07-24-2012, 05:37 PM
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Abnormal CC Member
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Pottstown (East Coventry),
PA
Cobra Make, Engine: Don't think I'll be getting a Cobra for a long time... Do have '94 RX-7 R2.
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Originally Posted by Historybuff
..thought it was that car. That back at the first SAAC convention. That car was driven from Colorado so it must have been set up to be pretty reliable.
I remember seeing a picture in a book of a SOHC 427 lying on the floor in some shop in the Sixties with Cobras being fabricated in the background. Could that have been the engine they were going to put in the Daytona coupe being built in Italy for the big block? I don't have the book I saw the picture in, and maybe it was some Stateside shop after all. I never read any quotes of Shelby saying it was a great engine or had potential beyond the regular 427 FE side oiler. Maybe they were exceedingly hard to get in the Sixties unless you were a drag racer.
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Wally this car could not have been at the first SAAC convention. It is a continuation car finished in 2008.
I don't think SOHC engines were hard to get in the 60s. They were just expensive. And you cannot don't just drop them into a Cobra without modifications (footboxes, etc.).
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