Mystery solved. Shelby Trust to sell Real Cobras

[patty442]

Sorry worked early and all night last night. A 6 year old child was ejected from a hi-speed MVA . Took quite some time with the neurosurgeons. In answer to Rod's question three months ago, long before the news announcement I had been contacted by two hi-rollers to survey and evaluate for purchase a car, one of each of the Kirkham produced cars and one of Drew's car. I have spoken with Drew extensively in the past as I was aware of this series of cars for a while. I needed time, and still need to talk to David about his project car. Drew has completed one car and currently had four more stamped chassis with substructures fabrication in progress. David obviously can build an excellent car. I have one, and it is great. I have resisted "to make it more original" with real 60's parts. I am adding a pair of SW 240's rather than the two Bendix diff. pumps that are there. The mounting locations are a little off as are the fittings, and wire terminal ends, color of insulators on the terminals and the color of the wires. The mounting hardware also needs attention. I have close to 150 NOS SW 240 pumps in yellow boxes and probably 40 SW coils, switches, filters and gasket kits everything from around 1971 or 72, when I bought out the SW Regional warranty service center in NJ. Same thing happened at Koni when I could convince my Dad that I needed every last set of 427 Cobra Koni Shocks in the country, or in Holland where they were made, along with every spare part they had. They were already obsolete. I had the original March 65 dated original shocks on my car rebuilt at current Koni. They said the shocks tested very well. They should, they only had 1200 miles on them, I said. They said no parts available. I said take' em apart and tell me what you need. I have everything. Ned I will address your inguiry shortly, but read Kopec's article, to gain some insight to answer your inquiry. I am going to discuss with one of the CC members about posting a few pages at a time. Maybe Jamo can help with that. Bob

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by patty442

Sorry worked early and all night last night. A 6 year old child was ejected from a hi-speed MVA . Took quite some time with the neurosurgeons. In answer to Rod's question three months ago, long before the news announcement I had been contacted by two hi-rollers to survey and evaluate for purchase a car, one of each of the Kirkham produced cars and one of Drew's car. I have spoken with Drew extensively in the past as I was aware of this series of cars for a while. I needed time, and still need to talk to David about his project car. Drew has completed one car and currently had four more stamped chassis with substructures fabrication in progress. David obviously can build an excellent car. I have one, and it is great. I have resisted "to make it more original" with real 60's parts. I am adding a pair of SW 240's rather than the two Bendix diff. pumps that are there. The mounting locations are a little off as are the fittings, and wire terminal ends, color of insulators on the terminals and the color of the wires. The mounting hardware also needs attention. I have close to 150 NOS SW 240 pumps in yellow boxes and probably 40 SW coils, switches, filters and gasket kits everything from around 1971 or 72, when I bought out the SW Regional warranty service center in NJ. Same thing happened at Koni when I could convince my Dad that I needed every last set of 427 Cobra Koni Shocks in the country, or in Holland where they were made, along with every spare part they had. They were already obsolete. I had the original March 65 dated original shocks on my car rebuilt at current Koni. They said the shocks tested very well. They should, they only had 1200 miles on them, I said. They said no parts available. I said take' em apart and tell me what you need. I have everything. Ned I will address your inguiry shortly, but read Kopec's article, to gain some insight to answer your inquiry. I am going to discuss with one of the CC members about posting a few pages at a time. Maybe Jamo can help with that. Bob

Bob, you have so much insight into the Cobra it is a shame that it is being buried into an unlreated by subject topic. No search will find your history lesson here. Please consider starting a topic on the historical attributes and then maybe we can keep this topic to the discussion of the Continuation Cobras 2.0.

[patty442]

Tony, should I go to a new thread in the originality forum? Maybe Jamo can confirm and suggest a more appropriate venue? Please Jamo?

[fordracing65]

that would be awesome, a new thread for original owners to spread light on cobras history

[twobjshelbys]

Originally Posted by patty442

Tony, should I go to a new thread in the originality forum? Maybe Jamo can confirm and suggest a more appropriate venue? Please Jamo?

