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Original Cobras on Santa Monica Pier
Just moved to Pasadena 2 weeks ago. My ERA is still in Miami with my wife (and house) while she gets our Miami home sold. Went to Supercar Sunday in Woodland Hills early this morning .. a couple of replica cobras were there and a Ford GT40 pulled in - owned by Marvin Dunn who was involved with the "new" GT40 design for Ford Motor Co for the 2005-06 build. His company made chassis components and the body "in white".
Marvin mentioned that there was a Shelby Fest at the Santa Monica pier and I headed down there. A good collection of performance ford products, new Shelby Mustangs, quite a few replica cobras and replica Brock Coupes. But the stars of the show were 10 orginal cobras. 9 were 289 cars and one original 427 SC in the original gold paint ... it had been repainted Blue and most of the blue was gone. I was amazed at how close my ERA 289 resembles the originals ... engine compartment, trunk, cockpit layout and body. |
Hey Rick,
I'm glad you were able to make it. I'll look for you at SCS as I get down there pretty regular. I was headed to the pier from Kanan and PCH today but got a late start. About 1:30 I found myself putting along in very slow stop and go bumper to bumper traffic down PCH. I still had at least 10 more miles to go before getting to the pier and I gave up. It seemed like everybody was at the beach (great weather and blue skies) and all kinds of stuff happening. Farmers market in Malibu, flags at Pepperdine and cars/people everywhere. I only imagined it was just as bad at the Santa Monica pier too. I'm sorry I missed it. John |
That's 3047 Tony Boosalis aka the Hitman. He's a good Cobra guy driving his cars all over.
Any 289's you can tell us about or snapped a pic of? That's a good welcome to your new neighborhood huh? |
Pics?
Larry |
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