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Old May 29, 2002 | 10:16 AM
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Someone posted a website late last week for a kit car of a 63 grand sport. I lost the link and a friend and I are very interested in something like this. Does anyone remember the link or the topic. I've searched the recent topics several times and I can't seem to locate it.
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Old May 29, 2002 | 08:51 PM
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TRy this out. MAy not be the one you were looking for though.
http://www.ddcorvette.com/html/catalog.html
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Old May 30, 2002 | 09:00 AM
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Thats the one thanks it was driving me batty. I'll be sure to bookmark it this time.
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Old May 30, 2002 | 11:45 AM
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I thought these guys bought D&D's business.
http://www.erareplicas.com/gs/gs.htm

And it looks like they have no plans anymore. :(
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Old May 30, 2002 | 02:33 PM
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I thought these guys bought D&D's business.
http://www.erareplicas.com/gs/gs.htm

And it looks like they have no plans anymore. :(
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That's what I thought too. ERA had been doing a great job improving the kit overall, they must have spent too much $$$ fixing everything. I called D&D a couple years ago just after they sold the kit to ERA and they were quite rude. Either way this is NOT a cheap kit and the guys from ERA said that a complete built car would run 50-55K :eek:
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Old May 30, 2002 | 02:45 PM
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OW!! 50 grand yikes. Thats too bad a 63 with a c4 chassis sounded like the best of both worlds. It would be cheaper to buy a worn out 63 and just upgrade the suspension. Even at todays inflated prices.
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Old May 30, 2002 | 03:08 PM
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As I understand it, ERA did buy the tooling from D&D with a no compete clause for D&D for a specified time. That time seems to be up and D&D is back in business.
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Old May 30, 2002 | 03:32 PM
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Tube frame??? How close are our C3's to the C2's frame? :reddevil
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63 thru 82 are almost identical I think
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Old May 30, 2002 | 03:41 PM
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Very close. Except for body mount points, the frame, suspension, and drive train didn't really change from the '67 to '68 body style change. I think that they may have slightly changed the geometry of the rear for more understeer on the '68 Shark.
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