Hi all,
About ten years ago I decided I was going to build a Cobra one day. At the time, I lived in a house that had a single open-sided carport. Not ideal for building a kit car. But after I moved house last year, I was sitting on my friend's balcony and a blue & white cobra drove down the street in front of me... and then the googling began. The time had come!
I knew what I wanted:
- blue with white stripes
- 427 style (rather than 289)
- supercharger (don't ask me why, i can't explain, i just need to own one!)
- new build (no hunting around in scrap yards or second hand parts - I don't have the skills or the time)
- as close to a "just bolt it together" solution as i could get. I have young kids (i.e. very limited spare time) and an alarming lack of skill
- full road registration
After a lot of reading and talking to several cobra club members I came to the conclusion that the Absolute Pace was the kit for me. Wazza spent several weeks answering about a million questions from me over email, all of which made it pretty clear to me that the quality was there and they'd thought of pretty much everything. Wazza must be sick of me already I reckon, I must say he's really gone out of his way to help me a lot.
So, I've placed my order and have been watching the very exciting updates rolling in from the guys at AP.
Meanwhile I've been "nesting"... buying various trinkets and tools. Also I built a chassis support frame and one for the body too (which I made to be lifted up into the garage ceiling for storage):
Found some suitable HSV cats from an exhaust shop nearby, ready to be modified:
Even installed some new lights in the garage!
As for the car itself, here's the latest photo I have from the AP guys. Very exciting!
Drivetrain will be LSA with TR6060 MG9 gearbox.
So... here I go! Hope you're all going to help me coz I sure as hell won't be able to do it without a good helping of advice
Cheers,
Mike