as much about the Cobra 427 and even less about the current replicas sold by Shelby or SPF (except the SPF Leaf Spring), hence my posting. If I have questions about replicas from South Africa though, I'll be sure to ask you.
Larry
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