[twobjshelbys]

Here's my opinion. It is that only.

CR cars are UNDER ENGINEERED. And UNDER SUPPORTED.

Meaning they won't hold up when finished, if the pile of parts you actually got could be finished because many were short shipped. I suspect this is part of the reason many unfinished and incomplete kits are now showing up. The original owner has no interest or the estate is dealing with it. If you buy an incomplete kit beware that you might be more stuck that the original owner since so much time has passed and even those parts, while common then, aren't common now.

Also look at the history of the company. It's not very good and ended finally with a final stake through the heart of the vampire.

On the other hand, the CR is close to what you'd call "open source". They need few exotic parts, and most can be had with some patience.

As with any kit, the quality is left to the builder...

CRs were inexpensive. But because they could be "underbuilt" many are "cheap", and new owners are upgrading them with better pieces and parts.

In the end, some of them will have as much or more invested as would have been spent on a higher quality roller from ERA or Superformance or even Shelby. And you would have spent much more time driving the car than figuring out how to fit it together.

But if you're a tinkerer and love the challenge of a jigsaw puzzle with a couple of pieces gone, then more power to you.

This assessment is obvious to me, yet people still clamor to them.