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Old 08-31-2015, 04:53 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Hi-tech body/frame, 427engined FF5/302engined FF5 Bennett 289 & 427 rolling chassis
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razerwire,
Wow, you raced with Paul, awesome. He was a good guy, and an amazing mechanic/engineer. He switched a rear axle on an "Advanced Chassis" Cobra for me years and years ago.
Yup, that's my car in the photos.

Paul sold his business assets eight or so years ago, the buyer never did much with it.
I picked it up a couple of months ago...427 rolling chassis, 289 rolling chassis, the molds for both, a third 5" wider in the hip, mold, chassis jig, 6" diameter roll of plans, Paul's note book, etc., all of it is the 2" diameter chassis.

The 289 is an odd duck.....289 body on one of Paul's 2" dia "space frames", it's fiber glassed to the frame. No history on where the 289 body originated.
The 427 body looks like many/most of the Arntz/Butler/Bennett cars I've seen, it looks exactly like the bodymold Tim of Fiberjet Ind. built. (Tim did not remember where/what car he made the mold off of. One obvious mold variation is the upside down (3/8" tall X 1/2" wide) "v" stiffener cast into the cowl, that get's hidden when the windshield is installed.
I'm not much of a computer guy either, it always amazes me when I can post something like a photo. And, I'm not any more that what I would consider a back yard mechanic. I'll look at Paul's stuff, see if he calls out a master cylinder.

Right now I'm building a 14' X 20' addition to the shop to fit all the molds and the jig, so have not been able to work on the car(s).
The 427 rolling chassis, well, the body is carbon fiber, so I'm going to switch it with a FF5 car I've been working on...it's running with a 351 built up to approximately a 427 cu in. Then it's just paint, interior and exterior trim.
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