Factory Five Cobras

[monster.chub]

Any comments on the factory five cobras ? Quite nice I thought !!

[David Large]

I thought they looked very good.

DL

[Martyn-ak427]

Very low driving position - but quite nice.

[legend]

Agree with Martin about driving position & previous comments on rear end, is the demo car road legal yet ?

[Chimeara]

The Daytona was registered last week. It is now in the hand sof the guys at Factory Five Uk and having the suspension set up this week.

Im sure there will be test drives and an editorial in some magazines soon.

Regarding the Cobra this is still awaiting an SVA but should also be on the road soon Ian Hunter would know more about this one.

[chr15w]

Factory Five are very big in USA, any search on Ebay(USA) will show a lot of cars. However if you study the cars to me they dont look right. The rear wheel arches look horrible and I would question the lines of the front end as well. The whole image for me isnt quite right

[dingocooke]

oh dear we have trod this route before; you may have just done this:

http://managementcraft.typepad.com/p...canoworms1.jpg

[KevinW]

I spent sometime chatting on the FFR stand. Its a nice car, and a good build route.
Attractive young lady on the stand should have helped the sales [- is that sexist?]

Apparently the seats were 'odd' for sva seat belt height purposes, and the 'coathangers' on the dash were an SVA solution suggested by the testing station. Not sure why they didnt fix these for the show.

Things I wasnt keen on, (purely because I am becoming an anorak and want an authentic traditional looking car for my next project):

Well-engineered, but non-traditional bonnet hinge.
Roll bar legs - would prefer these to be visibly mounted inside cockpit as per original.
Foot wells: non-original shape.

Good stuff:
Fit
Finnish
Chassis quality
Completeness

The back end looked fine to me. and the product looked good. The colour scheme and overall finish was very good, IMHO. Worth the money. Brochures very nice too.
Kevin