New Cobra buyer - Questions - Driving Them...

[AdamIsAdam]

Originally Posted by patrickt

You can tell from this pic that it has an external fork and hydraulic slave. It's just probably not set up right or the pressure plate was a poor choice. My advice would be not to get in over your head until you get some experience with these cars.

Thanks for the insight. I'm learning as I go. But I'm also not going to wait forever like the owner of this car did. He only got 200 miles on the car before he died.

I am a quick study. And I'm hoping/relying on the kindness of forum friends to help me through the buying process. And the ownership thereafter.

I hope this note comes across the right way. I'm asking for help and very appreciative of any I get.

I was trying to use this Superformance as my benchmark. It drove worse than the FFR I drove, as I said.

Originally Posted by Alfa02

Adam, how long has this 240 mile SPF been sitting? As someone that had a chance to buy a 2001 ERA 427s/o with 6100 miles, that had sat for 10+years, the first 2years the mileage was put on. This ERA leaked everywhere, Motor, Gearbox, Rear end, Brakes, after less then 2-300 miles after being put back in driving cond. Dodged a huge bullet. We have a (2004) 930 mile SPF here in the PNW that I can't find a buyer for 40K because of the same thing (No leak's, but also no miles put on it yet). The owner thought he would make a killing selling a low mileage SPF, he's heartbroken, that he will lose 1000's of dollars rather then driving & enjoying it. Be very careful. P.S. I've driven many SPF all the clutches were light, and easy to use. Cheers Tom.

Tom,
Yes, exactly what I was looking for, a car that's been sitting and developing leaks, etc. I've seen it before as well. I'm not sure exactly how long it's been since the owner died before the nice widow finally decided to sell, but it's a while. She actually said she just had the car gone over to get it ready for sale. I didn't get into what was done, but yes, I agree, when you buy a car that's been sitting, it can be just as expensive to bring up to good working order as a car with high mileage.