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In 2000 I was happy and content in my lack of knowlage of Cobras, I had my Corvette and played with the local SCCA twice a month. Life was grand! Then one day I stopped by a yard sale (my wife dragged me) and while bored stiff and wanting to get out of there I noticed a book about Shelby Cobras. I ended up buying it and upon arriving home buried myself in it reading it cover to cover. That led me to checking out Cobras on the web and eventually to me wanting my own. Knowing nothing about kits I started checking things out and right away discovered the huge differences. Since I knew this would be a large investment (for me anyway) and that this car would spend alot of time on the track I wanted to go with a small block, (cheaper and easy to get parts for) an independent rear and I wanted Quality. In 2001 I bought a used 17000 mi 302 and a hammered T5 trans. (that cost more to rebuild than had I bought new) Then life got in the way and my project was sidelined. Flash forward to 2005; I'm complaining to my wife about never going ahead with the Cobra to which she say's "why dont you order it one year out? We'll have the money for it by then anyway." Now is that a great wife or what? Anyway the obvious choice was ERA and car 719 should be nearing completion. The anticipation is becoming quite difficult to deal with. Sorry about the length of the post but the question is this. How much longer on car 719 Bob? Sometimes I wish that I had never bought that book.