Thread: Cobra 427 tool kit.
View Single Post
  #2 (permalink)  
Old 10-25-2021, 05:32 AM
Jim Maxwell Jim Maxwell is offline
CC Member
Visit my Photo Gallery
Original Shelby Owner
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: greensboro, NC
Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 2401 street 289 Cobra and CSX 3288 Street "427" Cobra
Posts: 712
Not Ranked     
Default Toolkit comments
This is a beautiful toolkit. A couple of comments for the seller:
1. The brake bleeder wrench is unlike any I have ever seen in an original Cobra toolkit and unlike the ones Nick Acton currently sells.
2. The tommy bar is unlike any I have seen in an original toolkit.
3. The ferrule on the screwdriver (the metal piece joining the shaft with the handle) is unlike any I have seen in an original Cobra toolkit.
4. I don't see the "BDS" stamp on the pliers. Is it on the other side?
5. Very nice wrenches. I can't see enough detail to completely evaluate them.
6. Nice find on the spring clip for the wrenches.
7. The bag looks very nice. Material is modern and different than the original kit bag.

So, a beautiful toolkit, but not a "Concours" toolkit if the judges know much about the originals.

I base my comments on over 30 years of research on original Cobra tool kits. I currently own 2 original cars and have owned another 2 in the past. I have photographed, measured and documented original Cobra toolkits for decades so I have some experience with them. That is not to say I know everything about them.
Reply With Quote