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Craig White · 01-11-05, 08:40 PM

You've certainly got to have patience with lead times most manufacturers have.

You can always try the option of finding a 2nd hand example either partly completed or completed. Then modify to suit. This is the path I have taken. I bought a completed car that I'm going to rebuild to my tastes and standards. Most of the expensive and work is already there and luckily I found something close to what I would have done for the right price.

This is the first time I tried this and I can see that it certainly has it's pitfalls and I won't know till I'm finished whether it was the right way to go. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I've built 2 x Cobra replicas(DRB & Harrison) in partnership with my brother and both were from body/chassis stage as there wasn't anything available in the 2nd hand market that was suitable. Longest lead time for either Cobra chassis was only a couple of months.

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Craig White CraigW RCR Australia Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Gold Coast Posts: 563 Rep Power: 10	Re: Which one and why You've certainly got to have patience with lead times most manufacturers have. You can always try the option of finding a 2nd hand example either partly completed or completed. Then modify to suit. This is the path I have taken. I bought a completed car that I'm going to rebuild to my tastes and standards. Most of the expensive and work is already there and luckily I found something close to what I would have done for the right price. This is the first time I tried this and I can see that it certainly has it's pitfalls and I won't know till I'm finished whether it was the right way to go. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] I've built 2 x Cobra replicas(DRB & Harrison) in partnership with my brother and both were from body/chassis stage as there wasn't anything available in the 2nd hand market that was suitable. Longest lead time for either Cobra chassis was only a couple of months.