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That's amazing. When my friend was working in a machine shop, he was responsible for the P&W Keller machine. He would make the dies for seat backs, floor plans, roofs, doors, hoods etc....then the dies would go over to the stamping plant to be installed in the huge presses. He would set the machine up and control the decision points all by hand. Once it was set up, the big Keller would start to cut the die and could run a few days. He would make periodic checks on its progress. When CNC came along, he would still set it up hand but CNC would control all of the decision points. An amazingly huge machine. It was almost identical to this one:
The (kit)AC Cobra is aluminum and it is polished and than clear coated. It reminds my of the Hot Wheels Chrome Mustang Boss Hoss Silver Special.