Hurricane Factory Visit

s_reynolds · #1 (**permalink**) 10-29-2010, 08:39 AM

I was in Iowa on a pleasure/business trip and visited HM in Lake City on 9/20. Monty Rohrbeck the Plant Mgr. took my wife and I on a tour of the HM facility, which is shared with their Vet box business ( the Vet box is a custom made fiberglas covered box the fits on the back of a pickup truck and cares all the Vet's supplies and has refrigeration plus hot and cold running water---not what I thought a Vet box was, for some reason I had pictured a Vet box as one of those fiberglas cages that you keep your pet in.) They had just shipped a kit a few days before, so I missed that. They did have a body mounted on a frame that will be a turn key minus car. The body was amazing..if you wanted a black car, you could almost get away with sanding the mold lines and touching up with black paint. I also saw a new mold for the brake duct inlets plus the molds for all the other body parts. There was a new body ready to come out of the mold as well. After taking the tour, it is very apparent that Hurricane Motorsports is in good hands given the depth of manufacturing experience/support that is available to support the product. I was also able to see first hand the updates/implovements that the Lake City guys have made to the chassis (not that the original chassis was bad, just some very nice product improvements). In fact after the tour, my wife said I needed to hurry up and finish my car and then build a new one. At anyrate, anybody looking to build a Cobra replica really needs to seriously consider this Hurricane, plus I can tell the guys at Hurricane will be great to work with. The guys were getting the 99 factory car ready for Run n Gun

LMH · #2 (**permalink**) 10-29-2010, 10:18 AM

Cool! Thanks for sharing your visit.
Larry

bwcobra15 · #3 (**permalink**) 10-29-2010, 10:31 AM

I am so ready to go.

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s_reynolds · #4 (**permalink**) 10-29-2010, 11:56 AM

bwcobra15, you won't be disappointed! I just ordered HM's new alum fuel tank today and Monty said it would ship today, Monday at the latest. Great customer service.

jshel1 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-29-2010, 04:20 PM

Bob,

I think you better go ahead and put your order in, for Annelise's Christmas present.

I look forward to a factory visit / homecoming someday.

bwcobra15 · #6 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jshel1

Bob,

I think you better go ahead and put your order in, for Anneliese's Christmas present.

I look forward to a factory visit / homecoming someday.

I'm sure she would appreciate that, John! Maybe closer to Christmas 2011 - but its getting closer!

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s_reynolds · #7 (**permalink**) 12-17-2010, 09:16 PM

I dropped the H from Hurricane in the thread title. I thought I had edited it to make the correction, but apparently I did something wrong, so how do you edit the thread title to make the correction? Thanks.

Sam

LMH · #8 (**permalink**) 12-17-2010, 09:24 PM

Ron can probably fix it if you can't.... but we all know what you were saying just the same!
Larry

s_reynolds · #9 (**permalink**) 12-18-2010, 07:35 AM

Larry, thanks. I was surfing yesterday and searched Hurricane, just to see if there was anything new and noticed this post didn't show up, so figured out that my edit didn't fix the problem. I'm relatively new to posting on the CC site, as you may have guessed, so I'm not familiar with who Ron is and how to reach him. Perhaps you can enlighten me. Thanks.

Sam

computerworks · #10 (**permalink**) 12-18-2010, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LMH

Ron can probably fix it if you can't....

...done.

ron
ClubCobra Moderator

LMH · #11 (**permalink**) 12-18-2010, 08:20 AM

And there he is...
Ron is the CC 'Super Moderator'! He keeps the peanut gallery (us) in line!
Larry