Factory Five Racing (FFR) owner David Smith realizes that the general public views his Cobra roadster as a kit car, but he has no shortage of customer referrals to debunk the negativity of that label.

It's done. We drove it, we beat on it, and it stayed together. We're talking about the Factory Five Roadster we built last month (and the engine the month before that), and the little car is a brutal ...

We’ve talked about kit cars before—mostly documenting the average project’s slow grind into anxiety-inducing garage filler. While that’s a common problem for kit cars, it doesn’t mean that your ...

There are several choices of which Cobra kits you want to purchase. The vendor we have found is Shell Valley, a company that has been producing Cobra Replicas for over 40 years. They offer kits that ...

More than twenty-five years ago, Factory Five was founded with a pretty simple purpose: Give people a chance to build their dream car using Factory Five's kit, a wrecked example of a high-performance ...

Automotive Investment Holdings (AIH) has partnered with Les Hayden to industrialise Hayden Cobra kit car production in South Africa. Hayden started Cobra replica sports car production in South Africa ...

Sure, building a car model is fun, but putting together a life-size, working version of a car you can actually drive is so much more satisfying. Kit cars are essentially prefabricated parts you ...