Please help me identify this Cobra!

[mrmustang]

Disclaimer: I'm going to be blunt with my response below

Originally Posted by jayhawk261

Are you personally familiar with one of these "junk" cars? Have you reviewed the actual chassis layout and how it is put together? What do you feel is wrong with the front suspension?

Just curious if you have first hand knowledge of this specific car or the manufacturer, or if you are basing your statements directly on the pictures (no longer) shown here. I have not seen them, so I can't comment.

I have seen similar cars in my travels, spent enough time working in the race/speed business to have a good understanding of what front and rear suspensions work, and what do not. This particular car had a front suspension that was a combination of Chevy Chevette, and over the counter control arms, a combination that upon looking at the pictures, was not well thought out, same goes for the brake set up from what we could see in the pictures. Rear suspension was more set up to "tub" the rear possibly with drag racing in mind, more than it was to actually drive the car safely and comfortably on the street (forget the track for this car). The frame rails were not substantial enough (for outriggers they would have been fine, but not as a main rail and screamed homemade/home designed) to safely support the front to rear subframe tie in, and would have needed to be replaced. The flat plywood (roughly 2 feet by 5 feet in size)filler panel between the two main rails was part of that critique. Then again, the more I thought about it, the more it screamed home built/home engineered chassis, with someones 3rd party body on top of it. Again, a money pit in the making as the new owner (if he bought it, which it appears he may have) will have to sink a lot more money into it to make it safe for the track or the street than it would have cost to buy a better designed and built car as a turn key. Of course this was all based on some poorly taken, not well lit pictures, but enough of the details were shown that to me at least it said RUN, FOREST, RRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUNNNNN!!!!


Hope you find this helpful.


Bill S.

PS: Just because someone can weld, does not always mean that the can properly engineer a chassis.