The Cobra Parts Arrive

At right, you can see the family gathered around the Isuzu. From left to right, it's me, Nellie, Amos, and Cale. Nate's taking the picture. You'll see him in a minute.

Oh, yes, you can just see the tail of the Cobra body to Cale's right. 

Here you can see some of the boxes of parts that come with the FFR Cobra kit. We wedged them in beside the frame and body assembly to help keep it from moving around. 

The sexiest pose yet! (The car, silly, not me!) 

Cale, the resident Strong Teenager, looks at the stack of boxes with dismay.

Amos and Nate unload boxes.  

The pile of boxes.

All this stuff is going to have to be attached to the car!

The chassis and body, temporarily bolted together for shipping, finally emerge from the truck, courtesy of that terrific engine hoist again.

Note the bits of sheet aluminum attached to the frame. These are attached temporarily at the factory for shipping.

One of our first steps in building will be to remove them so we can attach the suspension, wiring, engine, and other parts. We'll get them anodized and reattach them permanently later.

Nate and Amos arrange the sawhorses under the car.

They'll hold it up till Nate builds some nifty little rollaround dollies for the chassis and an even niftier rollaround body buck for the body (to be seen in a future installment). 

Amos and I scramble into the cockpit and make the important first vroom noises of the project.