Thanks Dale, you were the friend I was mentioning above.
Those are the pictures they snapped just before putting it on the trailor. The shipper is saying Friday or Saturday, the trucker is saying Thursday. He lives in Iowa so I suspect he is trying to get a little break at home without the company planning to make him work. We will see when it actually shows, you know how shippers can be, they work those guys just as hard as they can.
Nick, man thats a lot of questions, but I'll try to answer them and be concise
the tail, yes it definitely looks a little high compared to most replicas, but if you look at original cabriolets it is very close, there is some debate as to why the most replicas are "lowered", but honestly I think it is to make them look like the originals after the suspension would sag a little over the years and many owners of originals would lower the suspension to make it look like the cars that were being used for racing. The racers wanted it a lot lower for handling. In fact original racers would sit empty with the left side of the car slightly higher so that when the drivers weight was in the car it would be right where they wanted it for racing.
The SAW is adjustable for ride height? But, yes it will probably settle a little so there is no intention of adjusting it for a least a year, and then I would probably only take about 3/4 of an inch out. I think the total adjustment is about 2 inches?
On the originals posted by Jim Ward the rear rim is almost level with the rear arch. True very true, this is common on the originals, because they would sag more then a modern car would and because of what I said above. I will try to find a Cabriolet picture when it left the factory, it is amazing how high the factory had them?
