[fia#09]

John, nice to know you are still out there--I didn't get an email.
The Cobra was painted by ERA's expert painter Tony in Mass. The motor was built by a local machine shop that does a lot of Fords. ERA did the rear assembly. Cobra Automotive did much of the assembly to the tune of about $10,000. I did some of the early assembly but ran out of time (career change). It has about 3,300 miles on it, all by me. In NY all replicas have to have a VIN assigned and then it is listed as a "custom" based upon the year registered--so this is a "2000 custom", which means it is exempt from all the pollution, etc regs as it is based on a 1969 block. I would imagine that other states allow some other registration name as why would they accept NY's arbitrary name? I have an about 1965 distributor tag from a wreck if someone wanted to put that on and try to register it as a 1965. We could easily work out a way to get the car to DC.