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11-05-2013, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Crawley,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AC427 MkIII of 2004 vintage
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For compound curves I recommend a detailed study of any Playboy centerfold. As for a written explanation of that force of nature....I'll get back to you.....
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11-05-2013, 02:44 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Adelaide,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AP 289FIA 'English' spec.
Posts: 13,152
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Originally Posted by Rick Parker
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Wow! I'd heard whispers of 260mph. Thanks for confirming, Rick. 
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11-23-2013, 09:16 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Cape Town, South Africa/Mainz, Germany,
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Originally Posted by Mark IV
Number one myth is that there is this guy in the UK named "Trevor"
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Thanks for the good laugh! I even have a meanwhile very expensive book from him.
Legend:
It takes only 2 seconds to overtake an other car - at any speed.
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11-24-2013, 08:33 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Allen,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: Werk77 289FIA
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Scratch build 289 FIA see the Scratch builder forum on CC - sold
DRB GT40 MK1 red #49- sold
FF5 Mk4 #7733 302/T5/IRS - dark blue - sold
FF5 MK4 #7812 427/TKO/IRS - Guardsman Blue - sold
FF5 MK4 #8414 501/TKO600/48IDA Ollie the Dragon #91 - sold
FF5 Daytona Coupe 347/TKO/IRS Homage CSX2299 Viking Blue - sold
SPF 2063
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11-24-2013, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Des Moines,
IA
Cobra Make, Engine: Sold my beloved Shelby CSX 4068, Gessford 427 Ford
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My favorite myth is that "all 427 Cobras came with a side-oiler 427..."
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CSX4068, '69 Bronco, '70 BOSS 302, '87 Mustang GT, '08 Roush Trak Pak
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12-01-2013, 11:20 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Des Moines,
IA
Cobra Make, Engine: Sold my beloved Shelby CSX 4068, Gessford 427 Ford
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My second favorite is that any Cobra at all came with Goodyear Billboards...Guys are fighting on other threads about what tire to use and what is correct. I just shake my head...
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CSX4068, '69 Bronco, '70 BOSS 302, '87 Mustang GT, '08 Roush Trak Pak
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12-01-2013, 11:32 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: SoCal,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX #4xxx with CSX 482; David Kee Toploader
Posts: 3,574
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Originally Posted by G-Pete
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Another good one was the guy that explained to me that my car is actually "illegal" and that he knew (for a fact) that everyone is using a loophole to keep them on the road. Said he found out all about it on "the internets" and told me that it's just a matter of time before they catch up with me. Then asked me if I had paid a "gas guzzler tax" like I was supposed to. I just thanked him for the information.
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All that's stopping you now Son, is blind-raging fear.......
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12-01-2013, 02:24 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner of Long Live the Bow tie Contemporary #102 427 Chevy .30 over Merlin heads 11to1, TBI injection
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The myth that is you put a Chevy motor in a Cobra replica it will lower the resale value or make it harder to sell, what a pant load that is.
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12-01-2013, 04:31 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY USA,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Superformance
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Originally Posted by Thor maine
The myth that is you put a Chevy motor in a Cobra replica it will lower the resale value or make it harder to sell, what a pant load that is.
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I can't wait until my Superformance Corvette Grand Sport arrives so I can install the Ford 427 "FE" I have waiting.''
God my first show is gonna be fun!!!!!!
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12-01-2013, 05:37 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner of Long Live the Bow tie Contemporary #102 427 Chevy .30 over Merlin heads 11to1, TBI injection
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Originally Posted by Mark IV
I can't wait until my Superformance Corvette Grand Sport arrives so I can install the Ford 427 "FE" I have waiting.''
God my first show is gonna be fun!!!!!!
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If you are a Ford guy, that is fantastic (the FE is a great motor) but put what you want in your HotRod . |
12-03-2013, 03:31 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Shell Valley
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Originally Posted by Thor maine
The myth that is you put a Chevy motor in a Cobra replica it will lower the resale value or make it harder to sell, what a pant load that is.
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That wouldn't be a myth for me........
