Cobra: CSX 3127

[mickmate]

I'm with Ron, I love the street cars as they were. Especially with it being the first narrow hip. The thing is so freakin beautiful it doesn't even look real though.

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by mickmate

I'm with Ron, I love the street cars as they were. Especially with it being the first narrow hip. The thing is so freakin beautiful it doesn't even look real though.

That is one of the reasons Cobras remain classics. One of the most beautiful I've ever seen. It's a great photograph.

[marcocsx3121]

I have to question how CSX3127 became the "prototype" street 427, when my street 427 was CSX 3121. As has been stated, it may have been the first narrow fender car; 3121 had the SC-type wider fenders sans the extra lip on the rear.

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by marcocsx3121

I have to question how CSX3127 became the "prototype" street 427, when my street 427 was CSX 3121. As has been stated, it may have been the first narrow fender car; 3121 had the SC-type wider fenders sans the extra lip on the rear.

Most likely it was whatever chassis was closest to the work area (that was not for a specific customer order)...Something like "we need a chassis to try an experiment, go grab one for me"..........

Bill S.

[computerworks]

Originally Posted by marcocsx3121

I have to question how CSX3127 became the "prototype" street 427, when my street 427 was CSX 3121. As has been stated, it may have been the first narrow fender car; 3121 had the SC-type wider fenders sans the extra lip on the rear.

Like I said earlier, Ned commented:

The first four 427 street Cobras were all shipped by TWA air freight. They were CSX 3101, 3118, 3120, and 3127. The latter (3127) was the only "narrow hip" example, and it was used as a PR car on the Cobra Caravan as well as for display at various dealerships.

Of the first 4, this car was the first of the narrowed-rear hip design

[Historybuff]

I remember seeing what was represented to me to be first street car (smooth hood, no side pipes) at Shelby American's factory in '65. That car was red. Later in Detroit, I was given a ride by a lady driver accompanying the Cobra Caravan, that car was red with white side pipes, but I don't remember if it had a hood scoop (I was too busy trying to fasten the seat belt at 140 mph!).

I can see how a used car dealer would be tempted to pump up the Cobra image with a hood scoop and side pipes but I predict eventually most real CSX2000 and CSX3000 Cobras will be retrofitted color and trim-wise as to how they came out of the factory originally (that means a lot of side pipes and or hood scoops will be tossed out!) or maybe how they were raced in a particular race. Anyway, I wonder how many of the S/C mechanical changes were made on the car in question that you can't see in the pictures or was it just scoop and side pipes?

Also I saw the movie COBRA and try as I might I didn't see a single Cobra in it (I think Stallone was driving some chopped top Merc with a supercharger and maybe nitrous). But I did see a similar black big block Cobra parked in front of a beach house in Malibu so maybe that was Sly's. What a dummy he was for selling it when he didn't need the money...(well, maybe that divorce from Brigette Nielson--who was in the movie COBRA with him-- cost him heavy bread and it had to go...)

[fordracing65]

Solid black is my favorite cobra.