An expensive chassis, aircraft quality

[Engguy]

http://www.kirkhammotorsports.com/book_aoe/aoe_12.pdf


Heres the rest of the story.
http://www.kirkhammotorsports.com/book_aoe/

[robert1]

I work in an airline machine shop. We fab replacement and obsolete parts. I showed this to a coworker and now he can't leave the computer. This is truly a work of art to us. And made in Poland on top of that. So much for the 10,000 post thread about foreigners not being able to do quality work.

[Engguy]

Poland has some very quality machinists, I work with an old Polish guy, he's a top knotch lathe man.

[enigma57]

The entire car is truly a thing of beauty. Were I a billionaire, rather than original paintings by the old masters hanging in my private gallery...... I would have 2 identical cars (not necessarily Cobras) similarly built. One to drive on a closed course road racing circuit and the other to sit and contemplate in my garage with the body removed and set to one side to reveal the engineering and craftsmanship of the mechanicals. And of course, they would run Webers on IR intake. No other induction system would do.

Ah, to dream the impossible dream......

Happy Motoring,

Harry

[Cogburn]

UFFDA

[SWR]

AWESOME build. E.O.D.

UFFDA

...that means "oh darn" in Norwegian...

[af2]

Nope!!! Just flippin amazing!!

I have the privilege to see what is going on with the BUB cycle and am truly amazed at the workmanship.

[MadBill]

I believe the fab shop is a former MIG fighter plane factory. A friend of mine toured it some years ago. He said it's over a million square feet and that one part had absolutely dazzling state-of-the-art equipment and technicians, but another area looked like an early -20th century blacksmith shop.

Any bets which side this car came from?

He also mentioned that when the Kirhams digitized an immaculate all-original 427 Cobra for their replicas, one major decision was which side to duplicate in mirror image, since the car, like most hand-beaten bodies, was significantly non-symmetrical...