[Dan Stryffeler]

"Is our hobby/passion disapearing?"

I don't know that it's disappearing, might be that it's just hitting a saturation point.

Every generation has some type of car that they've hot rodded; typically what was available cheaply at the time... most kids in their 20's want to work on the imports and that's ok - I don't think advertising would solve anything, because there's nothing there to solve. What our dad's hot rodded was different from what we did, which is different than our kids, and what their kids will do...

It was a pretty unique set of circumstances that lead to the demand for Cobra replicas - among them were low initial production numbers and amazing performance/looks. We are kind of a niche within a niche and the market might just go away with us.

The well run replica companies will be the ones that survive the current economy. No different from any other business...

Dan