Kit Identification .. 1965 427 cobra

[Ron61]

Junk Man,

The originals had 90 inch wheel bases. Some replicas had 92 or 94 inch wheel bases. The perky butt referred to was on early Factory fives, the rear end kind of stuck up instead of being flat and in line with the rest of the car like all of the rest. As for the doors and hoods, no not all of them will fit other bodies. It looks as if you have a good buy there and it should make a great car.

The parking brake handle is on top of the transmission tunnel and I am guessing what looks like a hole to the drivers side of it is where the shifter lever comes up. That is kind of unusual and should help some of the really knowledgeable people identify your car.

Ron

[DanEC]

I doubt it's a home-fabricated chassis - looks too well engineered and welded to me. It has some nice details such as the Jag suspension and they even added trailing arms to stabilize the lower link like ERA does. If the body fiberglass is as thick as you describe I would suspect it's not a particularly light weight replica. It doesn't really have the same perky butt as MK 1 thru III FFR - just looks a little taller body section at the tailight area than originals to me - but overall not bad. Some more correct wheels that fit in the wheel wells would improve it's stance a lot. Looks like it has been around and had quite a few miles on the road too. I would say you got a deal on it.