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frankym,

I understand exactly what you're saying.. I think the term "tire kickers" is appropriate... Anyone who has shopped a Cobra for any length of time pretty much knows where he wants to be pricewise... At $40K the Superformance seems like a pretty good buy... if that's the brand you want...If you're shopping a FFR and you take a flyer at the Superformance for 30K, Hey, stranger things have happened. Twelve months ago that car would probably have commanded 50K and been a decent buy..
WTCOBRA is correct about the down market on these cars... I kid the Cobra owners in the neighborhood that if one more Cobra shows up on the street, I'll switch to a Corvette because there are fewer of them around... What once was rare has become commonplace...
I just completed the sale of my Boston Whaler and it was a pure delight to deal with the kid that bought it. He paid my asking price because he knew it was priced to sell... Almost every other call I received on the ad started with," will you take less?", mind you they haven't even seen the boat yet and they're whittling me down... I usually tell them that "maybe when you see the boat you'll offer me more than my asking price because it so nice".
Also, a car buyer is used to having all the finance work done by an agency... The tire kickers are usually not cash buyers and have no clue as to how to conclude a financed deal... Most want a ride and to make friends...

I hope WT is wrong about the Cobra market staying low but based on what I'm seeing now, he's probably correct...

Let's see what happens to the highbuck aluminum Cobras in the resale market down the road... I might be delighted I only spent what I did on my replica..

Just a side note..... Any time I sold a house or a car privately, it was always the last person I expected to make the buy that was the one who bought it... so much for judging a book by its cover.