Kirkham only made the SS bodies and ss components in Poland .. some SS frames for special orders. But the cars were built and finished at Kirkham Motorsports. They started with a high tech specialty machine shop .. did repairs on a broad range of unique items. They came across the Polish Mig Factory when a collector brought in a Mig Fighter for some work (not your every day body shop!!) .. and they were impressed by the build quality . . saw the name of the factory and contacted them. They had been considering marketing a line of glass bodied replicas .. but the potential of doing an aluminum one was too great to pass up. Timing was perfect .. the wall came down, communism was out in the Eastern Bloc countries .. and the factory had nothing to build .. no more fighters. So the Kirkhams walked into an unbelievable situation. In their own right they are master mechanics .. and now they had a high tech cad cam machine shop at their disposal.
Back about 15 years ago a guy came into their shop and said "I want you to build me an aluminum bodied Brock Coupe". They said .. "we don't build a Brock Coupe .. only 289 and 427 cobra replicas". He replied " you aren't listening to me .. I said I want you to build one for me .. just give me your terms". They evaluated for a week "we need to engineer all of the components, need to build fabricating jigs, need to do component testing, and need to build an initial prototype to test .. then we need to make modifications as indicated .. and build the actual car. It represents a huge number of engineering hours as well as the build. We cannot do it for less than $1.0 million dollars". The buyer cut them a check for 50% and they built an incredible Brock Coupe .. aluminum 427 motor. Guys are artists.
ERA stopped producing the GT 40 .. too expensive with limited demand .. and focused on their 289 and 427 cobra replicas. Build something like one a week.
