[old willy]

Hey guys!
Thank you all,
Jim ,
I would really appreciate that measurement, I am told the top loaders and the T10's fit into the same location so I am sure I can figure it somewhat and I will heed your advice and allow for some adjustment. I am thinking I can make the mount a bit lower than I think I need then machine an aluminum spacer to bring it up, then if I need to go up or down some I can change the spacer....hmmmm.

Larry,
Thanks again and I will do as you have done and go with a quality VW type one.

And hey again RussBD,
That's kind of funny as I passed up on a bare bones Cobra Internationale kit in my local area just before I found the body I am going with.

Upon researching it I found a fellow on our east coast who had built one about 20 years ago and still had pictures on a website of it. We exchanged messages about it and he said what you said that the initial quality is a bit low.
He told me that the basic kit was nothing more than a bare square tube frame and a body shell, nothing more. The body on his kind of looked a bit funky in the rear end and his frame required a bit of reworking of the rear axle mounts or something but he did build and drive it, it is doable.

The one I looked at wasn't much more than what he bought, it had some front end parts bolted up but that was it, the body was a bit rough too, it looked like it had been passed around for awhile. I did some more research on this great site and others and read old posts about the issues the guy making them had, I believe there were actual fraud charges brought against the maker but that was a long time ago.

So in the end the fellow out east said I should really, really think hard before buying it and that was the feeling from posters here too. The biggest thing for me is it was a 427 shape and I want the 289 shape, Oh and the fellow who had the bits was starting to give me the sales pitch about how he had taken it all in trade for some bad debt and wanted to get his money back and how much the body and chassis cost new apparently....lets just say what he thought it was worth and what I thought it was worth were very different.

So I moved on and about 6 months later I found myself driving to Quebec to buy a mystery 289 body shell

At least it was the right shape but that's all it is, as you can see here.

Mine is certainly not perfect nor will it be, nothing is, so long as I enjoy what I am doing I am happy with it.

I hope we can catch up at a car show on some sunny day when we get back to such things.

Take care everybody!




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