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[EMD]

Bet this shifts   

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[Sir Tigger KC]

Fugly front though. 

[Kevin Wood]

Bet the brakes are interesting looking at the front and rear disks.

[minifreek]

Wrong engine, should be a bike engine in there and not a V8, and those seats are dangerous IMHO...

[Kevin Wood]

This looks very much like an "oh, F**k! I forgot I had to get it through an IVA test" sale to me.

[aaronjb]

Bet the brakes are interesting looking at the front and rear disks.

The ones on the car or the ones laying on the ground in the first picture that he hasn't got around to fitting?

Brake bias would be a bit interesting as it sits.. although with the boat anchor up front it probably needs to be biased forward a bit!

and those seats are dangerous IMHO...

They don't look any better or worse than the Cobra replica manufacturers put out - plain FG shells..

[Kevin Wood]

Bet the brakes are interesting looking at the front and rear disks.

The ones on the car or the ones laying on the ground in the first picture that he hasn't got around to fitting?

Brake bias would be a bit interesting as it sits.. although with the boat anchor up front it probably needs to be biased forward a bit!

and those seats are dangerous IMHO...

They don't look any better or worse than the Cobra replica manufacturers put out - plain FG shells..

Ahh. TL;DR.

So, he's got some decent rear brakes, but not yet fitted.

Not sure the lightweight radical-esque look really goes with american steel under the bonnet either.  Should have built a Cobra, IMHO.

Sadly, he's got to the point in the project where he's spent maximum money but realised minimum value. Put an SVA on it and register it and it would make a bit more, but I think his asking price is still rather optimistic. If it is due to ill health them I do sympathise, but I think many buyers of kits in this state will worry that there's some snag that means getting it on the road will be far from easy.

[aaronjb]

Yeah, very much the wrong engine in the wrong application .. still at least it's a Chevy 350 rather than an RV8 made to look like one. As you say, should have built a Cobra (or an Ultima).

I wouldn't buy it for exactly the reason you state - you'd have to pull it half apart to check everything anyway and at best it'll end up Q-plated (not that there's anything wrong with Q plates, I suppose, but I was certainly planning on avoiding one on the Cobra)..

[Kevin Wood]

Yeah, very much the wrong engine in the wrong application .. still at least it's a Chevy 350 rather than an RV8 made to look like one. As you say, should have built a Cobra (or an Ultima).

Oops! I appear to have salivated onto my keyboard.

I wouldn't buy it for exactly the reason you state - you'd have to pull it half apart to check everything anyway and at best it'll end up Q-plated (not that there's anything wrong with Q plates, I suppose, but I was certainly planning on avoiding one on the Cobra)..

Q plates have their advantages, IMHO.

It's the sort of thing you'd take a punt on if it was a couple of grand, but (even if it was my cup of tea) it's too much of a risk to sink big money into (and also a bit of an unknown kit).

[aaronjb]

I did hear somewhere that the Ultima (as standard) has rather poor steering & front suspension geometry.. which did put me off the idea a little. Well, that and that I'd never get into one with a roof

This will sound very silly but my main reason for wanting to avoid a Q plate was to be able to put a private plate on it when done  Except it seems anything with "AJB" in is stupid money (£2000 for 'R21 AJB' and R is still too new for my L reg donor) and I haven't found a nice 1966 plate with '428' in it yet..

[Kevin Wood]

I used to camp at Le Mans at the same site as the Ultima owner's club, so much kicking of tyres at the bar and drooling over cars ensued. I know that suspension geometry didn't put any of them off stretching their legs a little!

One year they had to abandon their normal Hull-Zebrugge-le Mans route, because the previous year one of their number went through a speed trap a couple of miles from the Belgian border. The driver elected not to stop, and, instead, lit up his supercharged 383 and ran for it. 

Unfortunately, they had a helicopter on him and clocked him at 212 MPH. He got a letter in the post informing him that he was now somewhat unwelcome in Belgium.

[aaronjb]

  Similar happened to a couple of friends of mine in France (oddly enough, also during Le Mans week) - €750 each and a ban and their wives got to drive home...

[minifreek]

The FG shells are dangerous when combined with the use of a 4 or 5 point harness, they need to be reinforced for them to be safe... A normal seatbelt would be fine with them TBH but with harnesses they would just collapse...

[2boxerdogs]

Looks like the Batmobile seen much better looking kit cars.