Mike,
I knew from your posts that you and I were on the same page about what your GT40 dream car is. That being said, the bigest drawback for me in recreating a '66 car from SPF is the single post closure on the rear deck. I know that Victor on this post had his done with the two post closure per the early cars but when I asked him to elaborate as to how this was done(by SPF or the assembler) I did not hear back from him. As for the rest of the car, I believe that we can recreate the "road coupe" pretty well by using some parts from Jay Cushman and others. Of course we will need to delete or toss the seats from SPF as they are not per the origional 'road coupe' or the 'sport coupe'. These were either leather without grommets or a nylon (romex) lightweight seat with nickle grommets. Oh and no roof vent! That's a big factor of authenticity if all of the SPF rollers come with this feature. Not to mention that the handbrake was under the steering column and the adjustable pedals could be adjusted from a hand lever under the dash. All of this can be corrected with money, but I have not decided how far I can afford to go. After all, I would hate to buy a roller from SPF and then delete about 25% of the equipment to make this look correct.
As a matter of fact, ERA has the closest body and dash of the early cars and the workmanship is terriffic, but INMHO, it seems that it takes forever to get the car and then you will have a lot of work to do to put this together.ERA has some shortcommings as well with the main one being no metal spider. Choices....choices!
Garry:worried: