What's the deal with Slabside pricing and availability?

[Kit Coyle]

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!

[LMH]

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.
Larry

[Kit Coyle]

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!

[LMH]

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

[CompClassics]

Kit

Would you happen to have met instructors named, David Weiss or Don Kingery?

[Kit Coyle]

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.

[legenmetals]

Originally Posted by 1985 CCX

Me first......

CSX8039 - $138,000

CSX2495 - $965,000 with no sale

CSX8004 - $112,000

Looks like a fiberglass 50th sold for 229K

Sold Inventory | RK Motors Charlotte | Collector and Classic Cars

[66gtk]

Originally Posted by legenmetals

Looks like a fiberglass 50th sold for 229K

Sold Inventory | RK Motors Charlotte | Collector and Classic Cars

Asking price isn't sale price, and when it comes to professional consignors "sold" isn't always what it may seem to be.

[1985 CCX]

I certainly hope it did .......😀

[mrmustang]

Originally Posted by 66gtk

Asking price isn't sale price, and when it comes to professional consignors "sold" isn't always what it may seem to be.

In this case csx8983 has not been registered as sold with SAAC, you would think the new owner would want to preserve the cars history with no missing time

[1985 CCX]

Update

The eBay unit is longer Cobra style.

[1985 CCX]

Another angle

[LMH]

Nice job Jeff, thanks!
Larry

[1985 CCX]

I fell close on with my guess 8039
My guess 138,000 on 12-18-15
Sold 130,000
With fee 143,000

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by 1985 CCX

I fell close on with my guess 8039
My guess 138,000 on 12-18-15
Sold 130,000
With fee 143,000

Didn't you like the bit about how it had an original Cobra engine?

[1985 CCX]

It was a nice touch.
Feel like I heard alloy fenders as well. ???
Might of had to many cocktails by then.

[Mark IV]

Originally Posted by 1985 CCX

It was a nice touch.
Feel like I heard alloy fenders as well. ???
Might of had to many cocktails by then.

They said something about alloy and then went back to saying "composite"

[desgros@vtlink.]

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

[stephen_becker]

Originally Posted by twobjshelbys

Two slabsides are on the docket at Barrett Jackson Scottsdale 2016

Continuation
1965 SHELBY COBRA 289 CSX8039 ROADSTER - Barrett-Jackson Auction Company - World's Greatest Collector Car Auctions

And an original
1965 SHELBY 289 COBRA ROADSTER CSX2495

Another continuation
1965 SHELBY COBRA CSX 8000 ROADSTER

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

[stephen_becker]

Originally Posted by jon@harrison.ne

I find it unbelievable that they can't get the dash right on the continuation cars. I know it's hard to find the original charge indicator light, although I found a few, but the glove box door is the wrong shape and the knob incorrectly placed, the drop of the lower edge is wrong,....

It has been noted many times to SAI / The HST-built cars (Mexico) had better glove box looks then what is presently available.

I have never gotten an answer as to why SAI can't replicate the glove box door correctly?

Stephen