Kit car?!
 

Cool or not cool?

I'm seriously looking at the 65 Coupe, AKA the Shelby Daytona. Any thoughts?

personally, I like your 68 better. That's just me.

yes cool. I would go with the Factory Five kit. I have been thinking about one after the 68 is done. The wife wants the Cobra though.

Mike

The first of the FFR Daytona Coupes had door fitment issues, but AFAIK they're all worked out now. A guy near me had one of the first batch of cars out of FFR and he had a LOT of issues with the door/hood fitment.

I'm eyeing their new Mulsanne kit myself... :unibrow:

Thanks.

I think i will wait for a few years and save up some dough to buy the kit car, and have both! :D

If I do another project, I would seriously consider a kit. Excellent power-to-weight ratio, etc., etc. My short list has the Dragon, a Street Beast Willy's or a 58 Vette.

just make sure you do lots of research before ya plunk down the serious amount of cash for a kit car. my cobra is a contemporary classics kit, the body is great, proportions are all great, the chassis on the other hand was a joke. thats why its getting new tube chassis using viper suspension components.

the ffr cars seem to be decent quality, and are affordable. use common donors.... if i was to build another, thats the way i would go.

the next one will have a roof like the daytona, the cobra is more for "oooooohhs & ahhhhhhhhhhhs"

I got a FFR cobra replica back in 1999. I was only 20 at the time and there was no way I could get the car insured being you have to be 26 before any insurance company will insure a cobra type car. I had the car in go cart form in the matter of a weeks time but the body work took me a while to get right. The new kits are said to be worlds better in fit. My cobra was not built form a donor car and was power by a 600HP supercharged 331 stroker motor. I never got to drive the car on the street being I had no insurance so I cant tell you what it was like. The guy that has it now said its the scariest car he has ever been in and he has a 502 69 camaro and a few other high HP cars.

I will dig up some old pictures. My wife still wants to kill me when I bring this car up because I traded it for a 69 camaro + a good chunck of cash. LOL

Mike