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06-08-2013, 01:04 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #523, 427 S/O
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Originally Posted by lovehamr
Spoken like a true Briton!
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11-03-2013, 05:20 PM
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Was going to post this on the recent thread on COB6008 started by SunDude....but thought that Cobra Myths and Legends might be more appropriate.
Bruce Ropner and COB6008 just have to qualify as Legends
I have a story about Bruce Ropner driving COB6008 .... he holds the lap record for Croft racing circuit with a top speed of 70mph and an average of 50mph.
Doesn't sound all that fast?
.....It's the lap record for driving round in reverse gear.... 
Cheers,
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11-03-2013, 08:12 PM
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I heard one. A guy explaining how how fast his cobra was said if he were stopped at idle on the side of the road and you passed him doing 100 mph, he could pull out catch you and be so far ahead you wouldn't be able to see him in one minute.
Sounds cool. With a little math I'm sure we could figure this one out.
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11-04-2013, 04:12 AM
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Originally Posted by xb-60
Was going to post this on the recent thread on COB6008 started by SunDude....but thought that Cobra Myths and Legends might be more appropriate.
Bruce Ropner and COB6008 just have to qualify as Legends
I have a story about Bruce Ropner driving COB6008 .... he holds the lap record for Croft racing circuit with a top speed of 70mph and an average of 50mph.
Doesn't sound all that fast?
.....It's the lap record for driving round in reverse gear....
Cheers,
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That's a good story Glen. I know the recent owner of COB6008, so I ask him if he knows the story and whether he can confirm it. 
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11-04-2013, 04:15 AM
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Originally Posted by CBattaglia
I heard one. A guy explaining how how fast his cobra was said if he were stopped at idle on the side of the road and you passed him doing 100 mph, he could pull out catch you and be so far ahead you wouldn't be able to see him in one minute.
Sounds cool. With a little math I'm sure we could figure this one out.
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That one entirely depends on the road. At best, the Cobra is going to be around a mile ahead by the end of the minute, which would require a dead straight road, in which case, he would still be very much in view.
I think we can probably put that one down as "myth". 
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11-04-2013, 04:33 AM
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The few myths surrounding the Cobra will live on with most. Who amoungst us will take the time to prove them otherwise. I for one like the myths and in no hurry to dispel them. Like owning a Harley Davidson motorcycle owning a Cobra for me is one of the few things in life that totally makes me a happy person. Let these legends and myths live on.
So many of the muscle cars we have owned have their own trail of myths and legends,for that matter how many people do we know that consider themselves legends in their own time.
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11-04-2013, 10:43 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Backdraft 874 solid red Roush 427 small block 515 hp
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Originally Posted by DMXF
Trevor - Brian Angliss is no angel either. For one, he repeatedly lied and misled people for years with his claims that he used the original tooling in making his 427 cars. He may have had a couple trivial patterns and tooling bits, but the bulk of things including the chassis fixtures and body bucks were long gone by the time he got involved - which he even confirmed in an early magazine article interview by the way.
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Still, I think he was one of the first to call after the heart transplant. And so it goes ...
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11-04-2013, 10:53 AM
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I took mine to a club the other day and before I was out of it one excited guy had told me all about how the 427 Cobras could do 0-100-0 in 9.5 seconds and he once got a ride in one of the Daytona Coupes (of which they made only 2!).
I'm always amazed at how these cars reduce grown men to lying sacks of excrement in 2.5 seconds (which is how long they take to get to 60 BTW!) 
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11-04-2013, 02:00 PM
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0 to 60 in 2.5?
Yep, I read that.....somewhere..... 
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11-04-2013, 02:53 PM
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My biggest crackup was the guy that came up and asked horsepower. I told him and he told me "sheesh, the real Cobras have 1,000 hp, I just saw it on TV!"
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11-04-2013, 03:01 PM
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My biggest crackup was the guy that came up and asked horsepower. I told him and he told me "sheesh, the real Cobras have 1,000 hp, I just saw it on TV!"
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11-04-2013, 04:13 PM
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It was funnier the first time. |
11-04-2013, 05:24 PM
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Sorry, must've double-clicked when it wasn't responding.
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11-04-2013, 06:47 PM
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A very stout 260 in 1963 
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11-05-2013, 08:42 AM
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Whatever it was, it was enough to slow the rotation of the earth!!
I've done my research, so I know......this also proves I'm not just a pretty face
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11-05-2013, 09:17 AM
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Number one myth is that there is this guy in the UK named "Trevor"
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11-05-2013, 10:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Trevor Legate
Whatever it was, it was enough to slow the rotation of the earth!!
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Trevor,
I can only assume the car was pointing in the opposite direction and instead of slowing the rotation, actually speeded it up because the days seem to be getting much shorter as I get older.  |
11-05-2013, 11:26 AM
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My biggest crackup was the guy that came up and asked horsepower. I told him and he told me "sheesh, the real Cobras have 1,000 hp, I just saw it on TV!"
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You know certain things i consider myself an ex-expert. But memory is a funny thing and some think they are telling you the truth and have a lack of detail. I say this in a military way...attention to detail. Some are full of it though and I had a lot of trouble telling people what I did not do in the military.
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Whatever it was, it was enough to slow the rotation of the earth!!
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This is a great post. I'm going to write this down. I give credit where credit is due.
Reminds me of my freshman physics class. Ok you are standing on a lake with a coefficient of friction of .0034 xx and you throw a rock with xx force in the direction indicated. How far backward did you slide......
Trevor you are unbelievable you proved Superman did reverse the rotation of the earth. 
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11-05-2013, 01:18 PM
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To correct Lord Muck, I'm not a Myth, I'm a Mythter and it's rude to make fun of my lisp (thank you thank you, I'm here all week)
Any other problems with advanced higher-plane physics - you know where to find me....
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11-05-2013, 01:32 PM
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Trevor,
Just explain compound curves in layman's terms and you're in my book!
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