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You can put a chebby engine into a Ford body, but it will NEVER be a chevrolet. It also shows you're ignorant, and lack imagination, as in its been done to death as in its not an original idea.
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12-12-2013, 01:22 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Yorba Linda,
CA
Cobra Make, Engine: FFR, V8, Manual Trans, Htr, Wipers, Radio Delete
Posts: 327
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Originally Posted by Thor maine
The myth that is you put a Chevy motor in a Cobra replica it will lower the resale value or make it harder to sell, what a pant load that is.
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So if you're putting in a Chevy, might as well go all the way with mud flaps and a 'coon tail.
Frank
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FFR - V8, Manual Trans, PS, Inop Wipers, No Radio, Gas Mileage so-so
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12-12-2013, 02:02 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner of Long Live the Bow tie Contemporary #102 427 Chevy .30 over Merlin heads 11to1, TBI injection
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Originally Posted by Frank Messina
So if you're putting in a Chevy, might as well go all the way with mud flaps and a 'coon tail.
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I said this on another loop but I think it will fit right in here. To the Ford only in a Cobra crowd, the I want to live the dream crowd, the I have duplicated the correct number of rivets on my scoop crowd, I got the exact color as the team color of the championship season crowd, I have to have Goodyear on my tire crowd, I tracked down the company who made the windshield wipers from 1963 crowd and on and on. To this crowd a Chevy engine in a Cobra replica may be the kiss of death. But to the I am a car guy, I am a HotRod guy, to the it is not what you buy it is what you build guy, to the I want the best performance for my dollar guy, I want the best performance PERIOD guy, To the I am a Chevy guy, to the I want to able to buy parts at my local Advanced Auto guy, to the I am in Australia and GM is the best choice to get by government regulation guy. To all those guy's the Chevy in the Cobra replica is a BONUS.
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12-14-2013, 07:27 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Former owner of Long Live the Bow tie Contemporary #102 427 Chevy .30 over Merlin heads 11to1, TBI injection
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark IV
"The bodies were pounded out by some winos living under a bridge...."
"CSX" stands for Carroll Shelby eXperimental"
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CSX stands for Carroll Shelby Experimental. Footnote: "Carroll Shelby's The Cobra Story" Published 1965 By Carroll Shelby ( the manufacturer of legal record of the Cobra) and John Bentley. PAGE 193. Myth or Fact??? |
12-14-2013, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Leicestershire,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #523, 427 S/O
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Thor maine
CSX stands for Carroll Shelby Experimental. Footnote: "Carroll Shelby's The Cobra Story" Published 1965 By Carroll Shelby ( the manufacturer of legal record of the Cobra) and John Bentley. PAGE 193. Myth or Fact???
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12-14-2013, 02:28 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: No city...only 118 residents in Manter,
KS
Cobra Make, Engine: Cobra Auto Works body, Ron Godell Racecars chassis, 1989 Mustang GT 5.0 HO (converted to carb), W/C T-5, 3.73's in a Ford 9" Traction-Loc.
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Originally Posted by Thor maine
CSX stands for Carroll Shelby Experimental. ?
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It has been my understanding that the X designated cars manufactured for e Xport.
Cheers!
Dugly 
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12-14-2013, 04:33 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Mooresville,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Factory Five chassis/Mr. Bruce slabside
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Gee Thor, that Dale Carnegie course really paid off for you.
John O
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12-14-2013, 05:11 PM
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Join Date: May 2001
Location: California,
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
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Owning a Cobra for me is one of the few things in life that totally makes me a happy person.
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Thank you mdross1
I can attest to this. Going for a 45 mile drive through the foothills is real therapy for me.
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As you slide down the Banister of Life, may the splinters never be pointing the wrong way 
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12-15-2013, 02:13 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Leicestershire,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #523, 427 S/O
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Originally Posted by YerDugliness
It has been my understanding that the X designated cars manufactured for e Xport.
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That's the generally accepted line. The C was a continuation of the A and B series of chassis. Although that seems to have been abandoned with the Mk.III, which should probably have been a D prefix chassis number.
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