Maybe in the Shelby American forum.

[Joe's Garage]

Originally Posted by fordracing65

that would be awesome, a new thread for original owners to spread light on cobras history

Agree, Bob's tales of history and intrigue have more relevance to those who own ...



Not so much for those, who by comparison, went with a ...



And then try to reverse engineer it back to a ...



Can't be done, you have to start with silk first

[Jamo]

Bob (patty442)...I just started a new thread for you and others to share your wisdom about the original cars. It is a sticky, so you'll always find it at the top of the page. I'm putting here in ALL Cobra Talk so more folks (especially original owners, Shelby folks and SAAC guys) see it and hopefully weigh in.

I prefer it here than putting it in the Shelby American or any other replica mfg's area.*

I can always move it to the Originality Forum once it takes off.



*I chose to get Evan riled up at this time just cuz.

[REAL 1]

Also learned that these cars will be sporting Kress Magnesium wheels. Nice touch but not original. That's what I've been told. They run $6000.00 a set.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by REAL 1

Also learned that these cars will be sporting Kress Magnesium wheels. Nice touch but not original. That's what I've been told. They run $6000.00 a set.

Someone out there is hoarding real, but later generation, Halibrand mags. I missed out on a set many years ago, when someone else purchased all 4 sets from a seller local to me. And I know a couple sets were N-I-B.

Agreed. The Kress wheels are a nice upgrade from Trigos, but not original, nor will they even say "Halibrand" on them.

[RodKnock]

CSBI stock is now trading at $0.24. The stock jumped to $0.25 around June 2nd on alot of volume.

The Resurrection Cobras must be selling very well. And those NOS OEM parts flying off the shelves.

[Bernica]

Wow! I made a staggering $70!

[Jamo]

Damn it, I missed another golden opportunity. Looks like another Apple.

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by Jamo

Damn it, I missed another golden opportunity. Looks like another Apple.

I bought 1,000 shares a few weeks ago just for fun and to maybe get a certificate to hang on the wall.
Yes, I am quite the mover and shaker in the financial circles!

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Bernica

I bought 1,000 shares a few weeks ago just for fun and to maybe get a certificate to hang on the wall.
Yes, I am quite the mover and shaker in the financial circles!

I'm starting to think that there's not alot of money in commercial real estate development.

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I'm starting to think that there's not alot of money in commercial real estate development.

HA! Not to go off too far from topic here, but yes. It is a feast / famine biz like many others including SAI.

Once told my accountant one of my dumb-ass ideas and he told me "Just fly to Vegas and put it all on red. You have better odds!"

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

CSBI stock is now trading at $0.24. The stock jumped to $0.25 around June 2nd on alot of volume.

The Resurrection Cobras must be selling very well. And those NOS OEM parts flying off the shelves.

And the stock just dropped to $0.18, so maybe not so much action on those parts and "NOS cars" yet.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Bernica

And the stock just dropped to $0.18, so maybe not so much action on those parts and "NOS cars" yet.

The stock is so thinly traded that large swings should be expected. It appears that 18,000 shares were traded today. Someone made a "huge" profit in the past several days.

Pump and dump? Or maybe Evan finally got an inventory list and purchased the entire NOS OEM parts inventory from Denbeste?

[Bernica]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

The stock is so thinly traded that large swings should be expected. It appears that 18,000 shares were traded today. Someone made a "huge" profit in the past several days.

Pump and dump? Or maybe Evan finally got an inventory list and purchased the entire NOS OEM parts inventory from Denbeste?

Well, there goes my $70 bucks!
Maybe Denbeste will go public.

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Bernica

Well, there goes my $70 bucks!

Well, this just goes to show you that you shouldn't give up your day job to become one of those lazy do-nothing day-trading shareholders that create no concrete products and provide no viable services.

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I'm starting to think that there's not alot of money in commercial real estate development.

Guess you missed the buy of IPA at $11.50 back in the late 80's