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Thanks Larry. I ordered one of those after the lady told me that it was a chrome item. It was not chrome but rather a piece of aluminum rod stock
that was turned on a lathe with the turning marks still present. The keyhole lock part was separately pressed in but the keyhole was not the right shape. I sent it back. Aluminum does not look like chrome! CSX2047 was my daily driver for five years back in my Navy days in La Jolla so I have memories of that car that I'm trying to replicate in the ERA. The dash layout, the glovebox knob, the gearshift lever with the syringe reverse lockout and other little details on the original car have stuck with me all these years, so I am putting these memories on the ERA. I even got a spare wheel hold down nut in cast aluminum from Mickmate because I distinctly remember that oddball little item! Now I'm pretty close...I think you guys on this site are probably the only ones hip to our little obsession! |
Cool! My boss was born at Naval Air Station North Island. Literally, he is a native Coronadoan. He also owned a 289 Cobra, in the 70's, bought from a guy in the navy stationed in San Diego. Apparently, the guy had a child on the way and needed more sensible transportation for his growing family. My boss bought a station wagon and traded it for the Cobra.
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I was in an F-4 squadron at Miramar during Viet Nam and flew two fighter
tours off the Enterprise. I bought the Cobra in 1968 and sold it in 1973... paid $3200 for the car and sold it for $6000 and thought I made a killing! Just in November 2014 I bought the ERA 289 FIA replica. The ERA is a better car than the 260 Cobra in many ways and looks pretty "real" to boot. Oddly I bought the ERA in San Diego and stayed with an ex-F-4 pilot friend who had been with me when I purchased my original Cobra in 1968 almost 48 years ago! Life is strange! |
Life IS strange! One of the local guys in our Cobra Club was an Air Force F-4 pilot in Viet Nam. Mensching is his name. Retired general of the air guard base here in Tucson. Pilots are all cut from the same cloth!
Also funny, I was digging through my photo collection and found this. I must have copied it from somewhere on the internet. Pretty cool! Larry http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...psemzd6e8h.jpg |
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Would you happen to have met instructors named, David Weiss or Don Kingery? |
Larry...The guy who bought CSX2047 from me in 1973 still has the car and is
trying to sell it. That glovebox shot is one of many pictures from his recent ad on Hemmings. I used that very picture recently to make and install a leather limiting strap on the glovebox lid on the ERA. The squadron parachute riggers made that leather name tag for me and I stuck it on there in 1968 and it sticks there still! The car was British racing green when I sold it and it is now red, but my name tag remains! Seems like yesterday! CompClassics...Those two instructor names don't ring a bell but they were cranking out a lot of flyers through there for the F-8 and F-4 fighter RAGs as NAS Miramar was the west coast fighter base...Fightertown USA they called it. |
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Looks like a fiberglass 50th sold for 229K Sold Inventory | RK Motors Charlotte | Collector and Classic Cars |
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Nice job Jeff, thanks!
Larry |
I fell close on with my guess 8039
My guess 138,000 on 12-18-15 Sold 130,000 With fee 143,000 |
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Feel like I heard alloy fenders as well. ??? Might of had to many cocktails by then. |
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I took delivery my ERA MK II Slabside 289 BRG#3010 on 28 June 2014. After owning a Lone Star factory built 302 car for 12 years the ERA is a pure joy. Not only the original AC Ace style but the ERA build quality and service. As with most things in life you get what you pay for.
Truly a lifetime dream come true! John ERA #3010 Slabside |
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We finished the white one for the (now former) owner and he drove that car everywhere - He custom ordered it from us with the red interior to match exactly what he saw in a Ford showroom (the car) back in the mid 1960's. When we ordered that car and picked it up at SAI it was one of the first CSX 8000's to come from S. Africa Stephen |
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I have never gotten an answer as to why SAI can't replicate the glove box door correctly? Stephen |
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