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Old 10-25-2010, 08:38 PM
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Well, Excuse Me! Sorry, the car I looked at wasn't well put together and I was told it was a Backdraft. If it wasn't, I don't know. I didn't look any further at that point. I'm positive there are beautiful and bad examples of all of them. An example of a bad CSX would be the CSX7076 fiasco.

The point is that if you take a Kirkham, Superformance and CSX (and probably others), and outfit them similarly, the prices will be similar as well. I know I can make a Kirkham more expensive than a CSX as I priced them. I made the decision to spend the extra dollars for a car that fit and worked in the climate where I live. Everyone has their reasons for making their choices. I also know that some, perhaps many, would never buy a Shelby even if they were of superior quality AND priced at the bottom of the rung. Whatever.
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Old 10-25-2010, 08:52 PM
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Apology accepted and I still like Shelby
And I do agree with you, there are bad examples in all of them; I have seen a few myself...

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Well, Excuse Me! Sorry, the car I looked at wasn't well put together and I was told it was a Backdraft. If it wasn't, I don't know. I didn't look any further at that point. I'm positive there are beautiful and bad examples of all of them. An example of a bad CSX would be the CSX7076 fiasco.

The point is that if you take a Kirkham, Superformance and CSX (and probably others), and outfit them similarly, the prices will be similar as well. I know I can make a Kirkham more expensive than a CSX as I priced them. I made the decision to spend the extra dollars for a car that fit and worked in the climate where I live. Everyone has their reasons for making their choices. I also know that some, perhaps many, would never buy a Shelby even if they were of superior quality AND priced at the bottom of the rung. Whatever.
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Old 10-25-2010, 09:18 PM
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OK, not piling on here....but the garage door stays closed. RodKnock monitors his car through a security camera in the comfort of his security bunker.
Piling on? I think I got a stinger, pulled a hammie, blew out my ACL and received a concussion all on this thread.

BTW, no CCTV for my garage to view my Cobra. You know how new parents put their newborns in their bedroom inside a bassinet next to their bed? I sleep right next to my Cobra in the bedroom.

Chas, I thought we were on the same side (Patrickt's Haters Club)?
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Old 10-25-2010, 10:44 PM
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... By the way, if I had gone with a Kirkham, I probably would have been one of the few that had it painted. I prefer the painted look, although I like the alloy on other people's cars, but then it just doesn't seem right to paint a Kirkham (and answering questions about why I painted it might have gotten old after a while).
Doug,

Good point ... I really like the bare 427 Kirkhams, they look good in their raw form.

On the other hand, I have only seen a few of the 289 Kirkhams in bare aluminum, and to me they just look better painted.

The one real advantage is not having to pick a color, but then there is the brushed or polished, stripes or no stripes.

Any way you slice it with these cars, there are a lot of decisions involved, which is a big part of the fun !
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Old 10-26-2010, 09:07 AM
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You know how new parents put their newborns in their bedroom inside a bassinet next to their bed? I sleep right next to my Cobra in the bedroom.
You only do that with your first. After that you put them on the other side of the house. And WTF is this "Patrickt Haters Club"?!?
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Old 10-26-2010, 10:14 AM
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You only do that with your first. After that you put them on the other side of the house. And WTF is this "Patrickt Haters Club"?!?
Take it easy. It was a play on, if you can remember this far back, The Little Rascals: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, etc. You know, the "He-Man Woman Haters Club."
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Old 10-26-2010, 10:22 AM
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Take it easy. It was a play on, if you can remember this far back, The Little Rascals: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, etc. You know, the "He-Man Woman Haters Club."
Ahhh, yes, the old Hal Roach stuff. No, I'm much too young to remember it, although I recall ERA Chas mentioning that he actually played the big red-headed kid that was always mean to the other kids.
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Chas, I thought we were on the same side (Patrickt's Haters Club)?

O Dude-we most definitely are! And we know that club's full title is the "PatrickT, and Dual Roll Bar-Hater's Club". We are equal opportunity haters.
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And WTF is this "Patrickt Haters Club"?!?
Patrick, it can't be that they hate you, it must be that they hate your avatar!

I was looking at it, thinking there is something strangely familiar about it, then it dawned on me....how can one not look at your avatar and see the spitting image of Groucho Marx? It's just eerie!!!!!

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Old 10-26-2010, 12:51 PM
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I took them off last year in the hopes Chas would be nicer and then he yelled at me to put them back on.

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Old 10-26-2010, 01:14 PM
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Well how about that $10,000 price increase on CSX's?

Only about 5 weeks until the price increase takes effect. Buy them now while they're cheap!
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Old 10-26-2010, 01:35 PM
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Yep, even went to the trouble of having removable matching hole plugs fabbed out for me in both matching, and contrasting, colors.



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Old 10-26-2010, 02:34 PM
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Patrick, I'm fairly sure no one cares about the multiple holes in your Cobra's body.
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And WTF is this "Patrickt Haters Club"?!?

If it makes you feel any better Patrick, I love to hate you.
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Old 10-26-2010, 04:47 PM
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If it makes you feel any better Patrick, I love to hate you.
Well, that's understandable, I suppose.
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Old 10-26-2010, 05:04 PM
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I took them off last year in the hopes Chas would be nicer and then he yelled at me to put them back on.

Oh the humanity!!! I'm sure that all family members are now forbidden to ride in car unless they wear a helmet.
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Old 10-26-2010, 05:21 PM
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Also, with the Kirkham, you get their aluminum rear end, what rear end do you get with a CSX?
My CSX has an aluminum rear-end from Kirkham.
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Old 10-26-2010, 05:28 PM
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My CSX has an aluminum rear-end from Kirkham.
Well that's interesting. Do you spec it that way? Do you have any other Kirkham parts?
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