Sorry Paul, didn't mean to steal your thunder! LOL!

You should take a stroll through the Factory Five website, I think you would really appreciate the group there and how they're doing their thing. They really are more than just another snake-clone manufacturer and have a very positive outlook on impacting the marketplace and of making a good show on the track as well. Plus their performance figures are very imprssive, but should be given the power-to-weight ratio of the cars. I especially love the coupe that I pictured! It's been hanging on my shop's "wish list wall" since it was prototyped a few years ago.

I helped build a few replica cars and had an opportunity to co-drive a '54 Jaguar D-Type replica in the '95 La Carrera Panamericana down in Mexico. Wow! Over 150 racers and nothing allowed newer than 1954 models, which our car was so correct that it qualified. Less than half finished over the grueling six-day race, and we fortunately placed fifth in our class. Needless to say, this impressed upon me the value of good engineering when it comes to these types of cars. Especially when you have to make repairs in the middle of nowhere! Unfortunately, due to the performance of the replica, no matter how "correct", they were banned as a whole the following year. Can't say as I blame them, most replicas are almost always an improvement over an already great design.