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Rem,

I'm kind of like you. I lurked around the forums, this one, FFR, Cobranet (what a group that is) trying to absorb what I could before I bought. I've wanted one of these cars for 35 years since I first sat in an original. I asked myself what I wanted it for...cruising, racing, waxing... In my past I had a '59 FI Corvette, '76 BB Corvette, '68 GTO and had done a little street racing (which in middle age I now know to be stupid). So I figured I wanted to do a little cruising and go to a driving school to really learn how to drive. I didn't want to build it, I wanted to drive it, hell I might be dead before I got it built. And with that knowledge I started looking. I looked at SPF's, BDR's, FFR's and everything in between. I could really buy whatever I wanted even an SAI. But I settled on an FFR that was built with a great deal of input from the Mott college build school. And references told me that the car had been built by someone who had done a really good job on it. So I felt I had made a perfectly logical decision on what car to buy............................. knowing full well that Momma would beat my ass if I punted a $60,000 SPF into a wall at the Kansas raceway.