Replica or a modern reproduction?

[ERA2076]

Originally Posted by Ralphy

Look I'm just as caught up in this as any. But the Shelby I know? He was a racer, a racer who wanted to win and win at the big show. He built street cars to fund his racing, even in the early sixties. ...... in this sense of the word even a sixties street version, is "A Replica."

................Don't we all love Shelby's history?

It didn't take long

[Ralphy]

Damn that's a nice car. I love the blacked wheels!
He may have done some underhanded things. But ya gotta love the guy!

Originally Posted by ERA2076

It didn't take long

Ralphy

[ERA2076]

CSX2001 - what he had in mind all along -

Shelby Cobra CSX 2001-The First Production Cobra

[hectorturer]

Originally Posted by ERA2076

It didn't take long

Nice car!, Is a Factory Five, BD, CXS or a Fakeydoo?

[ERA2076]

First production
First race car
Raced - Survived
Different colors over the years
Different mechanical over the years

A Cobra -

chr

[REAL 1]

And a replica of CSX2000.

Yes, Hectorter, it is a CSX too.

[ERA2076]

Come on now - you know as well as I Shelby could have cared less about building street cars. Homologation was an evil of racing FIA GT. He hated it as much as every other GT manufacturer and they all tried to skirt it. They would much rather have been allowed to treat construction like the prototypes. The car did not matter. Remington thought they were piles of **** - Crappy steering, crappy geometry, crappy chassis. IMO Shelby would have tried a wheel barrow if he could have gotten someone to give him one. They were racers at the right place and time with amazing will and considerable luck.

Observer => "Is it a real one?"

Owner => "Real what?"

C7 != C2

They are both recognized as Vettes.



I can not wait to get my non-Shelby Cobra Replica POS running. Thank God it is not remotely close mechanically to a 64 Cobra - it is destined for the track and its performance will do the talking one way or the other and guys that build track stuff will enjoy it and I seriously doubt there will be one that does not recognize it as a Cobra

chr

[buddyg]

Originally Posted by ERA2076

I can not wait to get my non-Shelby Cobra Replica POS running. Thank God it is not remotely close mechanically to a 64 Cobra - it is destined for the track and its performance will do the talking one way or the other and guys that build track stuff will enjoy it and I seriously doubt there will be one that does not recognize it as a Cobra

chr

That's an excellent point. Irregardless of what SAAC says or that SAAC kool aid drinking Real1 says the general population will see the car and know it's a Shelby Cobra. If there's no one around to explain to them any different that will be what they think and they will love it.