<VV> Cobra kit cars - Non Corvair

[Charles Cromwell]

Hello all
Check out Factory Five on your web .They are located
here in MA.
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--- Ken Campbell <deltainc at grm.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Borrrris at aol.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 2:33 PM
> Subject: <VV> Cobra kit cars - Non Corvair
> 
> 
> .
> > My bro-in-law visiting from Spring Hill, FL tells
> me he is really
> > considering building a Cobra kit car and showed me
> brochures from several
> mfgrs.  The
> > more he researches , the more questions he has,
> but knows no-one who has
> "been
> > there-done that" to ask.
> ********
> Yep:: be scared, very scared .....  99% of kit car
> suppliers are underfunded
> and probably under-ethical .....  glowing
> advertisements are your first clue
> ....  if it seems to be too good, it probably is ...
> demand a list of at
> least 20 people who have the kit already and
> actually got it together ....
> personally go and talk to them, look carefully at
> the cars ...  they might
> be relatives of the sales guys ... go by what the
> Suppliers * HAVE DONE *
> not what they say they * WILL DO * .
> 
> 99% of the people in the kit car business are either
> in Jail, under current
> investigation, bankrupt and abscounded with the
> funds, or are in witness
> protection programs from former customers   .....
> 
> *********
> Do I have your attention?
> *********
> That said, there are some decent folks out there ...
>  just make sure they
> actually have an office, not just a phone booth ...
> *********
> One neat outfit ( I think ) was Beck in Pomona Ca.,
> I visited their shop
> about 20 years ago, and always wished since I had
> got their kit for a
> Porsche Speedster... it was a pretty little thing,
> went like a 100 horse
> go-cart ...   and pretty simple ... I wonder if they
> are still in business
> ???
> 
> About 1990 I bot a pretty nice project kit from
> Classic Kit Cars (? ) in
> Fargo ; heh heh, a kit for a " Sebring MX " , which
> will eventually turn
> into an AHealy 3000 on steroids .... eventually ....
> I got busy in our job
> shop, ran out of room ... etc. etc., which is very
> common with kit car
> projects ... they take about 8 hours a day,;,
> anyway, I think it is a good
> kit, and the company is * sort of * still in
> business ..... ( google up
> Sebring MX ...) maybe only 3 or 4 changes in
> ownership and major law suits
> ....  BTW, this outfit has a Cobra Kit still, I
> believe.
> 
> ********
> Be careful...  the body shell of a kit car does not
> make it a repro of the
> real thing ...  does your friend want an Independent
> Suspension , or would
> he settle for a solid axle + frame car ??  Those
> Mustang trailing link solid
> rear ends are really pretty dang good for American
> roads ...
> 
> About 1987 I visited an outfit in Phoenix that had a
> great kit for the
> Cobra, used Jaguar rear end ... and was working on a
> GT40 kit for a Fiero
> Chassis ... I am not sure they or their descendents
> are still around ...
> but they were gorgeous ... as I remember it was $20K
> for a turnkey Jag based
> car ... heh heh, I got a buddy who built a fantastic
> 427 Cobra kit in his
> basement, had to knock out a wall and build a ramp
> to get it out (g) ...  it
> was a .... Kuntz ???   sp?   kit from Cal., I think
> someone shot the kit guy
> later or something .. but the kit was terrific ...
> 1977 or so ....
> ********
> Be afraid, very afraid ... I think it's like
> gambling ... don't take your
> lunch money to Las Vegas ... (g) ..
> 
> regards, ken campbell,   " can't eat kit car parts"
> in Ioway
> 
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