[DanEC]

Originally Posted by calxen61

I have original Arntz, Contemporary and Unique brochures from early 70. Maybe their first ones. Waited a long time. Finally, I am going to retire and build my Cobra. In putting my plan together color is of course a question. I like Black, Red, White, British Green, Blue, but these are quite common. They say (someone) that a great looking car can be painted any color, an ugly car paint it black. A cobra is great looking, so why don't we see more variety in color. I know alot is to keep the racing tradition, but if these car were popular in the late 60's and 70's, how come we do not see the vibrant colors that were out then like the wild purples, bright greens (I may like that), and others.

thanks

cal

You sound like my parallel universe twin. I also have Cobra brochures for Arntz, Contemporary, Unique and ERA from about 1980. Planned to start one several times but ended up with a couple Corvettes over time. Now, I'm planning to retire and I finally placed a deposit on an ERA street Cobra kit a few months ago as a retirement project. I'm kind of toying with silver - just because of that old copy of a Road & Track magazine I have from 1974 where one of the editors wrote a story about his purchase of a silver 427 street Cobra and did a road test on it.

Don't know about the color but good luck with your plan.