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Originally Posted by keezling
At a cruise in overheard two men commenting: "that's a homemade Cobra using a VW Vanagan floor pan" (F5). Just wow! I'm speechless...
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How about this one:
Long,long time ago there was a "cruise night" once a month and I'd go when the weather was nice....I met this guy there, super nice guy,he had a very early F5 car, number 46 or 47, the "so called" bad bodies....anyhow, it was a standard by the book build, white w/blue stipes,probably had 20,000+ miles on it and a pretty good crack in the passenger front fender that he covered up with a racing decal........
He was parked next to a trailer queen/show car/almost never driven absolutely perfect Superformance with less than 400 miles on it......it was not only perfect,it was spotless inside and out and everywhere......
As the night goes on,you'd get a group of guys come walking by,you know the type and there is always one guy in the group that is an expert on whatever they are looking at......so these guys come by and they are standing between the 2 cars and the expert loudly proclaims the F5 is an original Cobra and the Superformance is a replica........
Couldn't help myself as myself the owners of the 2 cars were standing nearby, I had to ask the expert to point out to me how he could tell this.......
he said the Superformance had to be a replica cause it had less than 400 miles on it and was and I quote: "TOO PERFECT".....o-k,I said,what about the other car: he said the seats/carpet showed wear and were faded as one would expect,the odometer showed 50 something thousand miles,it had rock chips and a few scratches here and there as one would expect and it just looked like an original to him......
No sooner they left, the Superformance owner went and got his enclosed trailer and brought it nearby, loaded up and left in a cloud of dust......the F5 owner and I had a good laugh about the whole episode......F5 owner could have cared less what anyone thought of his car, he built it to drive and enjoy and that is what he did, it was less than perfect and he didn't care one bit....it had the stock Mustang gauges/EFI engine and was never very clean other than a good wipe down of the car.......
david