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I take great pride in the fact that mine is a "kit". I built it entirely myself, I even painted it myself! Not too many people can say that. I owe a lot of my success to the great craftsmen at ERA who put together a nice "kit" to work with. It didn't take a lot of fixing to make it all fit together nicely. But I still did all the preparation, painting, carpeting, wiring and assembly myself. I would match the quality of my car to any professionally built factory car any day. That doesn't mean mine is better, but I do take offense to the notion that a home-built car is necessarily inferior to a factory-built car. I probably put a lot more man-hours into making everything just right than a factory would. If you guys want to just lay down the money and drive away, that is great! But don't think less of us who put our sweat and blood into our cars to create something we can be proud of building ourselves. When people ask me if it is a kit. I smile and say yes, and I did ALL the work myself, including the paint. That usually brings very gratifying looks of astonishment.
Charlie
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