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Not a lot has changed since the days when every Cobra on the road was "real". I can recall a particularly obnoxious 427-owning surgeon who loudly pointed out that my newly acquired 9-1/2" Halibrands had a couple of spots of casting flash on the inner surface, and therefore were not worthy of being mounted on my car. I wasn't immune from engaging in this kind of semi-good natured banter: I enjoyed heaping abuse on a certain gentleman who went on to become the exalted high poobah of a VERY well known car club because of the phony side pipes on his 289.