07-02-2006, 09:36 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shelby CSX 4995, Keith Craft built 427 SO
Posts: 1,168
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Originally Posted by Excaliber
When I was a young man...
Bought and old BSA that had been 'chopped' for dirt cheap. Forks extended so far it didn't have front brakes, no foot pegs so you just kind of held your feet up. Backfired through one carb, which would alternate between raw fuel and flames and soon caught my pants on fire. Trying to beat out the flames I ran off the road into the woods, hit a barbed wire fence. I learned a LOT fixing that bike!
Ahhh, the memories of English bikes...  |
Amazing we lived through our teen age days! Ahhh, but the memories! When you think about it, that is all we will have when we are sitting in the old Cobra Lovers Home, telling people "I remember the day...." 
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"The 427 Cobra is easily the highest performance car ever sold for street use. A decent 427 - not the worst, not the best, will go from zero to 100 mph and back down again to zero in less than 14 seconds. All thing considered, you can put together a pretty good argument that the 427 Cobra is the ultimate performance car, judged on any basis you want to name." Taken from; Corvette, The Sensuous American 
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