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[Extracts
from: Kirkham
Motorsports Brochure]
A
Cobra built by Aerospace Engineers!
Kirkham
Motorsports began after a relative bought a Polish fighter jet.
At the time the Kirkham’s were restoring their own Cobra
(CSX3104). The similarities
between the plane and the car were striking, and this resulting in
contact being established with the manufacturer. Asked if they could
manufacture an aluminium bodied car, they replied within 12 hours “No
problem!”.
The
enormous Polish factory has produced aircraft for more than 60 years,
but since the end of the Cold War the factory was silent - with
thousands of idle machines. This was some years ago; today David Kirkham
speaks fluent Polish and builds the most accurate replicas available
anywhere in the world!
Kirkham
believes that using aluminium for the bodies was an obvious choice –
after all “you’re buying a sports car, not a dune buggy”. The aluminium body panels are beaten by hand over tools
created from a master body buck, then both the tool and the panel are
placed into an enormous press where the panels are given their final
shape.
All the housings and components are cast or forged using only the
highest quality raw materials (fit for a jet fighter).
Kirkham
Motorsports is so confident of the accuracy of the cars that even
original Cobra owners cannot tell the difference. Kirkham followed one
simple rule when setting out to recreate this legendary Cobra – If it doesn’t belong on an original, it doesn’t belong on
our car! So a big block
Chevy is NOT an option!
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