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Originally Posted by Dwight
Cobra should have a 289 or 302 or 351 or FE.
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I suppose they should also have IRS, a 90" wheelbase and a proper, low-slung stance like the originals. To me, an accurately shaped and proportioned body with any brand American V8, IRS, manual trans and a single roll bar better replicates a Cobra than the stretched, raised, bulged and otherwise sedan-ized examples out there.
There are plenty cars with a historical legacy of race wins and impressive street performance, but it is all that
plus the look of the Cobra that makes it so iconic. Slapping badges, a hood scoop, roll bars and sidepipes on a vaguely cobraesque kit and powering it with a Ford derived engine does not capture the essence in all its totality.
Its just more pandering to polarized, divisive brand marketing than anything else - "Ford rules, Chevy sucks, blah blah blah." Both brands (and Pontiac and Mopar) produce(d) great and not so great cars, regardless of what we've been conditioned and programmed to believe (or admit).
Drive a good Cobra with a Brand X V8 and you wouldn't know the difference without looking under the hood (notwithstanding the FE whisperers who can tell by the feel and sound
), but show me one with bizarre proportions and a jacked up stance and the difference kicks me right in the nuts from half a block away.
To each his own and I love a pure, meticulously correct, FE powered 427 Replica as much as the next enthusiast, but it's the liberties with the look and dynamics that ruin it for me. I also respect the newer Cobra convert who is attracted to the hobby but wants more legroom, comfort, safety and bling, but I rail against the notion that their cars are more accurate just because they have a Ford powerplant - especially since most of them are Windsor based strokers in a car with 427 badges.
Just my take and all in good fun
