Selecting A Kit
To be honest, I really didn't look at all the kit manufacturers and make an unbiased decision on which one to buy. When I started researching Cobra kits on the web one of the first things I read was this web page: http://www.erareplicas.com/dansommers/dan1.htm I was pretty much sold on ERA as a company from then on. When I did look at all the other kit manufacturers it was in terms of "why not ERA". We were invited to a friends wedding in Connecticut so Wendi and I took the opportunity to visit ERA and confirm the decision. I liked the people we met at ERA and I liked the engineering described in their website: http://www.erareplicas.com There are more original kits out there but this one seems to have improved upon the original from an engineering standpoint. A more original cobra replica like the Kirkham aluminum bodied car http://www.kirkhammotorsports.com would have been nice, but the added cost and my perception at the time that their kits were less complete and would require more work kept me with ERA.