London Cobra Show 2012 raffle car

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Original: single racing screen, different gauges, different fonts on fenders, different fenders at the rear, no jacks, bigger meat balls and bigger numbers, old style black bonnet latches, additional passenger mirror, black grille, 15" wheels (seems that on this car are 16" wheels?), additional bonnet center safety clamp, bonnet pop rivets, drivers cut out door, 7 switches on additional alloy dash panel, brake scoops not that far to the center, additional gas cap alloy framing etc.

No doubt it is a fantastic car.

Mine will have many many faults too, it begins with the wrong engine :-).
It's just a budget limited version.

Cheers
Migge

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Originally Posted by migge

Original: single racing screen, different gauges, different fonts on fenders, different fenders at the rear, no jacks, bigger meat balls and bigger numbers, old style black bonnet latches, additional passenger mirror, black grille, 15" wheels (seems that on this car are 16" wheels?), additional bonnet center safety clamp, bonnet pop rivets, drivers cut out door, 7 switches on additional alloy dash panel, brake scoops not that far to the center, additional gas cap alloy framing etc.

No doubt it is a fantastic car.

Mine will have many many faults too, it begins with the wrong engine :-).
It's just a budget limited version.

Cheers
Migge

Racing screen: OK, we wanted whoever won it to be able to drive it on the street, so it's got a windshield

Gauges: I've never seen a picture of the original's dash that was close up enough to see the gauges, so I don't know. The layout is same as the original.

Fenders: Original had slabside front fenders, raffle car has slabside front fenders...what's different? Rear fenders are the same as the original when it was it belonged to Coventry Motors. Shelby apparently flared them out some more later.

No jacks: Original did not have front quickjacks when raced by Allen Grant. They were added after the car went to Shelby.

Meatballs & Numbers: From all the pics I've seen, they're the same.




Mirrors, latches, and pop rivets: Yeah, those are different.

Black grille: ??? Neither the original or the replica have a grille

Wheels: Nobody makes real knock-off kidney bean wheels in 15". I don't know why...

Doors: Both the original and the replica DO NOT have cut-back doors, despite the text on the Shelby museum page.

Switches: Original had additional panel with 7 switches, replica has additional panel with 7 switches. They're even labeled with an old-school Dymo labels.

Brakes scoops: Looking at the pictures above, you're right.

Gas cap: Splash guard was added after going back to Shelby.

Raffle car doesn't have the flat-head Cobra badges like the original - anyone know where we can get some???


Pete

[Thieleng]

Beautiful car and extremely well done, I bought my 10.

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First, again: it's a great car.

Racing screen: OK, we wanted whoever won it to be able to drive it on the street, so it's got a windshield
Yes you are right.

Gauges: I've never seen a picture of the original's dash that was close up enough to see the gauges, so I don't know. The layout is same as the original.
See pic:

Fenders: Original had slabside front fenders, raffle car has slabside front fenders...what's different? Front fender extentions, where the decals were located
Rear fenders are the same as the original when it was it belonged to Coventry Motors. Shelby apparently flared them out some more later. No, see picture:

No jacks: Original did not have front quickjacks when raced by Allen Grant. And no rear jacks, see pic.
They were added after the car went to Shelby.

Meatballs & Numbers: From all the pics I've seen, they're the same. They have to be bigger, see pic.

Mirrors, latches, and pop rivets: Yeah, those are different.

Black grille: ??? Neither the original or the replica have a grille, When yellow it had one, see pic

Wheels: Nobody makes real knock-off kidney bean wheels in 15". I don't know why...

Doors: Both the original and the replica DO NOT have cut-back doors, despite the text on the Shelby museum page. Yes the car has, see pic

Switches: Original had additional panel with 7 switches, replica has additional panel with 7 switches. They're even labeled with an old-school Dymo labels. I can only see 6 on the replica

Brakes scoops: Looking at the pictures above, you're right.

Gas cap: Splash guard was added after going back to Shelby. Don’t mean a splash guard, see pic

Raffle car doesn't have the flat-head Cobra badges like the original - anyone know where we can get some??? When yellow it had the later emblem, when back to Shelby it was the flat-head Cobra, don’t know the reason, see pic

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OK, I stand corrected. Great pics migge! I wish there were some more of the grille - I don't think I've ever seen one quite like that.

One other difference between the original and the raffle car - the raffle car has about 100 more HP!

Pete

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Pete,

Not my pics just a time intensive search on the net and old publications :-)

I think it's just the normal grille in black.

Cheers
Migge