08-21-2015, 06:05 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: St. Lucia, West Indies,
WI
Cobra Make, Engine: Unique 427SC 383 stroker
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BAsque1
Hi Ron:
Call me a purist, but in my opinion a Cobra with anything other than Ford in my mind is sacrilegious. No offense to those who have installed any other brand of powerplant.
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No offense taken, all in good fun and certainly no offense intended, but this is what makes me smile about the whole "sacrilegious" thing: Here's a guy with a very nice but big, long, heavy, bulging, solid axle fiberglass car with a cushy custom interior that bears only a loose resemblance to a Cobra claiming to be a Cobra purist because he's running a 427 FE engine. 
Could I then stick an FE into any old 2 seat fiberglass kit like - say - a Devin, slap on a roll bar and side pipes and declare it a Cobra? The West Coast cars are well liked by their owners for the extra size and comfort, but to me a low-slung, lightweight, 90" wheelbase, IRS equipped car with a spartan interior and an accurate looking body is far more "Cobraesque" in spirit and character, regardless of the brand of engine - or transmission for that matter (as long as it's manual) - that the owner chooses to use.
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Last edited by Buzz; 08-21-2015 at 07:49 AM..
Reason: My grammar made me do it
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