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Admin
USA
224 Posts |
 Posted - May 07 2002 : 3:59:00 PM
When it comes to kit cars, it seems that there are a lot of replicas on the market. I wish there were more original designs available, do you?
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sonny
USA
38 Posts |
Posted - May 10 2002 : 11:39:32 AM
Admin,
This has since the 60's been a deep desire of both my dad, now myself, and my son's. However as it has evolved from a custom suspended chassis that has been thoroughly thrashed over the decades we have chose to stick with the COBRA as a body profile from the sheer fact of three important areas:
1. Federal Regulations/EPA/StateRegs have always been a sore point when it comes to the titling and registering of such a creature, and as the time has progressed those laws pretaining to new car fabricators, and they change on a daily basis,
2. Liability, in an age when all you meet are sue happy, it's tough to eliminate "greedy" lawyers that are in an overabundance and taking advantage of those that want to obtain wealth thru the courts, and I could name countless suits against both quality kits and thos of lesser quality, THIS IS AN IMPOSSIBLE AREA to overcome for any small fabricator,
3. The acceptance of a design is a very solid foundation for a fabricator to launch off from, then if he gets into the big guys arena in with that dream intact, will he risk it over a new design.All of that said, I guess with FFR going to launch a "new supercar" this month we're sure to find out, unless the Smiths are jerking our chain and just copying another "proven design" and merely calling it a new supercar as a tease. Considering FFR being the most successful kit manufacturer ever. Sonny 
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Whats Better? Replica Or Original?
