Originally Posted by LantanaTX

I Just saw this thread for the first time and as I started reading it I was hoping you didn't buy the first one which was way over priced. I have built one in the past and there are four photos of it in my gallery three of which are below. It took me a while to be able to afford to build one and while I saved my money I did a ton of research. I learned all I could about the originals and as time went on orgininality became very important to me. I also wanted be able to make a profit on my investment. Some of the best replicas are made by Shelby, Kirkham, ERA and Superformance. In the end I went with with a Hawk 289 which I shipped over from England. The exchange rates were good at the time. It took me three years to build it but a lot of this time was finding origninal parts. I basically tried to build a meseum quality replica. I copied every detail of the original down to the smallest of details. Everyone who saw it assumed it was real. It even fooled the folks at the Shelby Nationals who tried to park me with the originals. At that show Carroll Shelby signed the car (see below) and he hates replicas! I was able to build the car for $20,000 and sold it for $52,000 ten years ago. I am hoping to build another Hawk 289 within the next couple of years. The third picture is when I let my dad drive it.