Fiberglass Shelby continuation Cobras sell for about $52,000 US without an engine or transmission.
I believe that the aluminum body puts $35,000 on top of that.
The aluminum bodies are made in Poland of all places by a former Soviet block aircraft defense contractor. They built MIG fighter bodies.
Kirkham buys from them and imports them into the US.
The new bodies are in fact too good compared to the originals since they use CNC equipment and the English just banged the bodies out over wooden bucks by hand.
Initially SAI (Shelby) was building their own frames and fiberglass bodies. I think that they have given that up and buy them from Kirkham now?
So that price would be a pretty good one for an aluminum body CSX continuation car but not so good for the 'glass car.
Incidentally the 'glass cars are pretty nice too.
In the US the cars are coming with an MSO letter or origin which says they are 1965 Cobra model cars. That relieves them of any responsibility for complying with any EPA or DOT requirements put in place after that model year.
They also come with new Goodyear racing tires.
Either one of them is more then just a little bending of the rules but it ain't me who's gonna blow the whistle on anyone? Of course this is just how the US deals with it and my guess is that it would be easier to import the car into another country as a used car already titled here as a '65. It's value is going to be as a Shelby Cobra and not as a "kit car".
